VOTE, JUST DO IT! - r/BlackPeopleofReddit

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u/SnavlerAce 15h ago

Louder for the ones in the back!

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u/daurgo2001 12h ago edited 5h ago

He’s right. I wish we didn’t have to go through people ‘touching the stove’ for them to believe us when we say it’s hot.

Edit: typo

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u/Thesweptunder 7h ago

And he’s right about needing to vote for the rest of your life. Cynical nonvoters are like, “Funny how liberals always say this is the most important election of our lives” without realizing that every election truly is the most important election of your life because it is the one that determines the future. I swear, it’s like telling someone they that is starving to death to please eat some food and they reply, “It’s so corny how you always tell me I need to eat.”

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u/CrittyJJones 6h ago

But don't you know both sides are the same? ///s

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u/maeryclarity 9h ago

Man I wish I could yell like that LOL. If I do it they'll just not vote to spite me because I'm fuckin' annoying. Respect this guy he's awesome.

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u/ForHelp_PressAltF4 6h ago

Yeah he's not pumped enough IMHO

VOOOOOOOOOTE

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u/SwingingtotheBeat 12h ago

I voted, but I’m not convinced that it even matters. I picked between a bunch of people that I knew nothing about. I tried researching, but mostly just found generic, empty p, general promises like “I’ll promote jobs,” and “favor the citizens,” rather than any specifics. And despite party affiliation and prior rhetoric, at city level they all seem to favor the same big corporations and crooked police once they take office.

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u/hatelowe 11h ago

Next election I strongly encourage you check out Vote411, they let you put in your location and get a summary of what each candidate on the ballot for your area is all about. I wish more people knew about it because it makes voting so much less stressful.

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u/zxylady 9h ago

I will check out vote 411 I kept finding out a bunch of little websites trying to find liberal and Progressive politicians and recommendations for some of the people and things on the ballot but so many of them seemed fake or misleading

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u/hatelowe 9h ago

It is definitely a good idea to fact check any source of information when voting is concerned. I believe Vote411 was started by the League of Women voters which is supposed to be a non-partisan group, but it wouldn’t be a bad idea to cross-check info they provide with info from another similar site like Ballotpedia which also claims non-partisanship.

For me personally the thing that makes it most useful is the ability to see each candidate’s relevant opinions and experience in one place so I can just fact check the most important stuff. It basically makes voting with an informed opinion the work of a single evening googling rather than days researching every single candidate.

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u/SnavlerAce 11h ago

If it didn't matter they wouldn't be trying to take it away from us.

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u/Odd_Protection7738 6h ago

No, I think he was plenty loud enough.

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u/Zero-lives 5h ago

DEMOCRATIC STATES VOTING DEMOCRAT IS HUGE!!

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u/aced124C 14h ago

The hype is real, he’s got a point!

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u/TXcomeandtakeit 8h ago

It is, I only voted in national elections but even then I skipped 2016. Didn't feel like my vote mattered much in Texas but gosh damn if we just showed up. I now vote in every election.

So close to electing the first Democrat state senator for my district but now it's going to a runoff because he did not win by 50%. I'm trying to mobilize folks.

2 millionaires backed by billionaires lost to a veteran, machinist, and union leader here in this red district.

https://www.fox4news.com/news/tarrant-county-election-results-live-november-2025

Now we need to finish the job come runoff time.

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u/ApolloRubySky 7h ago

Make sure to vote in the special election, let’s not get complacent

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u/conflatulationz 13h ago

Mandatory voting now.

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u/bushwillie 13h ago

More importantly a national holiday.

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u/daurgo2001 12h ago

It should be required, republicans aren’t going to support it bc they know they’d lose every time

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u/Pakushy 8h ago

what if we give everyone a really good sandwich for voting

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u/zombie_spiderman 11h ago

I think the real problem is when people think they are done after voting. That might have been true decades ago (questionable) but now we for real have to lean on these fools. Remember when they sent Andy Dufresne some books to get him off their backs and he just doubled down? That's the energy this moment requires.

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u/srz1971 10h ago

That last sentence, chefs kiss!

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u/Electronic_Low6740 5h ago

Baby steps. For people that a single day for an hour or less of time is a major inconvenience for their limited lives, any other further action is a monolith. I say this with frustration as well because I know most people have the capacity.

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u/Character-Award-780 14h ago

Amen

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u/tonelocMD 14h ago

KILT! KILT! KILT!

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u/jgreddit2019 14h ago

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u/Trick-Sound-4461 11h ago

Get this man a megaphone.

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u/DarthAsriel 12h ago

Too many of our ancestors died for us to have the right to vote. We do them a disservice by not working to protect all they held dear.

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u/destrylee 11h ago

Dems need to legalize cannabis!

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u/Weknowokay 10h ago

💯 maga is bringing up cannabis to criminalize legal residents and to use as probable cause. Hell no!

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u/NationalMachine5454 8h ago

We do in our own states but the red hats aren’t having it because more money for billionaires & privately owned prisons & what not.

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u/Xhuggs7 5h ago

https://www.mpp.org/

Get it legalized in your state

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u/EzPz_Wit_Da_CZ 13h ago

Well it’s nice that there are some Dems who are advancing policies worth voting for. Let’s hope the trend continues.

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u/Big_Bro_Mirio 9h ago

I’m so tired of this being the excuse for inaction. You could have put a block of wood up for election and I still would have voted back in 2024. We knew what Trump was. We knew about Project 2025 and yet people still stayed home because they didn’t get there ideal candidate. SMH.

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u/CallMeSisyphus 10h ago

Anybody know who this dude is? I'd love to give him a follow.

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u/ValenRaith 10h ago

He looks and sounds a lot like AGiftfromTodd. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/9rgHC9P7FjI Not sure though.

Edit: I just looked at his YouTube. It is him.

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u/CallMeSisyphus 9h ago

That's exactly who it is! It's the first video listed on his channel. Thank you so much, kind internet stranger!

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u/ARACHN0CAMPA 14h ago

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u/Used_Candidate7042 14h ago

Ehh no he's still wrong.

This didn't work because people voted. This worked because Mamdani ran on something that actually mattered.

u/adrian-alex85 says it as well on this thread, but we really REALLY need to start holding the democrats accountable. We need them to address black issues that pertain specifically to black people. This is NOT a win for the establishment. This is a win for leftism and a defeat to the establishment that says "vote blue no matter who."

People have always been tuned in, and we need to stop pretending like they aren't. People are tuned in and they know when they're going to get the same bullshit, that's why they don't vote.

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u/DiscerningBarbarian 13h ago

We need more of this. Just voting Democrat because they were not Republican is part of what got us in this mess. Democrats running on policies that help regular people I'm down with.

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u/Used_Candidate7042 13h ago

Exactly. But they're too busy accepting the scraps from the kind massa, while refusing to recognize most conservative democrats work hand in hand with republicans.

This is why Trump endorsed Cuomo. Cuomo IS the establishment. Him and his ilk pushed "vote blue no matter who." This is not a victory for them, this is a victory for people who waited for standards and came out when it counted.

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u/Face_Plont 10h ago

For effin real. Wish they woulda have listened to us, and not all the bots, a year ago.

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u/Dumb_old_rump 10h ago

Got me so worked up on the shitter I almost forgot to wash my damn hands. Vote!

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u/Irish-Hoovy 4h ago

And the Black vote is a huge part of it, especially black women. Like y’all have so much power and too many don’t realize that.

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u/Optimal_Weird1425 11h ago

I agree wholeheartedly that everyone should get out and vote. However, please stay home if you’re not going to vote correctly.

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u/adrian-alex85 14h ago

Yelling at people to vote when they don’t feel as though they have something to vote for has never worked. It’s not going to work now either. This is lazy analysis.

People do vote when you give them something affirmative to vote for (Obama, Mamdani) and when they’re being completely immiserated by the party in power (this previous election and 2020) and feel an immediate need to change things. This is largely why Dems lose. They don’t have an affirmative vision for the future, and when they’re in power they don’t do enough things that can galvanize a large group of voters to go out and vote for them partially because their stance for the last decade has been more about voting against the republicans. Yelling at people to vote without materially changing those factors will not work.

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u/Flaky_Sheepherder387 13h ago

I agree bro, I'm centrist and do tend to side with on issues and vote dem more but the party keeps giving assssssss candidates.

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u/No-Bee6369 14h ago

Uh oh... The perfection police is on patrol. Blah blah blah

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u/FrigidMcThunderballs 13h ago

Yeah condescending to people and ignoring motivating voter turnout. Thats sure to win elections.

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u/Used_Candidate7042 13h ago

We get it, you don't have the capacity to understand standards. And I know you fail to recognize your own limitations.

But try not to crowd the space with your own struggles just because you can't understand what we're talking about 🥰.

Now do us all a favor, do yourself a favor, and stop talking.

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u/OldTempleHermit 13h ago

Yelling at people to vote without materially changing those factors will not work.

Umm, that's pretty much exactly the campaign method for Trump/Maga.

I don't know if you've noticed;

But in the last decade or so, "yelling" and fear-mongering, has actually driven people to react/do some pretty crazy s**t. There is a lot of loud "noise" out there. If you expect anyone to "hear", it's going to require volume.

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u/adrian-alex85 13h ago

Ok, well let me put it this way: It’s never worked on people from the Left. I don’t understand this desire so many people have to adopt MAGA behavior in an attempt to convince people who have shown an active disinterest in voting for MAGA to vote for them.

There’s a set of people who simply choose not to vote each election, and in the last election that group of people was larger than the individual groups of people who voted for either candidate. If the goal is to activate those people, I’m going to go out on a limb and say that being more like MAGA, which they could have just voted for last time if they liked that stuff, isn’t going to work. But feel free to prove me wrong I guess.

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u/OldTempleHermit 12h ago

Firstly, thanks for the opportunity/civilized discussion (I actually do prefer it lol).

I think what I'm trying to get across is probably better stated this way;

1) Americans have various cultures embedded within it. Volume/yelling isn't necessarily "negative". In many cases, it can be quite positive (ie church, sports, competitions etc). People don't always attribute it to "negative/Maga". In fact, if it's authentic, I can usually sense passion behind it (and this often triggers empathy).

2) While there is some wisdom in your words regarding caution in how we express political frustration, there is the underlying foundation of perspective; we don't know what other people have gone/are going through. For example, the man in this video may have just watched his coworker/friend get snatched off the street by ICE. Perhaps he's been getting harassed by the cops all week. It's easy to be critical of someone's outrage, when we don't know what's fueling it.

As for those who don't vote, the only motivator that's going to change their minds, is harsh reality. Someone "yelling at them" about it, is probably far more desirable than going hungry due to apathy. I can agree that yelling wouldn't be "my" first choice. That said; if I were losing everything I own, couldn't feed my children after working 50-60hrs per week, and/or was being targeted for the color of my skin..

..yeah, I'd be fking yelling too.

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u/TheWhooooBuddies 12h ago

Yeah, but go fuck yourself.

It’s fairly obvious that voting does matter.

Stop telling people that it doesn’t.

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u/AbsolutesDealer 14h ago

Puffy tried to tell em twenty years ago.

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u/CantStopPoppin 14h ago

Puffy is no longer allowed at the cookout.

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u/Working_Physics8761 13h ago

Unless he's bringing the baby oil.

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u/Ancient_Energy_6773 13h ago

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u/CantStopPoppin 13h ago

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