So when someone says, Bernie voters won’t do the right thing and vote for whoever the nominee is you say ‘no, this is false’. Then you admit you will do exactly that. kool.
I think it’s fine for informed voters in uncontested states to not vote as a form of protest. But I dislike encouraging it because a bunch of dumb fucks in battleground states won’t pick up the nuance and then stay home when they shouldn’t.
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No, I said that the number of Bernie voters who do that is no higher than the number of voters from other candidates who do the same thing, and it is bullshit that he is painted negatively because of it.
There is also obviously nothing wrong with my voting plan, but you’ll pretend there is because of course you will.
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I agree with this.
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Here’s the thing though, this line of thinking goes into battleground states because people in this country are often stupid and rarely think strategically (if I had a nickel for every time in the run up I heard ‘Hillary’s going to win anyway, so I’m not voting’…).
I’m not worried about catface not voting for Biden, because he’s not going to be the nominee. But it pisses me off in relation to voting when people say stuff like this. People died for the right to vote, and you’re spitting on that every time you don’t.
People also died for my right not to vote.
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Wow, just wow. I mean wow.
Yes, nothing underscores the freedoms the country is supposed to embrace like bullying people into voting for candidates they despise.
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Bollocks.
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No debunking seemed to happen here.
And big +1 to the right to not vote.
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Did they die for my right to vote specifically for the dem presidential nominee?
I’ll be voting. I’ll probably even vote for president if Biden is the nom, it just won’t be for him.
People died for freedom of religion and you’re spitting on that every time you don’t pick a religion.
Nunn I hope you’re packing heat every time you leave the house. People died for that right.
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Out of respect for those who have fallen to safeguard my freedoms, I will not quarter any soldiers in times of peace, nor in times of war except in a manner prescribed by law.
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It’s amazing, but doesn’t surprise me that all the bomb throwers are out in full force. Just admit it, most of you are here to watch this burn and some of you are even willing to contribute to the burning if you can.
This is just a reminder that women were not allowed to vote 100 years ago. There is massive voter suppression again, and there was massive voter suppression prior to the civil rights movement. People were literally killed because they wanted to vote. But yeah, let’s pull this into a first and second amendment situation that has absolutely nothing to do with what I’m talking about.
It’s for sure your right not to vote, but I will not ever do that because of what it meant for people to get that right to vote. I stand by what I said that you’re spitting on the people who died for their right to vote. I don’t actually care in general who people vote for, but I really have major issues with people who willfully don’t vote. Look at how people treat voting in countries that are doing it for the first time.
I vote every time too, but talking like that is fascistic. And I certainly hope that people who would otherwise vote for Trump will not vote instead. (Same goes for people who would vote for Biden in the primary.)
If you don’t have the freedom to act like a moron (within reason), then you’re not really free.
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I stand by “Bollocks”.
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I’m not sure how anything in this post couldn’t equally apply to any number of other rights that people are still fighting for or have fought for recently. You’re sitting here preaching that I need to vote for Biden, someone who opposed bussing, because of the civil rights movement.
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So you would be comfortable going up to a person who had died for their right to vote to say to them, ‘yes, I know you died because you desperately wanted to vote, but I’m exercising my right not vote because I don’t care.’ Is that something you’d be fine with doing.