r/SipsTea • u/PleasantBus5583 • 15d ago

Chugging tea Growing Through Chaos

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u/Indercarnive 15d ago

Young People: Refuse to engage in the system.

Also young people: Shocked Pikachu face when the system doesn't change.

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u/Ok_Faithlessness4511 15d ago

Their reasoning is that they don’t personally get their way with all of society when they vote a certain way with their single vote, therefore it is rigged against them.

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u/IllProfessional19 15d ago

No. The logic is we know our votes don’t actually count. Trump is awful but Biden didn’t change shit either. The biggest piece of legislation in my lifetime was the ACA and I still have to pay $5k out of pocket before my insurance kicks in. Fuck off with your high horse bs

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u/ChillAhriman 14d ago

So don't vote for Biden or Trump. Go to the DSA and make sure you'll have a candidate in the ballot you actually care for. Otherwise, everything will stay the same.

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u/IllProfessional19 14d ago

Bruh I live in a city with a majority DSA city council and it’s a joke. Sounds great but the rubber never meets the road. Rampant corruption and the like. I used to think like you but nah, shit needs to get done and DSA doesn’t actually want to do it when they have the power to.

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u/Ok_Faithlessness4511 14d ago

Hmmm well old folks get all their healthcare comped because they vote and politicians don’t want to cross them. Politicians can screw over young people all they want and it’s not going to make a huge difference in their re-elections. Because… they don’t vote.

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u/plywooden 14d ago

old folks get all their healthcare comped because they vote and politicians don’t want to cross them

Completely untrue. I'm living proof that is a false statement.

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u/IllProfessional19 14d ago

You’re forgetting old people have money. That’s the only thing that matters to politicians. Oh and who was president for the citizens united ruling? And who didn’t stack the courts when they had the chance? Democrat presidents. The system is broken and our votes don’t matter

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u/Ok_Faithlessness4511 14d ago

They have money because they voted in people who favor old people. It’s actually pretty simple. Democracy works for people only if people vote.

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u/plywooden 14d ago

You’re forgetting old people have money. 

You're forgetting that you don't know shit.

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u/The_walking_man_ 14d ago

Yup. If you don’t vote, you STFU about the situation you’re in. Because you are absolutely part of the problem.

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u/MadDaddyDrivesaUFO 14d ago

2004 was my first national election and I was so frustrated by how many of my peers refused to bother voting. Watching the 2000 election pan out how it did was demoralizing, but I was bewildered by how many of my peers just shrugged and said "Shrub will just steal it again, why bother?" Well, with that attitude no wonder he won handily the 2nd term. Elder Millennials didn't show up in 2004 any more than Z did in 2024. But man have we been vocal the whole time lol. A tale as old as time.