I have this weird plan to dissuade fascists from voting. It’s totally legal and I kinda think it could work.

  1. we buy rolls of “I Voted” stickers off Amazon

  2. On Election Day, we go to polling places in swing states. Pick a district that’s heavily fash, and with long lines.

  3. As people line up outside, go down the line and hand out the stickers. People in line get frustrated by the wait, but they figure “I already have the sticker. I can post on social. Good enough.” They go home without voting.

  4. The fascists lose.

I don’t think this is totally nuts. And as long as it’s just a generic “I Voted” sticker it’s totally legal. What do y’all think?

  • Adkml [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    14·
    1 month ago

    This would work on liberals who use voting as a way to virtue signal and not chuds that understand the entire system is catered to them so that their vote counts way more than everybody else’s and it’s a way to hurt people they don’t like.

    Libs vote for the sticker, chuds vote in the hope of using the power of the state to inflict violence on people they dont like.

  • MayoPete [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
    7·
    1 month ago

    Be careful this doesn’t get considered “voter disenfranchisement” and get attention from the local piggies.

    If you want to be spicy First Amendment style, maybe hand out a zine or one-pager explaining why electoralism is a dead-end, how corporations own both parties, and Capitalism is the ultimate enemy of everyone in line?

    • mulcahey@lemm.eeOPEnglish
      5·
      1 month ago

      Tbh I think the zine is more likely to get you in trouble. Many states ban any kind of campaigning within a certain distance of a polling place. But I don’t think handing out “I Voted” stickers would qualify as campaigning. A zine, on the other hand …

  • bumpusoot [any]@hexbear.netEnglish
    7·
    1 month ago

    Does dissuading fascists from voting actually help? The more important part is convincing proles that voting is immaterial and they need to do other stuff to effect change. Whoever and however anyone votes, fascists will get into power.