• ganbramor@lemmy.world
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      3 days ago

      If you saw someone about to get raped on your sidewalk, and you just went inside without defending them or calling 911, don’t you realized you helped FACILITATE the rape? Not voting is facilitating the other votes to matter more.

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          Correct, but you can make the “better side” votes count more than the “worse side” votes by participating. Sitting on your couch and not absolutely includes you in fault of the worse side winning, just like the rape scenario you didn’t comment on.

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      3 days ago

      I and many others have tried to explain this to you people so many times that I don’t have the patience for it anymore, so I’m not going to take the bait.

      But you’re wrong.

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        I and many others have tried to explain this

        And you all fail every time because you’re just wrong

        Tell me, the millions of people who didn’t vote in California, who did they “vote” for by being silent, given the fact the electoral votes of that state went Dem, as everyone knew would happen?

        If non-voters are equally as responsible as voters (a stupid notion to begin with but let’s roll) then you have to take into account where those voters were or you’re obviously just looking to blame people

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              Don’t worry, you can take the path of the president you didn’t vote for, yet helped elect and deny responsibility for your own actions. Like at work when they ask you if you’d rather work all weekend without pay or with pay, and you don’t want to work the weekend at all so you just let everyone else decide for you. It may not be the best move, but it’s the best move you can bring yourself to commit to.

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                2 days ago

                I’m only responsible for my own actions, just as everyone else is responsible for theirs

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                  True enough, and while I personally believe that anyone who has an opinion (and an opportunity to act on it to avoid a collapse of the society they participate in) and fails to act on it is acting irresponsibly, it really doesn’t matter what I think, and it shouldn’t matter to you. Yet if you come into a politically charged and admit to being proud to have not voted, I suspect you expected some judgement to come at you.

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                    if you come into a politically charged and admit to being proud to have not voted

                    that didn’t happen. you’re making leaps of logic.

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        you don’t know that the nonvoters aren’t doing something, possibly something even more effective than voting. at least you seem to be acknowledging that they’re likely good people, anyway.

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          They should at least give us a sign, that they are doing something, by now, I mean, would appreciate that, hope is needed now, more than ever, not?

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            given the vitriol I’ve seen here, I don’t know why they would want to talk to Democrats at all

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              those damn democrats, yelling about how tmurp’s going to destroy the country, then telling everyone who voted for them they voted for a guy who’s destroying the country. Damn their eyes, don’t they see that our symbolic gesture made us feel like we were above it, all the way until inauguration day?