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coldpie ◴[] No.41859298[source]
Passed 3-2 along party lines. Remember this when you're going to vote. Elections matter.
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NotPractical ◴[] No.41860362[source]
Not surprised that you're being downvoted despite telling the truth, because "politics is off-topic while technology is on-topic" (even though politics is often deeply intertwined with technology).
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mardifoufs ◴[] No.41861242[source]
Sure, everything is political. But that's meaningless, and it just gets tiring to see the same debates over and over because someone said the thing "remember this when you vote". Like yeah, that's usually how voting works; you vote based on policies like this.

It would be similar to going into an israel-palestine war thread and saying that "remember, if you vote Biden you're voting for a president that is enabling a genocide" or saying that "those bombs were given by Biden's administration " whenever a hospital gets hit in that war. Is it true? Sure. Is it stirring the pot? Absolutely. Do people who vote for Biden already know that and don't really care? Almost certainly.

The exact same applies to comments like this. Like yes, republicans vote for Republican candidates knowing this. It's not like they weren't aware that the party they support leans heavily towards favoring business interests.

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1. coldpie ◴[] No.41861635[source]
There's a lot of people who say stuff like "why bother to vote, both sides are the same." I think it's useful to highlight instances like this when there's a clear difference which impacts people directly.