The fundamental tenet of a working democracy is voting. Everyone should have a vote and everyone should exercise their right to vote. To that end we have been seeing posts attempting to shame/mock or otherwise influence people not to vote. While this is a meme community, the idea that people shouldn’t vote goes against the fundamentals of a democracy by the people and for the people. To that end, we are adding a new rule that disallows posts that discourage or shame people from voting. This doesn’t mean that you can’t address how people vote, but even those who don’t agree with you and your political views should still vote. We all should. Everyone. Part of the reason we are in the mess we are in now is because participation in democracy is abysmal. Posts discouraging people from voting are essentially propaganda and will be removed.

PoliticalMemes is a community for having fun at the expense of our political hellscape we find ourselves in. People not voting is a big part of why.

We are taking feedback on this change, please let us know if you agree or disagree in the comments and why.

    • FlorianSimon@sh.itjust.works
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      10 months ago

      I guess that if that happened, voting would be the least of your concerns. You’d probably need to prepare to take arms, cause if that happened, the situation would be pretty fucked, and I doubt it’d happen without an accompanying civil war 🤷‍♂️

      Be careful about unrealistic dilemmas. Reasoning in a void leads to disastrous positions that don’t apply in the real world because they are divorced from reality. Context matters a lot, and can’t be erased. There’s almost always a third, fourth, fifth option in reality.

      Answering false dilemmas is the modus operandi of fascism. First, you imagine issues that don’t exist (like a caste of jewish puppeteers), then you apply insane politics to solve the problem you invented †. To be clear, I’m not saying you’re a fascist. I’m just outlining where that line of reasoning could lead you.

      † This precise point is why I despise Attack on Titans and its debased premises. You basically empathize with a full-on fascist answering shitty questions that have no basis in reality.