• 1Malayali@lemmy.ml
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    19 hours ago

    Voting is the first and easiest step, right?

    In scenarios where it does not seem to save you from drowning, What is to be done?

    • Donkter@lemmy.world
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      10 hours ago

      Yeah exactly. Voting is 20 minutes out of one day once a year if you’re super active. It doesn’t hinder any other efforts and it doesn’t diminish all the other work you can and should be doing the other 364 days 23 hours and 40 minutes. Maybe you can spend that 40 minutes learning about the candidates to have a more informed vote. It’s just a stinky thing you do to try and put the lesser of two evils in.

      • RiverRock@lemmy.ml
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        7 hours ago

        It also wouldn’t take much time for me to pray once or twice a day, but what’s it supposed to actually accomplish?

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        8 hours ago

        It doesn’t hinder any other efforts

        Actually, further entrenching a right-wing genocidal party of geriatric oligarchs does hinder other efforts. Further normalising and legitimising the ever-expanding fascist police-state does hinder other efforts.

        It’s just a stinky thing you do to try and put the lesser of two evils in.

        Or, following your logic, it would be more useful to do something like vote third party.

    • boonhet@sopuli.xyz
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      16 hours ago

      Yes. Vote first because if nobody votes then the fascists (whose voters are pretty damn consistent) are legitimate.

      In scenarios where it does not seem to save you from drowning, What is to be done?

      Well that’s up to you and the like-minded people in your community.