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The fundamental tenet of a working democracy is voting. Everyone should have a vote and everyone should exercise their right to vote. To that end we have been seeing posts attempting to shame/mock or otherwise influence people not to vote. While this is a meme community, the idea that people shouldn’t vote goes against the fundamentals of a democracy by the people and for the people. To that end, we are adding a new rule that disallows posts that discourage or shame people from voting. This doesn’t mean that you can’t address how people vote, but even those who don’t agree with you and your political views should still vote. We all should. Everyone. Part of the reason we are in the mess we are in now is because participation in democracy is abysmal. Posts discouraging people from voting are essentially propaganda and will be removed.

PoliticalMemes is a community for having fun at the expense of our political hellscape we find ourselves in. People not voting is a big part of why.

We are taking feedback on this change, please let us know if you agree or disagree in the comments and why.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

can you give an example of the kind of post you are talking about?

[–] [email protected] -5 points 10 months ago (2 children)

This is an example of one that is getting a lot of reports today. https://alexandrite.app/lemmy.world/post/11948936

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

i think it's pretty obvious that the post you linked is NOT discouraging voting. it's clowning democrats. but there are comments in that thread that are discouraging people from voting if they are considering someone besides a democrat or a republican, and it is reasonable to curtail that kind of activity.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (3 children)

there are comments in that thread that are discouraging people from voting if they are considering someone besides a democrat or a republican, and it is reasonable to curtail that kind of activity.

jfc, can you people not hear yourselves?? 🤦‍♀️

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

America is a democracy NO WAIT YOU CAN'T VOTE FOR SOMEONE ELSE THAN THESE TWO PEOPLE THAT'S ILLEGAL

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago

i know what i said, but i don't know what you're saying.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 10 months ago

They hate authoritarianism, unless they’re the ones doing it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

What is the verdict on this comment from that post?