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halfricanloveyou · 2 years ago

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it’s okay to be angry and hate this shit and you’re right about this but you NEED to vote. local and state laws are always included in the elections. and biden is bad but when you don’t vote people like trump get elected into office and do things like turn the supreme court into a republican majority and take away abortion rights and actively support multiple state level and national level candidates who’s platforms are based on hate, which influences hateful people to vote FOR those candidates.

voting CAN fix this but you all have to register and vote. and show up to every single election every time. you have to research your local and state candidates on TOP of the ones running for president. you have to vote in the primaries.

it’s not like you can go and get mad and storm government buildings to guillotine public officials. if you try you’ll be up against the US military. the only reason the last attack on the capitol was successful is because if they succeeded in killing democratic officials it would benefit the party that holds the most power. and right wing candidates love to spend trillions on the military (and let’s be real, even the democrats do but the republicans do it to a higher degree) so guess who the military is going to protect? guess who the military is going to target as the enemy? do you really think any number of everyday citizens you can try to rally would stand a chance?

biden won’t fix this. your rage and your feelings of helplessness won’t fix it either. voting WILL. you just fall for the propaganda being spread that it’s pointless to vote because persuading far left anti fascists to feel that way keeps them out of the polling lines.

“nothing you do will change the system so why bother voting? it will always be this way, so any candidate that has a platform you support will never win and won’t be able to make change anyways” is also facist propaganda. it’s just targeted towards the opposition instead.

NPR is a great resource to keep informed on political issues. despite what right wing racists claim, it’s fairly unbiased and goes into detail to get the full story without leaving parts out intentionally to turn their stories into propaganda. and please just fucking vote. don’t listen to anyone who tells you it’s pointless and won’t fix anything so you might as well not bother. they’re fucking stupid and they are literally spreading facist propaganda. revolution is great but educating yourself and the people around you is far far more effective than getting angry at people online.

right now it’s almost halfway through 2023, and 2024 is an election year in the US. I have started to see a growing proliferation of posts suggesting that there is no difference between the republican and democratic parties–the exact same kind of posts I saw an awful lot of before the last major election here. I am unfollowing folks who post or reblog these sort of posts, as I consider these posts to be fascist propaganda framed as leftist discourse, designed to suppress anti-fascist votes and voters.

#literally every single young person falls for it every single time #because we are not completely facist yet you can still vote and make a difference #if you don’t more and more facist candidates will be elected and they will continually change the laws to give themselves absolute power #a centerist candidate that cares more about being elected and people pleasing is weak and ineffective #but when the alternative is a literal facist and you CAN VOTE to make that happen?#and enough people DID and it GOT THE FACIST PUT OF OFFICE #why would you fall for the lie that voting is pointless??#also roe v wade was passed because of trump changing the supreme court #he also used his influence to get more extremists like him into office #any law that is put into effect by the supreme court can’t be reversed by only one branch #because there are more far right republicans in office BECAUSE of trump’s facist propaganda #that supreme court decision has little hope of being repealed until those candidates are VOTED OUT #it has literally nothing to do with biden. he cannot repeal a supreme court decision #ONLY CONGRESS can do anything about it #this is misinformation #if he vetoed it immediately after congress passed it then congress can repeal the veto anyway #so instead his administration is trying to protect state laws that are proposed to keep abortion rights #but they have to be VOTED ON by congress which is a republican majority #and when congressional votes happen outside of presidential elections but you don’t vote in those because they ‘don’t matter’#guess who wins? and guess which party consistently shows up to EVERY ELECTION?#don’t fall for propaganda based on inciting an emotional response #learn how the government functions. it’s one of the most important things to do #so you can fully understand your rights as a citizen and the process by which change is made #and do your best to get it from unbiased sources even if the biased sources are saying what you want to hear #you have to show you WANT change by voting. a centerist candidate will base their decisions on what voters that show up to the polls want #to keep themselves in office #they don’t care about anything other than appealing to as many people as possible.#yeah i’m gonna get hate anons and hate mail for this one but idc it’s too important #letting this go unchallenged is not something that was gonna sit right with me #and saying it this way means people will read it. even if it makes them angry they still had to read the words

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