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caffeinewitchcraft: saiyanqueenreads: systlin: asneekyfatcat: deadindeathvalley: systlin: brainlessoutofdate: This is so relatable, I’m dying. LOUDER FOR THOSE IN THE BACK For those of you who aren’t going to vote in the 2020 election because Bernie or whoever didn’t win primaries. Not voting is in of itself just as powerful as voting. Fuck this rhetoric. No, it’s not. All that does is let other people…who may hate you and want you dead…decide your future for you. No one gives a shit if you didn’t vote as a protest. It accomplished nothing except to further the interests of the people who hate me and folks like me. Not voting isn’t powerful; it’s rejecting a civic duty that people fought and died for and saying ‘well I don’t care.’ Being able to not care in politics is a privilege in and of itself. This is important! Yeah, I can’t stress this enough, especially in US politics. Like…the government doesn’t just go “Oh no! Not enough people voted so I guess we gotta do the whole thing over again!” Lol, no, that’s not how it works! Instead, the people who do vote–the ones with easy access and/or a monetary incentive to vote– get to decide who’s going into office even though they’re not an accurate representation of the people overall. If you and five of your friends don’t vote, all six of you are worth less than Jeff Bezos getting paid a trillion dollars a second while voting. For every person that doesn’t vote, the voters who are incentivized by classist, sexist, racist politicians level up. -- source link