In the northwest corner of Louisiana, a candidate for parish sheriff is demanding a recount after losing by a single vote in an election where more than 43,000 people voted.

  • Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    1 year ago

    Tankies have been on that one for awhile now

    They’ll straight up mock you for even suggesting that voting is effective at anything

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      1 year ago

      I just say to them, “so don’t vote. Not my problem.” They don’t know what to do about that.

      • NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip
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        1 year ago

        I too don’t know how to respond when someone tells me to do exactly what I had planned to do and was advocating for others to do?

        We can’t have another 2016.

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      1 year ago

      “you’re stupid if you think that will accomplish anything” and “they are the same party” is pretty old hat.

      Haven’t seen the argument that individual votes don’t matter so individuals shouldn’t vote until recently. Is kind of a step up since it plays to the smug factor

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      1 year ago

      Voting is the only thing that changes the rules. Protests, donations, volunteering, etc. are all meant to influence voting. Voting is the only thing that works.

      No, money can’t buy everything. It can only influence. You are not going to bribe a Republican to raise taxes, or a (real, not fake) Democrat to vote for Trump.

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        1 year ago

        Protests are definitely not just to influence voting, unless you also mean “influencing politicians to propose and vote for law changes”