• wewbull@feddit.uk
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    7 days ago

    God the cynicism in this thread is depressing.

    You know why your vote doesn’t matter? …because you talk yourself out of getting of your lazy ass and using your vote.

    • dubs@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      7 days ago

      No, our votes do matter, but in only very tiny ways that the people in power ignore when it is convenient.

    • UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml
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      7 days ago

      You know why your vote doesn’t matter

      Electoral college and First-past-the-post voting.

      This is where I would usually post videos on the flaws of First-past-the-post voting alongside videos going over alternative voting systems with no spoiler effect.

      Those days have passed us by. Good luck everyone.

    • technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      Effectively many votes don’t matter at all, but it might be worthwhile to vote on certain topics. This isn’t cynicism, it’s just reality.

      So I usually vote on a few things but it’s not a delusional, nationalist religion to me.

    • pelespirit@sh.itjust.worksOP
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      7 days ago

      People have to ask themselves why there are so many on here trying to get people to not vote. Why would anyone go out of their way to go online in comment after comment, and say it’s useless? They have to make an effort to do this. Hmmmm.

      • DarkFuture@lemmy.world
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        7 days ago

        They’re a mix of crybaby idiots and foreign agents/bots.

        And the vast majority come from .ml and .dbzer0. You can almost set your watch to it.

        There is no excuse not to vote. Democracy is more important than these whiny bitches telling people that there’s no point in voting.

        • UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml
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          7 days ago

          Welcome to a tutorial on how to block .ml on your personal account.

          In the top right corner of the top of the page, there are 3 horizontal white bars. Click it.

          This will open up a drop down menu. At the bottom of that menu, you will see your username. Click it.

          This will open another drop down menu with 3 options. Click “Settings”.

          At the top of your screen you will see 2 tabs. Click the one that says “Blocks”.

          Here you will see “Block user” “Block community” and “Block instance”. Click the down arrow below “Block instance”.

          This will open up a search bar. Type “lemmy.ml” and click it after it shows up. That’s it! You’ve blocked .ml and will never see content from the instance.

          But wait, we aren’t done yet in this menu. Click the down arrow under “Block user”. Now type “UltraGiGaGigantic” Make sure you select my .ml account as the other ones I no longer use. Thanks, appreciate it.

        • starelfsc2@sh.itjust.works
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          7 days ago

          Saw someone saying ML was not a tankie instance. No guys I know it’s the instance called ((1488)) but you can’t infer anything from that.

      • UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml
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        7 days ago

        People should vote.

        People should also be working to replace First-past-the-post voting in the states they reside in. Voting isn’t enough. The spoiler effect 3rd parties have is a policy choice every state government makes each election. Red state or blue.