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[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago

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?