• zanyllama52@infosec.pub
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    5 hours ago

    Abstaining or voting third party is an exercise of choice. If you want your candidate to win, vote for them, as we all should do.

    Vote for the candidate you support. If you don’t support any, you can choose not to vote.

    • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      4 hours ago

      Vote for the candidate you support. If you don’t support any, you can choose not to vote.

      Yes, those are all choices. Just know that everyone else understands the reality of what your vote (abstention) actually means in practice. So just know that you’re being judged.

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      4 hours ago

      Abstaining is the pinical of lazyness, it is my opinion that those who do not participate give up their right to complain about politics until the next election. If you like none of the candidates write in Batman, spoil your ballot by drawing dicks on it, I dont care, you showed up and that alone is the important part.

      And before you what-about-ism areas where voter supression is happening or heavily gerrymandered districts? Yes, this is a problem that must be fixed, but not participating also dosent help that either.

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        4 hours ago

        This I agree with. Vote for whoever you want but for fucks sake vote. People died getting us this right.

        It’s the absolute bare minimum you can do to improve our society