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[needlekind]

okay but like you’re still voting right? like actually voting not a fill in the blank throw away vote?

like, the fact that that’s not your fucking business aside: yes, i already did because my (very solidly blue) state does early and mail-in voting, and i voted for biden, i did so for a number of reasons but especially because i am a privileged white lady working a comfortable job in a booming industry whose life can very likely remain mmmmostly comfortable even under another four years of trump and feel that it’d be unfair for me to make the choice for others who would suffer, but also fuck off? genuinely i can’t even blame people for whom the answer is “no;” the vast majority of people i know who are choosing not to vote are significantly more disenfranchised than i am and have every reason to believe things won’t change under biden and i don’t blame them! many of the people i know who are choosing not to vote are sexual assault survivors and can you not get your head out of your ass long enough to imagine why getting angry at a sexual assault survivor for opting out of voting for a rapist is abhorrent to do? can you take a minute to work on thinking about why people aren’t willing to vote for a war criminal and a rapist and a conservative? joe biden literally told people who believe his rape victim and people who are dissatisfied with his history on immigration not to vote for him and you’re gonna get all pissy when people go “well if you say so”?

the “normal” biden wants to go back to was an absolute hellscape in and of its own that led us to this in the first place. i know there’s a lot of talk about how the folks refusing to vote don’t have plans for their grand revolution but also i’m not seeing anyone who’s going “vote for the democrats then hold them accountable!!” come up with any plans on how to actually do so when they’re a bunch of useless spineless cowards who’d be getting exactly what they want from a biden election and a “return to normal” and if they do get it why are they going to care about their progressive constituents? because they obviously don’t give a shit and aren’t using any of the tools they have in their disposal to help fix anything

like, sorry to doompost on main, and this really is not any attempt to convince anyone of anything or articulate any arguments or whatever it’s literally just doomposting, but i’m so angry at how uselessly self-righteous all the crowing to vote as a solution for all our problems is, because i don’t think it’s actually going to fucking work even if biden does win, which is absolutely not to say i think trump is going to be any good at all, but i don’t think anything’s going to change under biden either! i don’t know what the solution is here and i won’t pretend to but it’s absolutely not aggressively insisting that you’re entitled to the votes of disenfranchised people. go court the republicans you wanted to win over so bad instead