#dont waste your vote

[galliro]

Ignore the people/bots on.here that are trying to get you not to vote for biden. Theyll write you essays about all the things biden has done/will do and then try and convince you to waste your vote on a third party like in 2016.

Conviniently they leave out the fact trump and the republicans have done worst and will worsen things if elected again

REMEMBER republicans are very openly stating they want to kneecap democracy if trump gets elected. There is not one complainy you can lodge against biden which doesnr apply to trump.twice over

You wont get another chance vote if republicans get their way

Vote blue

[doomdoomofdoom]

Fun fact: If you look at current polls that include 3rd party options, all but 2 states (out of 18 currently reported) could flip if the RFK voters opted to support either major party instead.

Kennedy, the only 3rd party option most people are even aware of, has been consistently polling at about 5%. He is not going to win the election. Voting for him is not going to change the system.

Do not waste your vote.

I'm not doing the morals debate here. I'm telling you that your protest vote will not do anything. A faceless or uncast ballot does not carry any message. Message your representatives instead and support the lesser evil that has a chance at winning.

Also whether you want to call it psy-op or election interference or just bots, and whether they're russian or from literally any other country with a vetted interest in a specific outcome (that's all of them btw): Any social media has some percentage of them. "AI" tools have made them easier than ever to implement. Do not form your opinion on someone's random post. If you have genuine reason to believe you are dealing with a bot, report it. If the bot is aimed to disrupt an election, double report it. Do your own research, stay aware of media bias, and use reputable sources. These things should inform your vote. Never ever rely on someone's opinion online, chatbot or not.

Because in the end, you can't know anyone's intention.

I could be a bot, for all you know. What will you do?

For people who don't remember the 2016 Tumblr was full of Russian trolls who posed as progressive social justice blogs and urged young liberals to throw their vote away on a third party. You can read more about it here :https://www.wired.com/story/tumblr-russia-trolls-propaganda/ This camapign was extraiordinary succesful and third party voters were a key reason why Trump one( if you look at the electoral results you will see that the race was so close that if the third party votes had gone to Hillary she would have easily buried Trump) Sadly we didn't know that this was a orchestred camapign until Tumblr released the data itself and told us who the blogs were. Those were not simple spam blogs. They were pros. They knew how to talk to people, they made real posts and interacted. They tried this in 2020 but we were wary because the memories were still fresh But now thy are trying again. I just found this guy who is running the EXACT same play book as in 2016. Pretending to be a person of color , poting progresive posts while at the same time urigng everyoe to vote third party. As soon as I called him out he immedately blocked me beause he knew I outed him. So now i's up to you guys. Don't let Trump supporting Russian trolls run their psy ops here. Report en masse and get them now instead of waiting for months for tumblr to tell us they worked for Trump REPORT THIS RUSSIAN TROLL NOW. DON'T LET THEM PULL THEIR GAMES AGAIN: https://www.tumblr.com/decolonize-the-left

[dittolicous]

i dont care where you live in the usa or w/e... if you dont vote for biden you are throwing away your vote and enabling trump. because *everyone* thinks their vote doesnt matter and piddles around because of that. hell, everyone thinks 'its only me, it wont make a difference' about THOUSANDS of things, like littering, picking seashells, taking stones from rivers, etc. and in all of those situations THEYRE FUCKING WRONG. if anything unites us, its our damn ability to think we alone are the outlier despite everything indicating otherwise.

and miss me with that 'biden is just as bad/is a murderer' shit. 1) cool, and how do you plan to change things in a mr. nazi-dictator trump world? how are you ACTIVELY making a difference? 2) CHANGE IS INCREMENTAL. the reason things suck so much is because the left keeps taking slow change as 'no change' and giving up before we can gain any momentum to make big change!

if you vote in hamas or w/e to protest... you might as well throw dirt at all those suffering innocent people. you arent saving palestine that way. that is not a helpful protest. you'll only enable trump to win by throwing away your vote. it is the one bit of actual power you have, so USE IT RIGHT! stop in-fighting for one moment! look at what is possible to achieve in reality! dreams arent fulfilled overnight!

when you feel like your vote doesnt matter, remember this - you have to try anyways

[thatdemiboymess]

My mom called me when she found out about the Trump assassination attempt and before hanging up the call she asked me to just...please be more careful. Proposed that maybe I should chill out with the pride pins and all, considering the political environment at the moment, just with how things are, ya know? But I can't. Not now. Shit is so fucked.

[comradecowplant]

I believe Kamala- despite every word she has ever spoken on the matters- is actually deeply pro-Palestine, pro-trans & overall a progressive hero, because I understand that when democrats say repugnant reactionary things while campaigning they are actually lying! which is good & normal for so-called democratic elections!!!!! if you listen to the gnomes who live inside my walls you'll understand her real values, which she'll totally pinky promise act upon once you reward her lies & elect her! you dumb third party voters would understand this if u payed attention in civics class 💅💅💅

[gentil-minou]

Hi, I just wanted to say thank you for voting third-party. I know a lot of folks have said third-party votes are wasted, but with the way things are going, I'll probably vote third-party, too, and it's nice to know there are other people out there who care more about following their beliefs than standing by a broken system.

Maybe this will be the election people realize it's not a waste.

(Also, I'm sorry folks are being nasty in your inbox. Hope things get better soon. On all counts.)

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Thank you for also voting third party!! I used to do it more back when I first started voting because I actually believed in the democratic process, until I was disillusioned by a rigged system and started voting blue because it felt like I had no choice.

Every year I voted blue I had to convince myself "this is fine. This is better than the other guy" even though I knew their warmongering policies and how they leaned too close to the center for comfort. Voting Clinton and Biden last couple cycles felt like I had to, because I was able to wear the blinders long enough to gaslight myself into thinking I actually wanted them as my president. Because I had to or else I'd "waste my vote"

I refuse to do that anymore. Now I realize I'd waste my vote by giving it to someone who would rather see us dead than lose their money and power. I'd waste my vote giving it to a broken system.

The people shaming everyone to vote blue act like I'm voting for Trump by default if I don't vote Biden, and look i followed the same rhetoric in 2020. I'm sure if you go back in my posts I said the same thing.

But the line was crossed somewhere around the minute I learned my money funded the deaths of thousands, and always has. The line was crossed when I learned the president I called into power cares more about his military pet project than life. The line was crossed when I realized Biden is old enough to remember when Palestine was it's own free nation but refuses to, because he follows the age old American tactic of "This land is my land, actually, not yours"

So yeah I'm done with feeding into a system like that.

And here's the thing about this newest generation of voters: they are soooo powerful and they are so much braver than I was at their age. They know that meaningful movement and cooperation can overtake a corrupted system. The Dems and Republicans are both terrified of them because they know they're not as easy to indoctrinate into their philosophy.

I genuinely believe that if we can use the millions and millions of people who voice support for Palestine to also put their vote towards someone else, like Claudia in the socialist party who I've been keeping an eye on or the representatives that have actually backed up calls for ceasefire, like Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar and I'm proud to say my own rep, who are trying to move the dem party to a place that actually represents me.

If millions back a third party candidate, that says something. It says we aren't going to fall into the traps laid by the generations before us. It's says we are going to fight for what we believe in.

Revolution does not happen in a year or two. It takes a lifetime. And if there's anything that I've learned from Palestinians it's that the cause for a truly free world is worth fighting for no matter how many decades it takes.

[animentality]

Americans always complain about the government but I don't see them getting off their lazy fucking asses and voting, or trying to overthrow it.

Like be the change you want to see in the world or shut up and pay your taxes.

[touchlikethesun]

i think a psa should go out that advises against asking americans abroad about the election. like. i’m here. do you really think i want to talk about us poltics? do you, random person i just met?

[feddy-34]

just vote y'all. thats all i want.

[aw-dag]

Section 1557 is the law that guarantees trans protections in the us. Saying she supports that law is not “not giving a shit about trans rights lol” just because you don’t know to what law she is referring.

Lovely how libs has spent a year going "yeah well Harris is gonna back and fund a genocide but at least she will stand by trans people in the US" just for her to come out as not giving a shit about trans rights lol

[petrifiedchild]

just dont talk to ppl who doomscroll its weird lmao dont doomscroll and cry to me because ill be like yeah lets talk about the newest advances in science or talk about space theres lots of news OH U DONT CARE MMM STRANGE THOUGHT U LOVED THE NEWS

[lavender-town-radio]

biden (and by extension harris) never fuckin had my vote anyway. ive spent the last 2 and a half years planning to vote for a specific third party candidate, nothing changed for me really when i decided i was going to not register to vote for safety reasons. harris didn't "lose" my vote, she never had it in the first place because i think democratic policy sucks and we should toss them out of the white house too.

[ryuseitai]

the only thing i will be genuinely upset about with the road to 10 song things is if tetora gets put in the stupid fucking fight song thing, when i saw him AND ALL OF BUTOU KAI in the current most voted thing on twitter i wanted to rip all of my hair out You people are all so insane. Why would you do that. That plus the only placements i really really REALLYYY have my heart on for aby of them is any of noritama being in the first song from the first half of them, i forget the name, but the like cute school love song one, BUT ESPECIALLY TETORA as soon as i heard the sample of that son gi was liek fuck. I need my son to be in this immeidately or i will start being violent. LIKE HED BE SO CUTE FOR IT and his voice i feel like would suit the sound of the song sooo well But clearly the majority of enstarsers did not realize this non subjective fact. Tch.

[ramenheim]

OP wha happun?

listen i am not american. i understand that even democrats fucking suck and its a genuinely shitty situation to be in. im so sorry. but hey, hey look at me. why are you guys bullying people for saying "you should still vote blue?" Like im curious about the alternatives youve got. voting red? firebombing walmart? tumblr user catboyssepticbutthole, i know you will not be firebombing walmart.

[nnnnobodyy]

New conspiracy theory: Inverse pied piper strategy where the republican party has been funding milquetoast democratic candidates who's unwillingness to stand for anything aside from "compromising" with the right either fails to inspire enough people to vote for them thus handing the win to the republican candidate, or who's victory ultimately means that even though the republican candidate lost, the newly elected democrate will be more concerned with "maintaining the status quo" than making any meaningful positive change that republicans would then have to work harder to campaign against and to dismantle if they regained the office.

[merevide]

this was so rigged it’s unreal