1. lynati:

    sydney-empire:

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    mizoguchi:

    pettydavis:

    so when trump decides to cancel the election altogether what are you liberal heauxes gonna do??? vote to turn it back on????

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    Instead of guilting young people into community action and making voting seem almost useless, how bout we share some resources about how to vote and overwhelmingly encourage doing so as soon as possible, hm?

    If you’re not sure where to start with voting this year - either bc it’s your first time or bc you usually vote on E-Day in person and now that may be an option, or bc you’re intimidated by structural barriers - here’s a good place to start:

    https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/how-to-vote-2020/

    How To Vote In The 2020 Election
    A guide to in person and mail in voting, and voter registration deadlines, during the COVID-19 pandemic.
    FiveThirtyEight

    A bit sus how a bunch of posts have been popping up lately targeted towards young liberal people about how voting is useless 😳

    A trend I’ve been seeing among non-voters is that “direct action” is more important than voting, but more often than not, the people who make these claims don’t even partake in any form of direct action.

    If you do nothing but spew anarchist bullshit, then you’re not helping anyone. If you actually care about the state of our country, should AT THE VERY LEAST vote. It’s common sense.

    Also? You can both vote AND take direct action? It’s not like you have to pick one or the other.

    Vote, because it might be all that you need to do locally to get the change you want- which if it does, will free up your resources to help those in areas where it *isn’t* enough.

    Even in areas where voter suppression is high, still go vote, because they aren’t suppressing every single vote, and YOURS might be one that gets counted. In some places, they’re only set up to fuck with the numbers up to a certain percentage, so if MORE than that percentage shows up to vote, they’re stuck with the result.

    Don’t make it easy for them to steal the election by staying home on election day. Hell, if you’re voting by mail-in ballot, you don’t even have to leave home in order to make them deal with your vote!

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