• venusaur@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    To be fair, your vote statistically doesn’t matter in some states. I’ll make a bet with somebody that if I don’t vote in my state it won’t change anything.

    Dems really phoned this one in.

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      4 months ago

      There’s plenty of downticket races that potentially directly affect your life more that matter.

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      4 months ago

      I don’t vote in my state it won’t change anything

      Wrong, wrong and wrong.
      Your vote matters down-ballot. Your vote matters for a mandate. Your vote matters because you will pay attention. The trick is to get people to feel the way you do so they can rule you.

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        4 months ago

        You wanna make a bet? If I don’t vote, my state will still vote Harris.

        The trick is actually to trick people like you into thinking they have control when they actually don’t.

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          4 months ago

          I would argue that even if your state is guaranteed to go one way or the other (aside from down ballot races which are obviously very important) there’s still value in voting for president, if only to illustrate the discrepancy between the popular vote and the electoral college. The higher we run up the margins, the more it makes it obvious to everyone that we need to ditch the electoral college.

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      4 months ago

      Federal, maybe, but it’s still important to vote for down ticket races, and your presidential vote can at least be a statistic toward the popular vote count. I get what you mean though, I’m from a consistently blue state.