'People got betrayed': Cardi B says she's not voting in the presidential election - eviltoast
The rapper, who had thrown her support behind Joe Biden in the 2020 general election, said she felt “layers and layers of disappointment” under his administration.
  • revelrous@sopuli.xyz
    623·
    6 months ago

    Cool.

    Now everybody go fucking vote.

    Protest every fucking step of the way. But on 11/5 get your ass to the polls. Voting is not an endorsement, it’s a measure to hold back the christofascist state so more ten year olds don’t have to carry their rapist’s baby to term.

    • TheDemonBuer@lemmy.world
      314·
      6 months ago

      Now everybody go fucking vote.

      Vote for whom? You clearly don’t want me to vote for just anyone, so say the name. Stop being a pussy and say who it is you want me to vote for.

      • revelrous@sopuli.xyz
        393·
        6 months ago

        Don’t vote -> ??? -> World peace

        Draw me the rest of the fucking owl. I’ve yet to hear a plan as to how not voting actually helps anyone.

        I have no illusions what Biden is. Or what Trump is. Vote.

      • Xhieron@lemmy.worldEnglish
        254·
        6 months ago

        How much are you getting paid? I only wish I was as passionate about my job as you are about yours.

        • the post of tom joad@sh.itjust.works
          13·
          6 months ago

          The problem’s voting for the candidate doesn’t work either. Or Voting 3rd party. Or Voting Republican. Or primarying in a more leftist candidate (because they often fight and lose to the DNC).

          Apparently, neither does going on record as not voting for him as a protest. Hmmmm… what was the way to move the Democrats left?

          • dvoraqs@lemmy.world
            11·
            6 months ago

            Election reform. When third parties are viable options (they are absolutely not now and just create a spoiler effect that works against your side), politics will need to shift to accommodate those interests. Push for Ranked Choice Voting and more!

      • disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world
        111·
        6 months ago

        What do you suggest the left do? I know you’ve said you believe in protesting at the polls. What’s step two?

        • return2ozma@lemmy.worldOP
          323·
          6 months ago

          Centrist Dems went back to brunch and got lazy once Biden won. Maybe we need a fire lit under people’s asses to get them in the streets and fighting for change again.

          • revelrous@sopuli.xyz
            122·
            6 months ago

            Garbage babe. Utter dog pile. Tripe. Sweetheart, let auntie cup your bright little cheeks between her hands, look you in eye, and tell you things you dont want to hear.

            Trump wants to use lethal force on protesters and half the country will cheer him on while he does it. Both sides are not the same. The 2025 project will get rid of all those pesky civil servants that stood in the way the last time he suggested it and the US is great at marginalizing ‘militant’ actors.

            ‘Fine people on both sides’ do you not remember? Were you too young to pay attention? Under trump we will lose a ‘fight in the streets.’ Go read some about the histories of what happens to all the good little leftists when the gloves come off.

            It doesn’t matter if you were right. The state will make up an excuse as to why you deserved it, and enough people will buy it or be too afraid to make themselves a target by protesting. The boat will not rock, the needle of the cause will not move. For example: how much time did your school spend on the battle of Blair Mountain? We’ve tried this before, again and again, and the military buries the evidence and we forget.

            The better agent of change, albeit slow and unsatisfying, is to convince people they have a conscience and should listen to it. Vote you motherfucker, it’s like wearing a seatbelt.

          • disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world
            102·
            6 months ago

            So you’re an accelerationist? You believe a Trump presidency would lead to a violent revolution that will improve the nation?

      • 𝕽𝖚𝖆𝖎𝖉𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍@midwest.social
        93·
        6 months ago

        In good faith: did you hear anyone actually say this? Biden’s a Clinton Democrat: more friendly to big business than to the working class. He was never going to be a class-leftist, and nobody promised he would be.

        But he has been socially liberal, and he didn’t need any nudging. He was always socially liberal.

        And those are your choices, for better or worse: an economically right-leaning, socially left-leaning old white man; or an economically hard-right, socially hard-right old white man.

        The only way to fix this is to get rid of the electoral college and implement something other than first-past-the-post voting. Not voting is not going to fix it. In the meantime, you try to get the guy elected who isn’t trying to instigate a dictatorship.

    • return2ozma@lemmy.worldOP
      675·
      6 months ago

      She endorsed Biden and kept pushing for him in 2020. Now because she voices how she feels she’s an idiot?

      Blue MAGA gonna Blue MAGA. Voter shaming doesn’t work.

        • return2ozma@lemmy.worldOP
          549·
          6 months ago

          She maintained, that despite her stance, she is not encouraging people not to vote. “I’m not encouraging anybody to not vote. You do what you want to do, but I’m telling you what I’m doing and that’s it,” she said. "But the more you know, and the more passionate you become, the more you see that our leaders are evil."She said that people have told her that she needs to “pick the lesser evil” when it’s time to vote this year, but she considers both of them “evil.”

          “I’m all for protecting America and for the better of America, but this war is not doing nothing for America and it hurts me,” she said. “Children are dying… I hate that, that disgusts me no matter what religion, no matter what language we speak. We all have one thing in common. We love our children, we love our parents, we love our family.”

          https://www.complex.com/music/a/backwoodsaltar/cardi-b-talks-about-refusing-to-vote-for-biden-trump

          • Hadriscus@lemm.ee
            1·
            6 months ago

            lol. Celebrity publically announces her intention not to vote, and you expect this announcement to have zero effect on her groupies ? especially when the headlines conveniently leave out the part where she says “I’m not telling you what to do”?

  • TheFonz@lemmy.world
    261·
    6 months ago

    But has anyone reached out to Ja Rule about what he has to say on the matter?

  • jmanes@lemmy.worldEnglish
    262·
    6 months ago

    Our system is pretty broken, but if you’re given a lever to pull (voting) you may as well pull it. There is no benefit to be gained from opting out.

      • jmanes@lemmy.worldEnglish
        12·
        6 months ago

        Optimistic thinking! But I’m afraid such protests are futile for many reasons. The biggest issue is that refusing to vote has no visibility; it is not like a real protest or real activism. You simply disappear in numbers small enough to not matter, and those in power will continually claim the power until contested.

        There is no reconciling with those in power through pacifism. History teaches us this time and time again. Continue to vote while you can, and remember Trotsky’s ideals for when things go bad.

        1. Never trust the ruling class
        2. Control your leaders
        3. Have confidence in your own abilities
      • Eldritch@lemmy.worldEnglish
        101·
        6 months ago

        It’s never worked in the past. So surely it will work this time!

        The system doesn’t care if you think it’s legitimate or not. Especially if you don’t vote. They’ve worked hard to take the votes of many, nullify the votes of others. They’ll just laugh at the ones that waste theirs.

      • CoggyMcFee@lemmy.world
        1·
        6 months ago

        I’m sure the people on the right — who already actively engage in suppressing the vote of people who do want to vote — will feel deeply concerned about the legitimacy of their increased power due to people on the left deciding not to vote.

        And I’m sure the Democrats, who will then have even less power in the federal government, will somehow use their non-power to pass laws to make things better in order to woo these non-voters who have proven their unreliability.

    • paddirn@lemmy.worldEnglish
      221·
      6 months ago

      That’s cool, but choosing to do nothing is also a choice and you’ll see worse results under Trump, maybe even American forces helping out in the genocide, complete withdrawal of any Palestinian relief efforts, even more weapons provided without any conditions, and repression of groups here in the US. Saving the Palestinians would be great, but throwing out everything else for their sake when it won’t even make a difference just seems childish. If Trump gets power again, you won’t even have the freedom to worry about the Palestinians anymore, but you’ll still have to live with dead Palestinian children under rubble.

      With Biden, there’s at least attempts at trying to reign in the Israelis. The US has less sway over the Israelis than what many probably think, as we can see with Israel’s/Netanyahu’s flippant attitude towards Biden’s urgings for restraint. Israel specifically started positioning itself to be less reliant on US influence since the 90s. We should still just stop sending them weapons altogether, but at least under Biden there an effort to stop it (as ineffectual as they are). Under Trump, the US will give increased enthusiastic support.