• Queue@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    2 months ago

    Hey I’m voting for Harris, I just think its important to call out bad takes from anyone, including those who I vote for. I do it for my local and my federal offices. I email my republican congress members (they don’t respond beyond the default robot reply) and I complain to my democratic senators.

    • corsicanguppy
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      2 months ago

      Hey I’m voting for Harris, I just think its important to call out bad takes from anyone

      Oh god; how many fucking times this has been explained.

      1. publically disparage imperfect non-conservative leadership candidate
      2. fewer people vote for that person because of the sea of over-advertised issues - which exist on every candidate but are associated with just the one
      3. fewer people voting - low voter turnout - has been shown many times to inordinately favour conservative candidates because of their strong loyalty uber-alles schtick
      4. conservative candidate wins
      5. 90% of people are worse off, and are sad, and all from ‘calling out bad takes from anyone’.

      Preserve the ability to protest. Then protest afterward if we still have the right.