Seriously though people please vote! Yes, the National ballots are nearly worthless. But you still need to vote for your local City/School/County boards! Your local reps are the people making the decision to sign a flock contract, allow zoning for a data center, and many other things that impact your community. Depending on your state local reps may be elected in the June primary and/or the November election. Please look at your sample ballot on your states Secretary of State website or go to vote411 to see who’s on your ballot.
Certainly we all have much more control at the local level. I even feel confident I could move the needle a little at the state level because I have. The federal level though? Not a chance.
Anyone else notice that when school started letting out that their comments started getting downvote-bombed?
Tankies fuckin telling on themselves, lol.
I still can’t get over the fact that, in my party, the idea that someone might not have voted because of a genocide generates more anger and resentment than the party leaders being openly complicit in a genocide does.
I already give any democrat a free ‘harm reduction’ vote so I’ll be damned if they’re going to guilt trip me for being pro-Palestine and anti-genocide on top of it,
I still can’t get over the fact that, in my party, the idea that someone might not have voted because of a genocide generates more anger and resentment than the party leaders being openly complicit in a genocide does.
Because we already know Evil is going to vote pro-Evil. Trying to convince a member of the KKK to vote for a Democrat is a waste of time.
It’s when Good decides they’re not going to vote for Lesser Evil that we question their sanity.
I already give any democrat a free ‘harm reduction’ vote so I’ll be damned if they’re going to guilt trip me for being pro-Palestine and anti-genocide on top of it,
Then you’re not the target of the aforementioned guilt-trip (from the reasonable people among us), so what’s the fuss? Obviously Zionists aren’t going to like that you’re pro-Palestine; why do you care what Zionists think?
Blue when in power: But boo hoo we are so powerless we cannot undo any of these anti-trans laws red put in place.
This meme also applies to the mls asking people to sit out
Obamacare?
We need to do a better job of holding them accountable, but it’s clear to me that is easier to do with our freedom of speech intact.
Gotta love the schordinger leftist, simultaneously responsible for the Dems loosing and not significant enough for Dems to pander to.
Most people are completely uninformed and just think Republicans = better economy. In the last election the people who sat out or voted 3rd party caused all of this with Trump, because apparently ruin all research including children’s cancer research, gutting USAID, removing environmental protections and ruining the world while getting into 4 wars, while supporting Israel, is not worth voting for someone who supports Israel. Anyone who didn’t vote in 2024 is in great part responsible for all the deaths in ukraine as well.
I love being a pawn in your attempt to stomp out class consciousness
Liberals don’t have the stomach to attack fascists. Much easier to attack the left.
I would hate it so much if the left proved me wrong and actually did something, man, please don’t become politically relevant and improve the world, oh noooooo
Gotta spend all their time whining about how nothing gets better, but also whine about the awful shit the right does. Can’t do any compromising, because purity politics is best politics. Who cares if the person you hate worse wins, at least you didn’t vote for someone you hate!
The left should publish a “restore democracy 2026” plan or something. Then, they’d have a roadmap.
Hey they got 4 candidates out of checks notes over 300 democrats, so they basically can’t stop winning.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/09/19/kamala-harris-book-trans-athletes-00573966
Maybe don’t use an issue where the Blue capitalist lap dogs are moving closer to the position of the Red capitalist lap dogs every day to illustrate your ridiculous point that the Blue capitalist lap dogs are somehow preferable?
Maybe try immigration!
https://theintercept.com/2024/11/07/harris-trump-election-immigration-border/
https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/senate-bill/4361/text
Ooops!
Well I’m sure you’ll find something! Good luck!!
Maybe find 2 issues that are not the most divisive issues ever even among democrats and there will be a point there.
E: oh a bill about trying to stop the fentanyl crisis, one of the most contentious issues. True she’s basically a fascist at this point.
https://news.gallup.com/poll/691454/two-thirds-prefer-birth-sex-ids-athletics.aspx
Oooops im totally out of touch with the electorate but it’s the candidate’s fault for not doing the opposite of what people electing them want 😂
Just checking in: has ‘vote blue no matter who’ been working well for you folks the last few elections? Last time I seem to remember dropping trans messaging since it was a perceived liability and trotting out Liz Cheney.
Fuck your genocide party and fuck the GOP. Our differences are not reconcilable. I’m not interested in a party run by liberal capitalists.
Avg ml user both sidesing 70k foreign brown people killed under Biden vs the 1.3 million foreign brown people already sentenced to death by Trump’s climate-denying-GHG-acceleration policies (in the first year of his term):
They say this with a straight face. You just need to ask who was in charge when roe v wade was overturned and what was the response to try to save important hard fought rights.
But no, it’s the people trying to hold power accountable that is the problem.
Come on that’s not even a hard one. Congress was split, not enough votes to break fillabuster, meaning Dems didn’t have enough votes to codify Roe after the conservative Supreme Court, thanks to Trump 1, repealed it.
To fix the Supreme Court would take a supermajority which is unlikely. Codifying Roe will take much less. They should have done it during the Obama years when they held a fillabuster proof majority.
If you want to undo the system you should at least have a basic understanding of how it works
Voting is basic harm reduction, people advocating against voting are doing the GOP’s work for them and should be mocked.
Voting has nothing to do with harm reduction you twit. Harm reduction is mutual aid and community organizing in direct action that actually fucking stops the harm from happening.
Throwing your vote into a hat and hoping for the best doesn’t do shit to actually prevent or stop harm from happening. It just lets people pretend they actually got off their ass and did something.
https://www.indigenousaction.org/voting-is-not-harm-reduction-an-indigenous-perspective/?amp=1
Not voting led to Trump, who is objectively more harmful. Elections have consequences, vote, you muppet.
Tell me you didn’t read the article without telling me you didn’t read the article.
I did read the article. “Everything’s fucked, bury me!” would have been more succinct, and offers just as many solutions. Voting, unlike a magical revolution, actually exists, and actively refusing to exercise political power to create change makes you a moron.
Wow you are incredibly dim if that is what you interpreted. No wonder you are the way you are with media literacy that abysmal. Again, I’m doubting that you even actually read the article.
Both sides da same, got it
Same billionaire owners, same entrenching of corruption, same imperialist agenda, same pro-genocide policies, same presidential names in the Epstein files. Both parties strengthen capitalist exploitation and maintain white supremacist, imperialist patriarchy.
At the core of it, the Democratic party is a tool for the Epstein class and a highly effective mask. Having a token liberal social policy lends legitimacy to a corrupt system, deflates pressure to change, and maintains billionaire control, while serving nothing of value to working people and leaving capitalism unchallenged.
Seriously: fuck your party. Why should working people get in line and vote for you? They continue to not show up because they are disenfranchised as a foregone conclusion before they walk into the voting booth.
Yeah sure no difference between the two. Mamdami = Trump same guy really.
“Then they came for me - and there was no one left to speak for me.”
It is astounding to me as an adult learning just how little people actually understood that poem.
the funny part about this ‘blue no matter who’ post is that it is specifically about trans people and all of the comments are about tankies. either way, you’re expected to vote for gavin newsom, right?
I’m expecting people to organize and vote in the primaries instead of hopelessly bitching about an outcome they can help prevent. Exercise your political power, dammit!
@Godric You are so obsessed with MLs. You post about this issue so often that I see you complaining about it way more than I see MLs saying that voting is useless.
ML’s, anarchists, anyone of the left pretty much.
Dude is the poster child for “dumb centrist reactionary”
I know it’s a meme, but I honestly would not be surprised to learn he works for the CIA or another 3 letter agency.
You caught me, Kash Patel is paying me in whisky and hookers to mock leftwingers who don’t vote.
Advocate against gaining political power
Have no political power
I encourage every leftist to actually go out and do something instead of waiting for the revolution to magically appear and fix everything.
I encourage you to go touch grass for once in your life.
Yet another straw man.
One of the main things I’ve learned about tankies is they despise elections. Tankies are just conservatives in normal people’s clothing. They are pathological liars and gish-gallopers who will say anything to dissuade the normal people from engaging in any form of democracy.
You should be careful around flames with all the straw men you’ve constructed.
You should be careful around progressives who see right through conservative lies.
See ‘bloomaga, both sides same’ meme in my feed
Post meme ridiculing that stupidity
Call me a reactionary; I react to “both sides same” clowns with mockery and derision!
Yes, you are a reactionary.
I’m curious if you have any interests besides political memes that cause the leftist infighting ya’ll seem to hate so much.
Wild comment on the political memes community on a pretty much exclusively left website.
II think I just get find it odd that the only times I see them on my feed it’s them whining about people not doing what they want politically. Like damn dude do you have anything else going on? Do you ever just talk about movies or games you like? Their profile pic being that colorful blob makes them hard to miss.
I have the person you’re responding to tagged as ‘Thinks Kamala is worse than Trump’… so… do with that what you will.
? I’m curious what I’ve ever said to get that tag.
I scrolled through around 5 months of comments I made and I don’t think I saw anything that even implied Harris is worse than Trump. I’ve talked shit about both options and both parties so this has to be “Anyone that didn’t support Harris must automatically love Trump” which is just the same shit conservatives think.
“Just shut up and take your bullet like Che did!”
Obligatory Simpsons meme
I’ll take “we can’t govern”, please.
I remember when those Republican banners were satire rather than reality.
No you don’t, you just remember when they knew how to hide it better.
Satire is just reality put bluntly.
