Anonymous #1 4w

I personally don’t believe in withholding votes in protest either but I get why others do

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Anonymous #1 4w

Not voting is just as bad as voting for the worst candidate

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Anonymous OP 4w

It’s not, but I understand your anger and frustration

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Anonymous #1 4w

Not voting you’re giving the other candidate more chances to win. Our elders didn’t march, get killed beaten and tormented for you to be protesting against voting. They fought for us to vote.

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Anonymous OP 4w

No it’s not. Because you don’t know they would have voted for your preferred candidate either. It would be nice if they did. Do not blame voters. Blame the party for failing voters. Blame the party for failing to adopt populist ideas. Blame the party for failing to give the people a candidate they want to see in office. Blame the party for not listening to constituents. Blame the party for failing YOU. Not your voters. Accountability is on party leaders and party leaders alone

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You’re like thiiiiiis close to class consciousness but you’re missing the mark so bad I’d also like to add even if every single third party voter voted for Harris, Trump still would have won. That assumes the right leaning third party voters would have even voted for Harris

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Exactly this election was my first time to vote. I stood in that long line and I voted. Everyone kept saying “it’s no point of voting.” Blk ppl kept saying “It’s not our fight, we just gone sit back.” Yeah and look where it got us it is our fight. Didn’t they just erase the blm road? Exactly they are arresting anyone including blk ppl.

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Please I beg of you to wake up and realize the party divide is a tool political elite use to redirect anger and frustration to the very people you need to be fighting WITH to stand up against our government and their oppressions to us. They are not the enemy. You’re doing exactly what they want you to do so they can stay in power please you’re so close

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Anonymous #1 4w

this is more than a party divide. this is TRUMP. trump is not a regular president. The job was to keep trump out of office, period. yall keep acting like this was a regular presidential run

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I am a disabled queer woman that lives in literal poverty but go off

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Anonymous #1 4w

yeah girl I bet. Like I said u have a home and a bed? also ur white lmao? Plsss

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I’ve lost my job, my health insurance, which means my medication (that’s my ability to LIVE and MOVE), I’ve lost any safety in being open with my sexuality and relationships, I’ve lost my health care rights, reproductive rights, I’ve lost my faith in my marriage protections, and I don’t blame a single fellow American. I blame every old ass millionaire that keeps buying their way into office. I blame them and them alone.

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Anonymous #2 4w

YOU ARE LITERALLY SO CLOSE TO CLASS CONSCIOUSNESS AND YET INSTEAD OF FIGHTING ARM IN ARM WITH FELLOW VICTIMS OF OPPRESSION YOU WANT TO FIND A REASON IM “MORE PRIVILEGED” THAN YOU AND MAKE IT MORALLY OK TO DISAGREE WITH ME ARE YOU DUMB. DO YOU HEAR YOURSELF RIGHT NOW

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Anonymous #1 4w

And I blame the ppl who voted for him. I blame the ppl who didn’t vote. I’m disabled, a black woman and a college student. So don’t sit here and act like nobody understands.

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I have a bed but no home. I lost my apartment due to rent hikes post covid and a new investor buying my complex. I have a roof over my head to sleep but I am homeless

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Anonymous OP 4w

I don’t. The very people in my community who voted for him are the ones who have paid for my medicine when I’m sick, brought me food when I’m hungry, and wood for the fire to keep me warm. This is literal. Not a metaphor. People have literally done these for me. The most backalley maga Trump supports, knowing who I am and how I feel. THATS community. Those are my people. Not people who voted the same way as me. People who were there. Don’t let the bastards in Congress convince you otherwise

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Anonymous #1 4w

The citizens play a part too because voting is a right. Hell blk women are still fighting for equality and rights. If you don’t vote you can’t expect anything to change. You can’t protest when you didn’t vote. We wouldn’t be in this mess if 1. Ppl researched and voted but this country is so racist and misogynistic they rather go backwards.

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Literally fuck you in the highest capacity. You are an actual dumbass.

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Anonymous OP 4w

Ofc they play a part. They’re the cogs in the machine. But who tells them to turn?

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I am not white. You assumed that. You just don’t want to believe otherwise because God forbid a minority have an opinion that you don’t think they should have. We should all agree with you, right? Every card is stacked against me and I’m not mad at people like you are so I must have some secret “privilege” you don’t, huh?

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You’re right the privilege I have is love in my heart and a community that’s willing to keep filling it. I hope you get the stick out your ass one day so you can fill your heart up too

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Anonymous #1 4w

You’re enabling them that’s the issue I have. Not voting is not a way to protest. This isn’t an election to just say yeah I don’t care I can play around. Like

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Womp womp keep threatening me bc you’re mad I’m correct

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Anonymous #1 4w

no im mad that ur one of those people who always thinks they’re right, hence the condescending savior attitude hence why i assumed ur white… ugh

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Anonymous OP 4w

I agree it’s a poor way to protest. I don’t agree with what they did. I always vote at every single election, local state and federal. But I direct my anger at the system and parties that forced that decision. The people who failed to just say they’ll do the right thing

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Anonymous #2 4w

I’m not trying to save anybody? I’m encouraging people to be angry at the right people. Nobody is getting saved here fam. I think you’re projecting something you’re mad at someone else for onto me

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Sorry you feel that way

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Anonymous #1 4w

But you have to hold everyone accountable. Government, rich ppl and ppl who didn’t vote.

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Anonymous OP 4w

You do! In that order specifically. Voter accountability means nothing until we have government accountability. And that means coming together to force it. We are all on the same team. We are all mad at the same people and the same things. We need to focus on that, coming together and tackling that injustice first. And we can’t do that while pointing fingers at each other and infighting. We just can’t

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Anonymous #1 4w

I’m more frustrated with them because they are going against us and themselves. That’s the issue I’m having. We can’t fight the government when we’re fighting against each other. They’re laughing at us. That’s all I’m saying it won’t work if we aren’t on the same page and side. I’m fighting for equality, rights and freedom. Meanwhile you have some blk ppl who don’t care because they feel like nothing is happening to them. You can’t wait to something happens.

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Anonymous #1 4w

The government will never take accountability. We have to force them until then they don’t care. They are going to keep hurting us and keeping us down and divided. They thrive off of chaos.

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Anonymous OP 4w

The government will, but only when we make them. It’s incredibly deflating idea when you see the news and social media (that inciting iced these divisive ideas for engagement, and thus profit). But go out into your actual community. Talking to the people who are active in it you realize we’re all so different but all just the same. Ofc not everyone and I don’t mean ignore interpersonal injustices and violence, but the people fighting with you come from places you don’t always expect.

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Anonymous OP 4w

You’re mad people are protesting with you? Why? Why do you feel upset (or even threatened) when the people in your corner weren’t there a while ago? Why be mad they weren’t there in November when they’re here NOW. NOW is what’s important! Moving FOWARD is what’s vital to change. Don’t be mad they’re here and push them out saying too little too late. That’s never true. It’s never too late. We can always fight. And encourage people to join us

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Anonymous #1 4w

I try not to read politics on SM and news because they don’t actually tell what’s going on. That’s why I miss journalism actual journalism.

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Anonymous #1 4w

It’s the contradiction of it we been fighting. Now they want to join when they didn’t get what they wanted. You can’t wait till worse happens. Yeah they joined but for how long?

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Anonymous OP 4w

Omg yes! There’s so few people left whose goal is to write and share information, instead of chasing a paycheck no matter what. Which is a manufactured issue too! Make people desperate for money to live and everything falls apart, they’ll do whatever you want them to do

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Anonymous #1 4w

Yes and they don’t get the attention because ppl like gossip more than they like truth. I miss newspapers and actual radio stations that had phone in. I miss when you can actively see what’s happening at that moment and it’s not cropped or edited.

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Anonymous OP 4w

We will never know how long. Nobody can tell the future. But I do know they certainly won’t stay if they’re made to feel unwelcome. They certainly don’t want to join and help when they’re being told it’s their fault. They don’t want to build a community with people that make them feel othered. And we can do those things without absolving them of past mistakes. That doesn’t excuse it. It just shifts our focus

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