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[–] [email protected] 34 points 2 days ago (7 children)

One of those things where both

  1. Nonvoters who complain that Democrats aren't doing enough to protect them are exactly the kind of entitled twats who attack what meagre defenses we have against fascism, and then whine (blaming those same defenses they themselves worked to undermine) when fascism attacks them.

AND

  1. Dems who do nothing in this period are inex-fucking-scusable, if predictably adhering to their norms-based civility politics schtick which plays so well with suburban white folk; and Dems in general are only interested in reform insofar as public opinion forces them to support it, and not an inch further.

are true.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Libs still imagining that voting matters. Not where I live. Not where most people live.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 days ago (9 children)

I'm just gonna leave this here: https://www.gregpalast.com/trump-lost-vote-suppression-won/

There is evidence to support widespread vote suppression is occurring by "vigilantes" knocking people off the voter registry amongst other tactics

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 days ago (3 children)

A third of the eligible voters didn't vote. If they had, this tiny marginal bullshit wouldn't matter.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

Assuming that the third would be biased toward one candidate rather than being probably just as evenly divided as those that did vote.

We know the restrictive voting laws were biased. We do not know that the "didn't bother to vote" has the same bias.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 days ago (1 children)

While some people don’t vote out of apathy, others are a target of indirect disenfranchisement that prevents the working poor from voting.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 days ago

The results at my last city vote was depressing. We had 20% turn out. Twenty! And we have mail-in by default here

Thankfully the people who did vote voted for the positive changes we need but it's not hard to imagine how easily 20% of the population can be easily swayed

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