• Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.world
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    16 days ago

    Voter turnout is always highest for presidential elections, and the last two have had the highest in decades. Yet that is still in the low 60’s. Any ideas for how to increase turnout?

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      16 days ago

      A fascist dictator who laid out exactly what he was going to do in a bullet pointed manefesto was enough for me. But considering that this wasn’t enough to make people get off their asses and check a fucking box- I really don’t see anyone scrambling to arms.

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          16 days ago

          Looks like you ended up with all that genocide but now with a side of LGBTQ+ persecution, illegal deportations, and concentration camps!

          How’s all that winning feeling bud?

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            16 days ago

            We had all that under Biden too, and Kamala promised to do what Trump had been doing, but more competently.

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              16 days ago

              I don’t debate of even bother with people that make shit up in order to be a part of, or stay in the discussion.

              Either play within the margins of reality, or go home.

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                15 days ago

                Do you not remember the Migrant overflow facilities they concentrated immigrants in under Biden, in greater numbers? Oh right, you went back to brunch once a D was doing the same shit we all agreed was bad when Trump was doing it.

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              15 days ago

              So let’s just loose even more then, right? I can’t fucking stand people that are so smugly arrogant and entitled that they think no one will be affected by their ignorance.

              Their wishful thinking remain so regardless of how badly they want it, and the result of their wishful thinking got us trump.

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                14 days ago

                I think ypu are falling for the trap of blaming the other victims. No matter how people voted, the person doing the evil is still who needs to be blamed. Well him, and the system that let him get there in the first place. Your anger is justified, but directing it at people you have never met, and most of whichs vote made no difference (lot of blue state voters didn’t vote, but the state still went blue) is only going to cause more people to be disillusioned and not vote.