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[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago (3 children)

And facebook tells its users to vote. Encouraging people to make their voices heard and engage in the democratic process is a good thing.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I'd say absolutely, if Cambridge Analytica wasn't a thing. I'd honestly rather have people not vote than be motivated to go vote because they think the liberal communists are putting fluoride in water to make frogs gay.

It's somehow always the organizations and individuals who are trying to manipulate people that seem to care the most about people's voices being heard in politics. Churches, social media, daytime TV, that crazy uncle you don't like to talk to at family gatherings...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Hey some of us are the crazy cousin saying you should vote while also advocating pissing on the floor when your job tries to deny bathroom rights.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I'd prefer to have you as my cousin instead of the one I have who hates brown people and believes Trump won the 2020 election.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

Only if ya can deal with ranting about how modern cars suck due to overuse of electronics and half crazed rants about guns and how we should bring back neighborhood militias.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago

"Vote to participate in democracy! Here's some local voting resources"

vs

"Vote to protect our interests! Tell your representative that they are killing free speech if they don't listen to me"

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

An enemy state giving kids a script of nonsense to harass politicians with is absolutely not a good thing.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Rival is better than enemy, but yes. We're as friendly with China as we are enemies. It's complicated, but I don't want the simple version to be the narrative.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

They're not a rival. They're a hostile power.

We are both dependent on each other because that's how the global economy works, but we are not friends and there is no possible path to friendship unless one of our countries has an extremely bloody revolution and completely changes our mechanism of government.

Our core ideologies are not compatible.