claim 1: “voting doesn’t change anything”

Never forget the recent case of Kris Mayes, who refuses to uphold the Arizona supreme court’s sweeping ban of abortion.

Kris Mayes only won her 2022 election by 280 votes. Voting changes things.

claim 2: “but genocide joe”

Yep. Hold that fucker’s feet to the fire. He has blood on his hands

But trump has promised to be indisputably worse.

I won’t tell you how to vote. I just encourage you to vote. You’re not radical for ditching the only miniscule right the state has granted you to do some small aid for your neighbors.

  • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
    3·
    6 months ago

    if people on the left refuse to vote because both candidates are terrible, and people on the right are going to come out in droves for God King Trump

    You don’t even need that much. With the proper electoral split, Trump could win with an little as 42% of the popular vote.

    But that’s a structural problem. And it’s a proven perpetuated by those centrist voters happy to see elections break whichever way they lean.

    Convincing someone who isn’t going to vote to vote for you is 1 vote, convincing someone who would have voted for your opponent to vote for you is 2 votes.

    Not by the math of the electoral college.

    • CileTheSane@lemmy.ca
      2·
      6 months ago

      None of that changes the fact that convincing someone voting for your opponent to vote for you instead is more valuable than convincing someone who isn’t voting to vote for you.