• Flying Squid@lemmy.worldOP
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    1 year ago

    How do you know how they voted to begin with? Maybe they didn’t vote for those leaders. You know votes in red states aren’t unanimous, right? So, again, sort of sounding like you’re saying they’re getting what they deserve…

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      1 year ago

      Word. I’m here in Ohio and my wife and I didn’t vote for any of this shit. We don’t plan on staying here too too much longer, but there are hundreds of thousands here who also think the cheatin’-ass politicians here are ruining people’s lives but don’t have the luxury to move and are thus stuck here. Fortunately, we did show up back in August to block some underhanded GOP bullshit designed to kill reproductive rights, and hopefully will show up again in November to codify those rights, against their machinations.

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      1 year ago

      I’m not 100% on Throwaway’s side here, but I don’t think that’s what they meant.

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      1 year ago

      You can’t throw away your only voice and then complain about not being heard.

      You don’t vote, then you get exactly what you voted for, what other people want.

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        I’m not talking about people who don’t vote, I’m talking about people who don’t vote for anti-choice Republicans but live in red states. It didn’t work out so well for them, did it?

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          Well that comes back to things like gerrymandering, first past the post, non-preferential voting, no mandatory voting.

          You get what you vote for, if the people who want what you want don’t vote then don’t complain that those who did vote got what they voted for.