• Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    10 hours ago

    There is a special kind of laugh for the useful idiots who blame non-voters for not voting rather than the party leadership of the party they wanted to win for refusing to do the bare minimum to turn those non-voters into voters.

    It’s the same kind of laugh reserved for people who, when their own team plays horribly and loses to a crap team, blame the referee.

    • JuxtaposedJaguar@lemmy.ml
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      7 hours ago

      I bet most of the people who didn’t vote didn’t even know the platforms of the parties beyond a few generic sound bites.

      Anyway, voting is a civic duty; it doesn’t matter if none of the parties’ platforms excite you, it’s your job as a citizen to vote for the good of your country. Most adults go to the dentist even if they don’t get a toy afterwards.

      • Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        6 hours ago

        Well, I too think voting is a civic duty.

        My point being that judging by the levels of voting abstention all over the World, many (probably most) people, don’t think that.

    • glitchdx@lemmy.world
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      10 hours ago

      there’s enough blame to go around for the non voters AND the dem leadership to be at fault for harris’s loss.

      Stopping trump should have been a good enough reason to get more people voting AND the dems should have done more to get those votes. Both are true.

      • ramjambamalam@lemmy.ca
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        2 hours ago

        Do Americans not have any “protest” votes, either third party candidates, or “declining” your ballot? To me, that shows that you are politically engaged and willing to take a few minutes out of your day to do your civic duty, rather than being apathetic and/or lazy.