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You should post this on x.com or something. Imagine thinking anyone on this site didn't vote.
There's entire groups on Lemmy where you get banned if you support either US party
"voting is wrong" was an incredibly popular position on lemmy
I don't think I've actually seen that in the wild. Usually what I see is either "voting is insufficient" as in, "historically voting has not ended a dictator's career" or just badly disguised bad faith/bot stuff often from accounts banned before I read their comments.
I feel like "voting is wrong" is what a group of the latter (bot farmers/trolls) want folks to believe is a real opinion here but I haven't seen anyone make that argument in good faith. I've only ever seen it made secondhand in a way that makes it about as credible as a sasquatch sighting (which there 100% are people dressing up as the sasquatch to fuck with people, so real sasquatch sightings =/= real sasquatches existing)
people conflated "voting won't save us" with "voting won't do anything". If voting was useless they wouldn't try so hard to stop people from doing it. But also, voting one day a year and shrugging your shoulders 364 days and year cause "I voted" wasn't enough.
You would be quite surprised by the amount of Americans on here who didn't vote. I have come across quite a lot