#vote like your lives depend on it

[kvietka]

I swear to god, if all you people who complained about Biden being on the Dem ticket now don't vote in November, I'm going to wanna strangle all of you.

[christinareedy-love]

Our voices matter. Our votes matter & we need to take this country back for the people, by the people. ALL the people

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Republikkkans refusing to concede? So, grown ass men throwing temper tantrums because they're not getting their way? 🖕 We, The People, need to vote out nazis.

Republicans need to respect the will of the people.

[ronehmke]

[solarpunkani]

Ok fuck it you know something I've never really quite understood about part of the Leftist vs Liberals debate on voting.

So so so many people act like its either-or. Like you're either dedicating your entire life to voting and promoting politicians and phone banking or whatever, or you're a True Rebel waiting for The Uprising to Come and Solve Everything.

But like. In my experience. Me voting is just me kinda go 'which person seems kinda good? Which one at least sucks the least? ok lemme go vote.' and then its anywhere from 30 minutes to an hour tops of my life. And I still have plenty of time to do Stuff and participate in Conversations about Other Important Things. And also you can admit and acknowledge and understand that the system As Is kinda sorta really sucks ass, but also still admit and acknowledge and understand that at this current point in time we are still living in the suckass system and do something to alleviate the suckass At Least A Little while also working to bolster/create/advocate for Other Systems.

I guess just like. it's not a black or white thing. Between 'top 500 volunteers for a specific politician/voting office/etc' and 'absolutely positively not voting at all' there is a gray area called 'vote and then just do other stuff'.

[rosielindy]

Worth 15 minutes of your time 💗💗💗💗

[thatsheetyghost]

As The New York Times previously reported, Trump's proposed deportations would be unprecedented in scale, requiring the building of "huge camps to detain people" and the creation of a deportation squad composed of "local police officers and National Guard soldiers voluntarily contributed by Republican-run states."

You fuckers really really REALLY do not have any excuses to not vote for Kamala this year. At. Fucking. All.

[hiscrimsonangel]

Elections in the USA are tomorrow. Human rights, freedoms and democracy are all on the line. They can not make you leave if you are in line to vote when polls close! Get out there and vote for Kamala! Our very existence depends on it!

[handspunyarns]

L’il Pink Pussy Hat for L’Il Grogu

[spaceumbredoggos]

My therapist has her work cut out for her tomorrow. Gonna try making a deal with Bill again. Hopefully the right candidate drops out of the race. I’m so scared and I’m so tired. I just played Pokemon go for three hours straight and that was a lot of walking. I have foot blisters. I had a full on panic attack with the shakes and everything when I heard Biden dropped out. My sleep schedule will be messed up.

[christinareedy-love]

VOTE BLUE 2024 🌊

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Our voices matter. Our votes matter & we need to take this country back for the people, by the people. ALL the people.

Trump attempted a coup against America. He belongs in prison, not on the 2024 ballot.

[irnhero]

if i see one more article, post, or news anchor talking about how joe biden is old, i'm putting my fist through a window. i feel like i've gone through the fucking looking glass.

this is project 2025, trump's plan for what he'll do if elected. whatever you think is in there, it's worse. watch a breakdown of the highlights here. this man wants to unravel the fabric of our democracy for good - this all aside from his vitriolic hatred of poc, his determination to start ww3, and the fact that he can't string a sentence together without telling outrageous and easily verifiable lies. his administration will start their crusade to exterminate trans people on day one, and they won't stop there.

do not talk to me about how joe biden is old, as if that could ever matter to me more than my life or the lives of my friends and family. my little sister is 14, she's trans, and i don't know what to tell her when we talk about politics, because one of these people wants her dead and the other one is old and some of you are still acting like those problems are equals.

i can't fucking stand this. i'm not hearing it this time, we are not repeating 2016. refusing to vote is not an act of protest, it is an act of complacency, and our most vulnerable will suffer for your negligence. vote like your life depends on it, because for some of us, it really fucking does.

[orlandrake]

Seriously though Donald Trump wants to ethnically cleanse America. It will be violent, there will be camps, more people are going die if this man wins. Vote. Vote. Vote!!! FUCKING VOTE!!!

[notalostcausejustyet]

THIS. My gods. Even if voting doesn't hold the power it should, it's the power we have. Why in the seven hells would you just hand that over to the part of the population that is hell-bent on actively encouraging the creation of a fascist regime. The people who have created the very lake of toxic swill in which we now dwell. THEY WANT YOU TO BE APATHETIC. If young people are engaged and mobilized they will lose everything in the next couple of decades. But it takes work. It takes sucking it up and voting for the shit appetizers so everyone doesn't get stuck with the shit buffet forever more. Yes, Biden is a shittastic choice. Not even arguing that, but the only thing voting for Ttrump accomplishes is the loss of even more lives and most likely the loss of our democracy for good. Politics is morally repugnant chess. This is a long game. We must work to plant the seeds of trees whose shade we will never sit in. And it is demoralizing and thankless work. But I'm not voting for Biden, or myself. I'm voting to be able to vote again in the future and so that my kid can too.

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.

[christinareedy-love]

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You have NO EXCUSES for voting for this. He is a horrible, racist piece of 💩. Take him off the ballot. This is NOT his country. This country belongs to WE THE PEOPLE, & AMERICA doesn't like trump as we all proved with the last election.

VOTE BLUE 2024

[itsthenerdwonder]

Hey, just a reminder, posts equating American Republicans and American Democrats as equally bad are pushing for a voter suppression agenda.

It doesn't matter if they're Russian bots or your best fandom friend from The Philippines. They're trying to get you to not vote. Because to them, not voting is making "your voice" heard when in actuality it's their voice.

Their voice wants to stop your voice. Because they clearly know better. They will grab any article to try and claim the American Democrats will commit the exact same atrocities, maybe even worse, than the American Republicans. So you have to use your voice.

What is your voice? Vote. Vote Democrat because an inch forward is better than an inch backwards. And considering the last eight years, it's more like two inches forwards that's better than 2 miles backwards.

Vote all the way down. There is going to be more than Harris vs Trump on the ballot, and those votes will matter more. School boards, local sheriffs, state senators, state representatives, random local or state laws. A President cannot enact the radical change people want. That comes from little cultural changes from people in communities pushing the culture where they want it to go. Presidents don't do that, the non-racist sheriff does, the pro-book and pro-reading and anti-censorship school board does, the senators you call to tell them to stop sending weapons to genocidal countries do.

Pick an issue and be the change. Call your state representatives and senators and give your opinion. They're supposed to represent you, so make sure they represent you and not Misogynistic Mike. Go to school board meetings. Go to town hall meetings. Organize a potluck and talk to your friends and neighbors so they can help you. Not for everything. Being passionate about native flowers being reintroduced for 3 years is a lot more helpful than jumping to whatever topic the internet is passionate about for 2 weeks then jumping to the next one.

Don't silence your voice to please them. Your voice, your vote. Every time

The same goes for people equating progressive and conservative parties in other countries, I just personally do not know enough to speak about political parties in either Brazil or Botswana or Belgium, so I'm not gonna.

[area51-escapee]

I keep thinking about the person at the DNC that said “If you’re not at the table, then you’re on the menu”.

They refused to allow any Palestinians up there to speak about the genocide their people have been facing for nearly a year straight, on top of the decades of violence and oppression and occupation. The genocide that is only able to continue because the U.S. government refused to stop arming Israel.

People have also pointed out that there was no transgender speaker. I’ve heard this was the first time in a few years that happened.

What I’m trying to get at is that it feels incredibly obvious to me that trans people should be standing with Palestinians in solidarity, as many of us already are. What we are facing in the U.S. is bad but nothing compared to the ongoing attacks in Gaza and the West Bank, but we are a marginalized group that very clearly cannot comfortably rely on the dems to grant us safety and protection. Our rights should not be getting dangled over our heads by liberals trying to draw us away from supporting a ceasefire and an arms embargo when those are immediate and urgent threats, this has been going on for far too long and I find it fucking disgusting how many people use our identity, our community, to try and guilt people for putting their foot down when it comes to genocide.

I hope to be able to live in my home state and not have to worry about my access to hormones or surgery being taken away. I hope to be able to get my gender marker changed on my license, not get turned away, not get added to a fucking watch list. But more than that I want to wake up tomorrow and not see new atrocities being inflicted on people who have already been through so much. I want to check the news hours from now and see that people in Gaza won’t have to flee anymore, that not another bomb will be dropped on them, I want to see homes and schools and hospitals being rebuilt. My right to transition should not come at the expense of people who have been treated so poorly through history and to today, there isn’t a candidate even pushing to protect my rights, my existence, so I refuse to put the fantasy of them doing so before the moral responsibility of supporting Palestinians.