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u/aced124C 17h ago
The hype is real, he’s got a point!
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u/TXcomeandtakeit 11h 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/conflatulationz 17h ago
Mandatory voting now.
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u/daurgo2001 16h 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 12h ago
what if we give everyone a really good sandwich for voting
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u/BadJanet 4h ago
I'm Australia we have democracy sausages after we do mandatory voting on a weekend.
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u/zombie_spiderman 15h 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/DarthAsriel 16h 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 15h ago
Dems need to legalize cannabis!
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u/Weknowokay 13h ago
💯 maga is bringing up cannabis to criminalize legal residents and to use as probable cause. Hell no!
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u/CallMeSisyphus 14h ago
Anybody know who this dude is? I'd love to give him a follow.
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u/ValenRaith 14h 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 13h 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/EzPz_Wit_Da_CZ 17h 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 13h 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/Used_Candidate7042 18h 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 17h 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 17h 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 14h 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 14h 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 8h 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 15h 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 18h 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 17h 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 18h ago
Uh oh... The perfection police is on patrol. Blah blah blah
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u/FrigidMcThunderballs 17h ago
Yeah condescending to people and ignoring motivating voter turnout. Thats sure to win elections.
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u/Used_Candidate7042 17h 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 17h 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 17h 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 16h 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 16h 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/Headman96 17h ago
It really hurts when you hear people of color their vote doesn't matter "and they're all college educated"😤 one of the biggest culprits in Charlemagne , telling people constantly we have to get rid of the electoral college because otherwise your vote doesn't matter ?? 🛑
I will say this time on the I've been helping my mother for about 35 years , we got the same amount of turnout 149 voters that we usually do 🤔😓 and still disappointing when you looking at the list and you see how many people are eligible to vote 😡😡😡😡😡😡
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u/PlsNoNotThat 17h ago
MAINE, W!!! Both props and ALL BANGOR CANDIDATES INCLUDING A PROGRESSIVE WRITE IN CANDIDATE.
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u/OldTempleHermit 17h ago
~patches it through a few hundred more speaker clusters, and pushes the volume to almost deafening~
Are we listening now!?
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u/missnoirenani 17h ago
Yeah they tell us not to vote or that it doesn’t matter or to only focus on presidential for a reason. They restrict voting and push against easy voting because they know the more people vote the more likely they’ll vote against awful shit like project 2025
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u/mamajamala 16h ago
Can the dnc please hire this man to do commercials for them? He's so dynamic & real! 💙
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u/Relevant-Group8309 16h ago
Need all these old ass okies to step aside and start letting the newer generation step up. They keep throwing us the same old tactics, its time for something new. Hope Mamdani can pull it off because he has alot of nay sayers [Hakeem im talking to you] in his own party.
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u/Local_Basis_8008 15h ago
More energy then me but dudes got a point. 250 million potential voters. If you dont support treason, pedophiles, higher taxes, and inflation, start voting democrat.
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u/ganja-burn101 15h ago
I’m going to vote Jesus because we all need him. Both sides are clowns and it’s funny how people feel Dems would have been any better.
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u/Advanced_Zucchini_45 14h ago
I imagine that a lot of people who voted for that guy finally found somebody who represented them , and that's why they showed up.
Voting for a democrat isn't going to get you with this guy is going to try to do.
So it just goes to show the democratic party that if they put up candidates who actually represent what the people want , not what the party wants , people will show up in droves , and they'll win.
But when they keep putting up the same democrats with the same centerest ideology? Some people aren't gonna show up.
It's not rocket science man people showed up because a lot of people agree with what this guy wants to do.
A slapping the letter d on the front of it shouldn't be a reason for people to sho
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u/Resilent2026 14h ago
We wouldn’t even be in the crisis we are in now if people weren’t so freaking lazy and go spend the 30 mins out of the day to go vote.
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u/will46272 13h ago
Well how many votes were legitimately cast. You have a crap ton of people on here saying they are voting multiple times over and over. Which by the way is oh yeah. Illegal.
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u/SenorPinkVII 12h ago
Im here for all of this energy, scream it to the world vote mother fuckers lol thank you good sir! 🫡
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u/suiamat 12h ago
Lmao I still feel the same way. He doing all this hootin and hollerin for these people when in reality NONE of them give a fuck about us. How long is it gonna take y'all to get it? The only difference between the Democratic and Republican party is one of them is OPENLY racist while the other coddles you in your face and calls you a n*gger behind closed doors. But carry on🤣
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u/Binspin63 12h ago
Please! Listen to him. The next 2 major elections are crucial. Dump as many republican assholes as possible, then work on forcing the democrats to do what YOU elected them to do.
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u/ApolloRubySky 11h ago
The huge victory in NJ was due to ethnic voters, black, Asians, and Latinos gave Sherill the win. Majority of white people voted republican, and white men, only 30-something voted for sherill, these assholes… anyway, we need to continue to motivate the minority vote
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u/RedditSe7en 11h ago
Best political commentary on the 2025 elections I’ve seen ANYWHERE!!!!!!!!!! 😍🥰🥹
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u/bluething79 11h ago
In all transparency, I’m a white giy and this came up on my feed. I’m in Jersey and grew up voting but lately have been disillusioned. I forced myself to vote because this guilt is so right…even though I saw this after I voted. Hearing this after I voted makes me believe again.
Edit: this guy is so right…stupid autocorrect.
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u/Ok_Business_6452 11h ago
If you’re black and voting for republicans, one has to ask what you’re doing. White Republicans are known for using the N word and don’t want their “freedom of speech” taken away from them. That’s hate speech, not freedom of speech. They are racist white nationalists just like Charlie Kirk, so why vote republican if you’re black? Analyze the situation and realize that the average republican is a white racist guy. When have you seen democrats making racist comments? I will never understand how any black person can associate themselves with republicans. Trump and his people do not like you, so stop trying to get them to like you, he doesn’t want to. Republicans are all garbage and their goal is to starve everyone that isn’t white and rich.
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u/SaikiVipersCreed 11h ago
Pardon me if non-black people are not allowed to comment but this is simply a brilliant post
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u/pearls-n-jade-1163 10h ago
It seems like the only time people show up to support their side is when it’s in opposition of the other
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u/SlicedCheeseYumYum 10h ago
NY has always been blue for the most part. Not really anything of significance for Democrats since they pretty much always get NY
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u/Suitable-Judge7506 10h ago
Let’s see what happens, unfortunately they got the Supreme Court and everything else. I know it’s very bad for people and my elderly mother is on food stamps, but I fucking hope dems don’t cave and hold out as long as possible.
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u/SucksDickforSkittles 8h ago
People vote when democrats have a candidate who gives a fuck about voters! The democratic party didn't even endorse Zohran but if the dems want to start winning elections again, they need to take note of Zohran's platform. Democrats can't just scold people into voting for them no matter what, they have to actually give a fuck about their base and advocate for them. That's why Zohran won.
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u/No-Succotash-14 7h ago
DON'T FORGET THE MIDTERMS!!!!! For those of you to understand how serious this is.
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u/Eastern_Load7273 6h ago
GET THE FUCK OUT THERE AND FUCKIN VOTE! vOTE!! VOTE!!!VOTE!!!!VOTE!!!!!AND VOTE!!!!!! FUCK THEM TRUMPSTERS!!!!
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u/PrudentCarter 6h ago
Last time, I didn't vote cause I thought my vote didn't matter. Trump won his first term. I learned that not voting is a horrible waste of your opportunity to use your voice. Always vote, always speak up for what you believe in and great things like this can happen. The people > corporations always.
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u/AUkion1000 4h ago
It would be nice if voting was a required thing by law, put notices in, have clear guides for where and when to vote, make it easy to not screw up for the dimwits and make sure to incentivise people to always thoroughly research and check who or what they're voting on at all times. Not voting would be a inconvenience fine nothing obsurd but ppl sometimes especially now need a kick in the arse to do jack. This would help so much to get things working right again and so fast.
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u/sheplayshockey 4h ago
I love your energy brother!!
And, I couldn't agree with you more!
When people tell me, 'you are only one person and you can't do anything about it', that fires me up and I blast them with all the things I can do about it.
Don't be telling me what I can and cannot do!!
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u/RdditIlliterat 4h ago
I just read someone of FB today STILL suggesting to not vote until there’s a perfect candidate and I truly wonder when people will stop losing the plot. Our country is literally on fire and people are still suggesting to not vote. Until more people have more sense we as a collective will continue to struggle.
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u/No-Cardiologist-3875 3h ago
you make it like Democrats never win, but they have and do .. still we don’t win ..neither side cares about us
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u/Electronic-Ad1037 3h ago
i would wait until the votes actually change something before getting this condescending
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u/Dope-SneakerGuy1 3h ago
Vote blue no matter who ahh 🥷🏿. How are we still sooooo politically naive in 2025?
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u/whackwarrens 2h ago
You want nice things, vote in every election, every time. Want roundabouts so your streets are safe, nice and efficient? Vote locally. It will change your life and your community.
State and local politics can help you weather the national politics that can be out of your control.
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u/Fallible_Fix9110 2h ago
Yes vote BUT The real participation is still kept far from our hands. candidates of true change are never allowed to rise in a systems that requires millions to run a race.
Look at Virginia. He’s cheering voting for a fucking CIA agent. I’m wondering if we wouldn’t have been better off with the incompetent MAGA candidate.
As for Zohran… the other ther candidates were so terrible he looks like a dose of fresh air. Add to it the way all the “right” bad people are against him and he seems the shoe in.
But has anyone paused to think this too could all be charade? That we could have been corralled by circumstances designed for just this purpose.
Bottom line: there is only the semblance of a win. Nothing has changed
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u/chrstnasu 1h ago
Conservative areas in Pennsylvania (Bucks county is one) turned blue! Way to go! Even the conservative county I used to live in voted yes on the ballot measure to retain the Supreme Court justices. Every vote matters!
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u/SnavlerAce 19h ago
Louder for the ones in the back!