Sunshine (she/her)@lemmy.ca to Canada@lemmy.caEnglish · 1 day agoDont Ever Listen To Those Who Claim "Voting is Pointless"lemmy.caimagemessage-square104fedilinkarrow-up1599arrow-down114
arrow-up1585arrow-down1imageDont Ever Listen To Those Who Claim "Voting is Pointless"lemmy.caSunshine (she/her)@lemmy.ca to Canada@lemmy.caEnglish · 1 day agomessage-square104fedilink
minus-squareSoftestSapphic@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up8arrow-down3·16 hours agoI vote in every election but it sure as hell never feels like my vote does anything at all or is even recorded. TBH i don’t think there’s a way to vote our way out of a lot of our issues.
minus-squareUnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down2·11 hours ago If voting changed anything, they’d make it illegal. ~ Emma Goldman Incidentally, a lot of US districts have made voting increasingly difficult to the point of illegality. But I rarely see Votey types grapple with that fact. They either dismiss the disenfranchised as lazy/stupid or ignore this cohort entirely.
I vote in every election but it sure as hell never feels like my vote does anything at all or is even recorded.
TBH i don’t think there’s a way to vote our way out of a lot of our issues.
~ Emma Goldman
Incidentally, a lot of US districts have made voting increasingly difficult to the point of illegality.
But I rarely see Votey types grapple with that fact. They either dismiss the disenfranchised as lazy/stupid or ignore this cohort entirely.