context also heavily welcome.

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    It doesn’t matter for shit if you protest. What matters is votes in elections.

    In response to yet another thread encouraging people to get out and protest. By all means, do that. But if you really want to make an impact, vote.

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      Too many people forget that at the end of the day, if we’re willing to do what it takes, the U.S. is still a democracy and votes are what choose our leaders. Lots of problems and lots of obstacles, but the people saying that voting doesn’t matter are lying to themselves if not to everyone else.

      It’s a lie that only benefits the people who don’t want us to vote. If they put that much effort into the lie, it proves that voting matters enough for them to try to stop it.

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      But many of them didn’t listen, so now we’re all screwed. Hopefully not permanently, but it’s looking grim.