• cabbage@piefed.social
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    2 months ago

    Every single non-voter in the country willingly allowed the Republicans to fuck everyone over.

    Edit: Going back decades, obviously. The latest election has nothing to do with the current SCOTUS. And sure, it’s not the American non-voters’ fault they’re brain dead consumers with no will of their own. It’s all very sad, blah blah blah.

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      2 months ago

      Down voted for the truth.

      Say it with me- fuck nonvoters.

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      One way or another, any government which remains in power is a representative government. If your city government is a crooked machine, then it is because you and your neighbors prefer it that way - prefer it to the effort of running your own affairs.

      Hitler’s government was a popular government; the vast majority of Germans preferred the rule of gangsters to the effort of thinking and doing for themselves. They abdicated their franchise.

      —Robert A. Heinlein, Take Back Your Government