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2020 was... truly unique. It was so hard to stay away from doom scrolling, and I (and many others) were pretty disillusioned by the sad fact that so much of our country legitimately supported the Orange Man. I didn't get a wink of sleep the night of the election because I genuinely considered it to be a make or break decision for America.

My point is that looking back on it, in the end the only real difference I made was at the ballet box. This year I'm going for the Head-in-the-Sand approach. I'm done with the political memes. Done with the Twitter screenshots. It just riles me up and this year I'm gonna do my best to fight that.

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[–] OhmsLawn@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

I'm not party affiliated, but I will vote for the Democratic Party candidate. It wouldn't make any difference in my state, but I do it anyway. My state doesn't swing, so I will probably send some money to Democratic candidates in closest out-of-state Senate races (I don't waste money on sure winners or losers).

It's a hold-my-nose thing, since I'm really only about 50% in agreement with them. I tend to swing farther left on certain issues and near-libertarian-right on others. My primary concern at this point is averting a slide further into fascism. I've spent quite a bit of time in formerly-fascist countries and it's a messy thing to untangle. The scars last for generations.

[–] Alaskaball@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago

Not voting and enjoying a beer

[–] xkforce@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Further develop contingincy plan to GTFO of dodge if the country is insane enough to elect the cheeto man again.

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[–] PowerCrazy@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Not voting for the capitalists. It's the least I can do.

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[–] Hexbear2@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago

Writing in Xi Jinping (no, not that one, a different one)

[–] gibmiser@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

If Trump gets elected again somehow then... I don't know what we can do to fix the country. I can't put into words my feelings about that situation, but I worry it will cause me to no longer believe our country can be saved.

[–] BURN@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Ignore all media, vote for whoever the democratic candidate is.

I realized that all the election media just makes me angry, and I already know who I’m NOT voting for, so there’s really only one choice anyways.

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To vote in it.

[–] shiveyarbles@beehaw.org 6 points 1 year ago (29 children)

A lot of trolling about voting green party, not voting, not voting Biden. Any of these positions is pro Trump, and that's the simple truth.

So admit that at least, you WANT a dictatorship.

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[–] Hobart_the_GoKart@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've been dreading it since 2020. I might turn my phone off the entire year.

I wish I could let everyone who's going to text me know that I've already made a decision and they don't need to waste their time or mine.

[–] superfly_samurai@lemmy.one 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think it was Lewis Black who said, "I don't know if you've noticed, but the two party system in this country is a bowl of shit looking at itself in the mirror."

I vote for who earns my vote. I refuse the forced choice of two terrible options.

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[–] Kwakigra@beehaw.org 6 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Not in a state where my vote counts so it doesn't matter much. My political plans are trying to avoid getting thrown in jail per the popular bipartisan SB 686 for being too outspoken about opposing the genocide of Palestinians.

Since the 2010 Citizens United decision when the supreme court legalized bribery, the best I've been able to hope for is a managed and slow as possible decline into a feudal-like state with a heritable and defined noble and peasant class. Hopefully nuclear war will prevent the worst possible consequences of climate change so I can have a little hope while I'm being vaporized.

[–] Thisfox@sopuli.xyz 6 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Being from an "every vote counts" country with compulsory voting, this seems like such an alien response to me.

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[–] TheAlbatross@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It's gonna be a shit show. Two shit choices again blowing hot air every which way with billion dollar advertising campaigns.

The area I live in is wildly deeply democrat so my vote is irrelevant anyway, so I'm just voting third party. And until then I'm gonna try to avoid the whole mess.

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