• JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    Hm… it’s almost like if you want change, you need to vote. Sitting out or spoiling your vote doesn’t do much more than literally nothing.

    Who knew? Apparently all it needed was a little pain and chaos, the loss of healthcare, snap, LGBT rights, a felon in the Whitehouse ignoring congress and the judiciary, a stacked supreme court, a govt shutdown, unemployment. Inflation, high grocery prices, extrajudiciary assassinations of foreign nationals, coercion of foreign policy, open interference in another countrys elections, censorship of the media, restarting of nuclear tests, literal demolition of parts of the office of the executive branch, …

    But I’m sure all of that was only a distraction from what was really happening.

    Now, where are those Epstein files?

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      The thing is Mamdani and others have put in the work to get the attention of voters that normally don’t care. His platform was more universally liked and was viewed as the person trying to get people what they needed instead of just being another “lesser evil”. If the Dems want more of that, then they need more like him and less like Biden, Hillary, and Harris. Establishment Dems won’t get this kind of turnout.

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      Who knew that when trustworthy politicians with real change proposal participate the turnout increase. Which most countries lack right now

    • butwhyishischinabook@piefed.social
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      Yeah it’s amazing that people go out and vote when, you know, there are actually primaries and the Democratic Party runs candidate that the constituencies actually want. Who could have known?