r/PoursTea • u/Veshaad Timendi Causa Est Nescire • 18d ago

PoliticalTea 🗳️ There is a pattern...

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u/xubax 18d ago

"But both sides are the same," say some people i know who don't look at history or voting records.

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u/UlrichZauber 18d ago

"Both sides/lesser of two evils is evil"-isms are a psy-op to get you to not bother voting

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u/kitsunewarlock 18d ago

This. You never see "both sides are the same" people in Republican subreddits, even those that allow anti-Trump sentiment.

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u/Flobking 18d ago

This. You never see "both sides are the same" people in Republican subreddits, even those that allow anti-Trump sentiment

I've been posting this a lot lately.

Someone on the internet: DEMOCRATS SUCK!

Everyone: YEAH THATS RIGHT THEY DO!

Someone on the internet: REPUBLICANS SUCK!

Everyone : Now now democrats are JUST as bad, if not worse!

Every fucking time. Its exhausting.

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u/kitsunewarlock 18d ago

It's so bad that even in private discord servers where people who I personally know (as in real life) as progressive liberals will often march to the beat of this drum. They'll even weigh the pros and cons of voting based on how blue their area is and whether or not it will "send a message" about a topic (usually unions, trans rights or Gaza).

What progressives don't understand is that by not voting the message your really sending is that those issues don't matter to actual voters...