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Enough Musk Spam

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[–] PunnyName@lemmy.world 18 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

Billionaires will never allow you to vote away their power.

Never

[–] Empricorn@feddit.nl 21 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (2 children)

I guess we should actually try it first before succumbing to defeatism in advance, no? There's a lot more of us than there is of them... What is it people say about the 4 Boxes to be used in defense of Liberty:

  1. soap
  2. ballot
  3. jury
  4. ammo

"Please use in that order."

(That's a quote from Frederick Douglas)

[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 1 points 40 minutes ago* (last edited 39 minutes ago) (1 children)

soap

ballot

jury

ammo ←←←

You are here.

[–] Empricorn@feddit.nl 0 points 28 minutes ago (1 children)

Oh? Did people show up to vote when we told them how important it was? No? Hmm, then I guess we didn't actually try the ballot box yet...

[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 1 points 14 minutes ago* (last edited 6 minutes ago)

I guess you'll just have to vote harder champ! I'm sure if you can just convince everyone to vote harder enough, this time, bloviating about how smart you need to be to engage in "strategic voting", even when that strategy has been demonstrated to fail, it'll be different this time! Its not you or the Democrats that need to change. No. It could never be that.

Any time now. Any time.

[–] DadVolante@sh.itjust.works 12 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Exactly. We've never actually used our voting privileges. Not really.

Whenever I hear the argument that voting doesn't do anything, I cringe.

When people show up (not just for presidential elections), shit gets done.

But Muricans are lazy and expect others to do the work for them

[–] metaStatic@kbin.earth 3 points 3 hours ago

Australia has mandatory voting and the mining industry still owns this country.

Just because America makes it cheap to buy an election doesn't mean it could ever be unaffordable.

[–] jared@mander.xyz 7 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Did you know mining billionaires is a great way to recover stolen power and resources?

[–] Empricorn@feddit.nl 3 points 5 hours ago

Making a note of this for a theoretical speedrun...