• Empricorn@feddit.nl
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    Things are not great in the US (and worldwide). But I always get pushback when I encourage people to vote and remind them that this is not North Korea or Russia, your vote still actually matters! Whoever you are, you can help prevent your country’s slide into fascism…

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      your vote still actually matters

      What do you mean? How does a vote matter?

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        Tell me you’re not a woman in Arizona who has an ectopic pregnancy, without telling me etc

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          I have no idea what you’re talking about.

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            There’s an image which explains what I’m talking about

            It is somewhere

            It’s very near

            If you search, I think you will be able to locate it. Don’t give up

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              Still have no idea what you’re talking about.

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                And yet, you’re such a genius at political science that you’ve got essential insights on how voting works that the rest of us aren’t privy to. It is a mystery.

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        When… it is accurately counted and applied? That should be a low bar, but dictators in the aforementioned countries regularly win with more than 100% of the total vote percentage.

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          When… it is accurately counted and applied?

          I don’t follow. How does a vote being accurately counted mean that it matters?

          applied

          Not sure what you mean by this.