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no thank you, i'll be pissed off at whatever i want

 

Holy fuck.

God. Fuck. This. So. Fucking. Hard.

 

And I'll keep being pissed off at all of you then.

 

cool cool glad we cleared that up

 

lol i'm getting emotional. like what if my mom didn't escape Laos because of a shitty travel ban in the US? so depressing

 

not to go through it for like the millionth time but i do hope those mad at non voters are more mad at the various ways in which voters are suppressed. we need to push for longer poll hours, more poll locations, automatic registration/same day registration, etc.

 

Queer Eye is also a good show for a bit of wholesomeness in this climate.

 

Fuck anyone vote didn't vote or voted for Trump because somehow they thought Hillary was gonna be as bad as Trump. They were wrong. Hillary may have been bad. But Trump was definitely worse. And while its certainly not entirely the fault of people who stayed home, acting like they are blameless here is ridiculous.

 

well you can either keep complaining about it or do something to change it

 

but hey. don't blame non-voters! They are totally 100% blameless innocents here! How dare you call them out for being part of the problem!

 

you're being ridiculously petty

 

I did do something to help try and change it. Which is more than the people who stayed home can say.

 

"I did not vote, and though it was by default ― MTA as per usual having the same sort of issues they always have that delayed my commute by three hours and prevented me from getting to the polls in time ― I still would not have voted for Hillary Clinton. I would NEVER have voted for Trump, either. Even if I voted third party, which was my intention, it wouldn’t have made a difference, as New York state has long been considered a “blue” state and therefore safe. There are many reasons people did not vote. Let us ask the poor, overworked, disenfranchised who cannot afford to be docked for lateness or for missing a day why they didn’t make a concerted effort to vote. If voting were indeed a constitutional right, why make Americans jump over hurdles to be able to do so?

I considered never writing this piece. I considered not even exercising my own right to free speech. Over-analyzing all the rhetoric that may be thrown my way by folks who somehow want to point fingers and blame people like me for the very reason someone like Trump is in office. I am the daughter of a gay woman. I have family members who are Muslim-American. I am the mother of four brown boys. I am working class and, according to who you ask, uneducated because I have never obtained a college degree. I may not have the language of academia, but I have the ability to think critically. This great nation has sat idly by while water poisons its children. This great nation still disrespects the sanctity of Native land. This great nation has divested resources better acclimated to ensure the stability of low-income communities and invested it into the prison industrial complex. This great nation has decimated my island because of corporate greed."

I'm A Non-Voter, And I'm Not Sorry | HuffPost

 

Why 100 million Americans won’t vote on Tuesday

Who are the three-quarters of adult Americans who didn't vote for Trump?

 

You're literally proving lightnings point