• xantoxis@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    Doing both. The POTUS doesn’t read Lemmy and go “haha these fools are gonna vote for me, I don’t gotta change shit”. To the extent you can influence that office at all, you can do it while simultaneously urging people to vote for the lesser evil.

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      5 months ago

      340 million americans probably don’t read lemmy either, wouldn’t that mean urging people on lemmy to vote for the lesser evil is also ineffectual?

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        5 months ago

        It probably is, but 52k DAU’s isn’t nothing. That’s more than you can reach by phone banking.

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          I imagine the value is also that those people will talk to other people, right?

          Building a movement one voter at a time? Does that sound right?