Franceska MannI am meeting new people and know a few more who are American men in their 20s and 30s who hate Trump and they do not vote. They say voting doesn't change anything. Then they refuse to get registered and they refuse to vote. I try to reason with them. I say if it wasn't important, why are voter suppression laws passed? If it doesn't matter, why are they trying to steal our votes? I've lost respect for these non-voters. I beg them to vote. Then I take it personally when they don't.
Dopes The Frogman@FranceskaMann @benroyce these are Ben's favorite people🤣🤣🤣
ᴮᵉⁿ ᴿᵒʸᶜᵉVOTE IN THE PRIMARIESthe nonvoter
the whiny lump who talks a big game and doesn't do shit
lack of perfection hurts their precious fee fees. voting is just so hard for their delicate sensibilities. aww
the most useless pieces of shit in the world
i ask them to be true to their indolence and shut the fuck up
but no
self-serving ego masturbation online is all they have in their pathetic lives. and mindless cynicism, toxic idealism, learned helplessness
their character failures not ours
Lisa@benroyce I just fail to see how demonizing them will turn them out to vote. Your tactic puzzles me.
it won't turn them out to vote
it's for the sake of everyone else reading along
nevermind that coddling nonvoters as you might argue for doesn't result in them changing their behavior at all. that's codependent enabling of people who would invent any excuse not to vote
they don't have coherent demands. they have a rationale to drop out from the world. it's extremely entitled. the only valid way forward is to excoriate this broken, stupid constellation of personality failures
Pino Carafa@benroyce @lrt_writes Of course the worst people are the people who vote for fascists. But the next worst people are people who cannot be arsed to vote AGAINST fascists. They're enablers. They are apathetic swine who think that either they won't be affected ("I'm alright, Jack"), or, if they can't be better off themselves, why should they let a half or even quarter decent party help out anybody else who's struggling?
How can you NOT fly into a fit of rage, seeing that?
@benroyce @lrt_writes in PR systems such parties often become much more powerful than they should be. While other parties splinter over ideology, they don't have any, and they can still count on the 20% stupidity vote to propel them into major or even senior coalition roles.
Only ranked choice voting has half a chance to push out the 20% insanity vote through the smart voting of the remaining 80%. The Irish democracy is FAR from ideal, but it DOES have this safeguard.
@rozeboosje @benroyce how i wish we had ranked-choice voting!
pmonks (330ppm)@rozeboosje @benroyce @lrt_writes RCV *plus* compulsory voting is even better. cf: the Australian electoral system
Project 1789@pmonks @rozeboosje @benroyce @lrt_writes
We get 90%+ voter participation.
The only improvement I'd make is auto enrolment at 18 years old.
@pmonks @lrt_writes @rozeboosje @JustRobForNow @[email protected]
16 year olds!!!