politics
Welcome to the discussion of US Politics!
Rules:
- Post only links to articles, Title must fairly describe link contents. If your title differs from the site’s, it should only be to add context or be more descriptive. Do not post entire articles in the body or in the comments.
- Articles must be relevant to politics. Links must be to quality and original content. Articles should be worth reading. Clickbait, stub articles, and rehosted or stolen content are not allowed. Check your source for Reliability and Bias here.
- Be civil, No violations of TOS. It’s OK to say the subject of an article is behaving like a (pejorative, pejorative). It’s NOT OK to say another USER is (pejorative). Strong language is fine, just not directed at other members. Engage in good-faith and with respect! This includes accusing another user of being a bot or paid actor. Trolling is uncivil and is grounds for removal and/or a community ban.
- No memes, trolling, or low-effort comments. Reposts, misinformation, off-topic, trolling, or offensive.
- Vote based on comment quality, not agreement. This community aims to foster discussion; please reward people for putting effort into articulating their viewpoint, even if you disagree with it.
- No hate speech, slurs, celebrating death, advocating violence, or abusive language. This will result in a ban. Usernames containing racist, or inappropriate slurs will be banned without warning
We ask that the users report any comment or post that violate the rules, to use critical thinking when reading, posting or commenting. Users that post off-topic spam, advocate violence, have multiple comments or posts removed, weaponize reports or violate the code of conduct will be banned.
All posts and comments will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis. This means that some content that violates the rules may be allowed, while other content that does not violate the rules may be removed. The moderators retain the right to remove any content and ban users.
That's all the rules!
Civic Links
• Congressional Awards Program
• Library of Congress Legislative Resources
• U.S. House of Representatives
Partnered Communities:
• News
view the rest of the comments
The latest batch of tankie propaganda is that it doesn't matter if you vote because no election is ever decided by a single vote. Ignoring the hilarity of the people using collective action as an argument saying that, this is why it matters. Because local and even state elections often have ridiculously small margins
Tankies have been on that one for awhile now
They'll straight up mock you for even suggesting that voting is effective at anything
"you're stupid if you think that will accomplish anything" and "they are the same party" is pretty old hat.
Haven't seen the argument that individual votes don't matter so individuals shouldn't vote until recently. Is kind of a step up since it plays to the smug factor
I just say to them, "so don't vote. Not my problem." They don't know what to do about that.
I too don't know how to respond when someone tells me to do exactly what I had planned to do and was advocating for others to do?
We can't have another 2016.
You are advocating for others to not vote?
No. But by not disputing stupidity, you are
Your witty response is to agree with them
It's not a witty response. I honestly don't give a shit if they don't vote. If they do vote, it will be for someone like Jill Stein or whatever dumbass the Libertarians are running this year, so fuck them.
Voting is the only thing that changes the rules. Protests, donations, volunteering, etc. are all meant to influence voting. Voting is the only thing that works.
No, money can't buy everything. It can only influence. You are not going to bribe a Republican to raise taxes, or a (real, not fake) Democrat to vote for Trump.
...voting is very much not the only thing. Sure, it's important, but there's far far more to politics than just voting.
Protests are definitely not just to influence voting, unless you also mean "influencing politicians to propose and vote for law changes"
Tankie = nice useful idiot for effective pincer maneuver from the right.
While the right galvanizes their voters with "these very limited interventions is communism"
Tankies undermine the left's enthusiasm: "Not left enough" to make a difference.
Oh yeah? Enjoy the current supreme Court.