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gulliver

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11. Voting is mandatory. It's self-mandated when we decide to support the left.

Reply to tenderfoot (Original post)

Sat Oct 23, 2021, 12:03 PM

Oct 2021

There will be attempts at voter suppression by the right, of course. There are people on the left who will help the right magnify the effect by wailing and doom posting. They don't matter, because the decision to vote is made. It's self-mandatory. There are no "factors to consider." There is no dependency on inspiration from anyone. There is no capitulation to suppressors. There are no excuses.

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Doom posting is voter suppression. [View all] tenderfoot Oct 2021 OP

Definitely. Although there is some incentive to GOTV when it's close or cost Hoyt Oct 2021 #1

Has that ever been empirically validated? Silent3 Oct 2021 #2

K&R denbot Oct 2021 #3

Totally NJCher Oct 2021 #4

I don't think many are as doomy as they claim to be by their lack of action. Kaleva Oct 2021 #6

Facts are not voter suppression, you can't out organize vote denial and nullification laws and uponit7771 Oct 2021 #5

Precisely malaise Oct 2021 #7

People told me I was a gruesome doom poster and had Scrivener7 Oct 2021 #8

Back in Jan 2020, some people got on my case about getting prepared for the new illness Kaleva Oct 2021 #13

Sort of a fine line between inspiration and depression Walleye Oct 2021 #9

It is. betsuni Oct 2021 #10

Voting is mandatory. It's self-mandated when we decide to support the left. gulliver Oct 2021 #11

Conversely, Tinkerbellism isn't particularly great, either. Sympthsical Oct 2021 #12

K&R PunkinPi Oct 2021 #14

An example today: An a-hole Matt LEWIS from Daily Beast UTUSN Oct 2021 #15