Post by @darthelmet@lemmy.world

2026-10-18 23:39 UTC

As we all know, if you just keep telling people to vote, eventually they’ll just be like “Yeah! I’m gonna take off work from the job that doesn’t give me time off, go find a polling place, which isn’t close and crowded because the state doesn’t run enough polling places, then try to go there in a town without public transportation! Why didn’t I think of this sooner?” Then they get there and find out that most of the local elections are uncontested and the federal ones have only a choice between no climate policy and climate policy which is insufficient but delays the necessary work until it’s too late. Then after begrudgingly voting, they realize that their districts are so gerrymandered their vote basically didn’t count anyway. Nope, no need to change anything, we just need to keep telling people to go vote. It hasn’t worked yet, but… uh…

Replies (4)

@FlyingCircus@lemmy.world 2026-10-19 03:52

To be clear, this isn’t telling you not to vote. It’s telling you to do more than vote.

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@BanMeFromPosting@lemmy.ml 2026-10-19 14:44

climate policy which is insufficient but delays the necessary work until it’s too late Thats being very generous to the massive fracking bills and military operations (the worlds largest polluter) we see under Biden. Truth is they are both actively harmful. One might be slightly less harmful but they are both stepping heavy on the speeder accelerating us towards climate apocalypse

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@I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world 2026-10-19 15:12

Oh fuck off. Look up early voting in your area. Nearly every state has it, they are available on weekends. Stumble into one and you’ll be in and out in less than 10 minutes. Or you can sit there as an uninformed dumbass and go “Oh woe is me! I haven’t spent 5 seconds looking up how to vote so I’m just gonna sit and complain that it’s all hopeless and pretend there are no alternatives to voting exactly on election day! Oh why must the world be so cruel!?” Learn where and when you can vote early. You have weeks to do it. You are a piece of shit if you can’t be bothered to do that.

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@UnequalExchange@lemmy.world 2026-10-20 06:45

Indeed! Nothing is substantial until it is substantiated. If these poo-liticians and the Killionaires that bribe them actually gave a fuck about the climate they would have enforced policies that substantiated substantial changes DECADES ago when we first started seeing climate change’s effects… Havent seenthat yet… Im starting to think that the people oughta govern themselves and get rid of these Shillionaires and their bribed Poo-litiicians and their mercenary pigs so that we can sunstantiate the substantial changes we want to see for ourselves.

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