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VOTE BLUE!

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Nearly half the country allows USA voters to leave work to vote. It varies state by state, Colorado and New York will murder your entire company if you do not allow time off to vote.

Check your local laws, if you can take the time off you have no excuse. Plan ahead, make sure your ballots can be mailed if that's an option. Call out sick if you must your job isn't that important I promise you. They don't give any kind of fucks and it's in their best interest if you don't vote.

You

Yes you

Your vote matters

It always will

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“no one for president” you sound like such a fucking cringe edgelord and unless u plan on staging a massive revolution in a country of 300 million spanning 3.8 million square miles and overthrowing the government before November I would suggest voting for the candidate who DOESNT cater to white supremacy subcultures, getting involved in local community services & initiatives, donating to causes, or campaigning/protesting instead of this performative mock activism

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even if you're resigned that trump is going to win, 1/3 of the country lives in states with competitive senate elections. if democrats win the senate, there is very little that trump can do (can't even appoint supreme court nominees)

the following states all have competitive senate elections:

arizona

florida

maryland

michigan

montana

nevada

ohio

pennsylvania

texas

wisconsin

even if you don't think your state is competitive at all, THESE SENATE RACES STILL ARE, SO IF YOU LIVE IN ONE OF THESE STATES, MAKE SURE TO VOTE

and even if you don't live in one of those states, you could live in a competitive house seat. if democrats win the house, then trump can't pass any bills

and even if you don't live in a competitive state or district, your local elections matter even more than federal ones because they have a much more direct impact on your life

so VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE

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I dunno man all I'm saying is that the right wing doesn't need nearly enough convince just to vote as the left does

Republicans just say "Biden is destroying America, we have to stop him" and the right wing says "okie dokie" and shows up to fucking vote for every republican on the ballot

Meanwhile the rest of us are out here giving civics lessons on how congress works and why Biden can't just Do A Thing, separation of powers, write laundry lists of all the good things Biden and Democrats have done, remind people of all the shit trump pulled, actual tables comparing Biden and trump policies, on and on,

and the left is just like "😡 both parties are the same" or "but Biden didn't do enough / did this thing I didn't like!" and stay home

And it's like

This is literally why america has such right wing policies, because you don't fucking show up every election

The center and the left showed up in the UK and France and unified and got out of each other's ways because they knew they had to defeat the right and they voted

Holy fucking shit why do we have to go through this every election to tell you just to show up and fucking vote you shouldn't need this much convincing to just vote

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Saying "voting doesn't matter" might reach your younger peers online but it certainly hasn't reached Clangus Hargbarg who was part of the kkk in 1951 and still sends in his ballot. He hasn't missed a one.

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from one chronically anxious person to another: the world is not going to go up in flames. What happens will be more slow, more bureaucratic, more boring. There is no catastrophe to end all catastrophes, no rapture, no sudden end. You can't give into the call of the void, because there is no void. So you just have to do the work to make tomorrow a better place, anyway. Because that's how it gets better.

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"If voting changed anything they wouldn't let people do it-" grabs your face THEY DIDN'T JUST "LET" PEOPLE DO IT, MOST PEOPLE COULDN'T VOTE FOR HUNDREDS OF YEARS. PEOPLE OF COLOR ONLY GOT THE FULL RIGHT TO VOTE 50 YEARS AGO IN THE US, THATS BARELY A GENERATION.

IF IT DIDNT MATTER AT ALL WHY WOULD THEY SPEND SO MUCH TIME GERRYMANDERING THE SHIT OUT OF EVERYWHERE?? WHY CAN'T FELONS VOTE?? WHY CANT PUERTO RICO VOTE? WHY DO THEY KEEP SWITCHING DATES AND LAWS AND TIMES AND WHATEVER THEY POSSIBLY CAN TO STOP PEOPLE FROM VOTING?? WHY DO THEY MAKE EFFORT AT ALL??

BEING DISILLUSIONED IS A REASONABLE RESPONSE. BUT PEOPLE FOUGHT AND DIED AND ARE STILL FUCKING DYING FOR THAT RIGHT, DONT SPIT IN THEIR FACE.

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I really don’t know how to explain to you that activism, community outreach, meeting important goals in the realm of social justice, and just generally living life is much easier under the presidency of an average democrat than a republican who was so outspokenly racist, genocidal, inflammatory, misogynistic, and violent that he may have permanently skewed the american right to the furthest extreme possible. I don’t know how to explain to you that the candidate who was so extreme that he brought neo-nazis into the mainstream political landscape needs to be kept out of any political office at any cost. even if it means voting for a center-left democrat who won’t personally sign off on your glorious revolution.

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DR ADAM LEVY ClimateAdam ROSEMARY MOSCO

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REBLOG THIS IF YOU'RE GENDERFLUID, SUPPORT PEOPLE WHO ARE GENDERFLUID, OR YOU LIKE MAC N CHEESE

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you ever get surprised by your own recurring issues. like come on man. I thought we were past this.