• freagle@lemmy.ml
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    22 days ago

    The problem of low voter turnout precedes the Internet. Low voter turnout is a symptom of the problem, it is not the problem itself.

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      22 days ago

      It’s not simple enough to make that statement. You obviously get worse politicians when people don’t vote.

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        22 days ago

        Yeah, I don’t think that’s obvious at all. Voter turnout has very rarely been a deciding factor in elections, and the current analysis by researchers is that voter turnout doesn’t have partisan benefits. In essence, you get the same politicians regardless of voter turnout.

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          22 days ago

          An absolutely ridiculous thing for you to expect people to believe. So fucking transparent what you’re doing. Accelerationist bullshit.

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            22 days ago

            LOL. You have no idea what accelerationism is if you think that what I said is in any way related to accelerationism. You’re just regurgitating things you’ve heard without understanding. Here, do some reading:

            https://www.uniteamerica.org/articles/report-most-americans-votes-dont-matter-in-deciding-elections

            https://www.nationalaffairs.com/publications/detail/does-high-voter-turnout-help-one-party

            https://www.chicagobooth.edu/review/forcing-people-vote-doesnt-change-outcome

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            20 days ago

            I am begging you people to read up on the terms you use. Youre all just saying shit without understanding it. Accelerationism is not “when someone wants something, anything, to happen faster” you oaf. It is not “someone who wants things to get bad really quickly” either.

            It is a specific marxist tendency where those that subscribe to it believe that capital must be nearly completely concentrated in the imperial core in order for the conditions necessary for a successful proletarian revolution to occur. They therefore believe that the faster capital can be accumulated, the faster we can advance. As such they support whomever they consider the most competent administrators of empire. In the US that is, in the eyes of most people, the democratic party. Accelerationists would therefore generally vote for democrats and urge others to do as well.

            Learn what the terms you use mean. If you are trying to argue that republicans are more competent administrators of empire and the arguments the person you are responding to follow the line of reasoning of an accelerationist, then you gotta provide arguments to aid your assertions. I might as well call you a republican, its just as logical as your statement.

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        20 days ago

        Seems like the strategy of voting for any politician no matter what their policy has led us to a point where genocide isn’t even on the ballot anymore, so I don’t know about that.