Just days away from Election Day, many women have on TikTok have hinted that they’re voting for Democratic nominee Kamala Harris, while their parents are voting for Republican nominee Donald Trump. As part of the trend, each video shows social media users with a piece of paper in hand as they leave their houses to go vote.
"POV, [on my way] to cancel out my Trump-loving husband’s vote in a swing state,” she said, along with a blue heart emoji and an American flag emoji.
Bitch that’s called voting.
God all these TikTok trends are so fucking dumb. I guess if it sways votes to Harris that’s good, but what a sorry state of affairs we have that there are people out there that need to be drip-fed content in order to do their civic responsibility and stop fucking fascism.
I can’t really see how this is different from anything except that it is an online movement. There have always been slogans, campaigns, and movements to get people motivated to vote. This particular movement is helpful to motivate people who might feel that their vote isn’t significant, as it helps them to think of it in concrete terms as a chess move against their MAGA loved one. I don’t see why that is so stupid. It seems like hating it is more of a knee-jerk reaction against people who use TikTok. While I dislike TikTok myself, this seems like one of the weakest examples of why it’s bad.
I think people are taking issue with calling this act of normal voting “a TikTok trend” as if TikTok deserves the credit for inspiring the youngsters. It would be better if the news media used platform-agnostic terms with social media to avoid promoting their brands. “Young Americans use social media to organize voters” etc
If TikTok gets more people voting blue, I 100% welcome the trend. It doesn’t matter to me if people vote blue for clout, just as long as they’re voting
I agree, but it should also be something people do because they care about doing the right thing and value democracy, irrespective of what social media tells them to do.
Yeah but it’s easy to see how they look at their parents who - seemingly - “value democracy” with their voting and yelling and campaigning, and what damage that causes. This causes a general dejection with politics and civil structures as a whole, and hence a disinterest in engaging with it at all.
Imagine knowing what Gen Z knows about who Trump really is and watching your parents blindly vote for that.
We are absolutely failing our children to the point where they are inheriting the climate disaster, WW3, and might not even be afforded a democracy to allow them to correct our mistakes. This is their time and i hope they see it.
working at a community college, i noticed most young people are disinterested in politics because it’s always just been a bunch of crusty old out of touch white men. which, tbh is mostly true. so kids never even bothered
biden dropping out and kamala taking his place was 1000000% the best thing that could have happened, because now these kids are suddenly paying attention and seeing what a fucking wrong choice trump is
I’ve noticed the same. When Biden was still in, support for him was of the “grim determination” variety. But as soon as he bowed out, it shifted to practically jubilant support for Harris.
So glad to see that shift.
Gen X’er here and an older one at that.
My two idiot older brothers, one of whom is an Oathbreaker… Keeper…what the fuck ever, are voting for that fucking asshole.
A lot of my fellow classmates of my highschool graduating class are also voting for him. I went to the same school, came from the same town had a lot of the same experiences. How the living ever fuck are they so bamboozled?
It’s absolute insanity and it is not going to end here.
Gen 'Xer here too. Most, if not all of my social circle are voting for Trump too. I am mirroring you in saying that I also shared the same life experience as them. What I’m noticing with all social media which is a major part of all our lives is that its a giant echo camber for both sides. Here on lemmy and reddit (yes I know, but I still check in there) we are all leaning left and denouncing him. Meanwhile on the Meta and Twitter I see everyone clamoring about him bring their savior and how evil and wretched Harris and the libs are. Both sides are surprised how close this race is. I see the media profiting on all this chaos and nonsense. We need to fight to get the media out of the control of all these oligarchs, be-it US or foreign interference centers. I think and hope that more and more people are realizing this and this is going to be the start of class warfare. Sad thing is they got all us have-nots battling each other instead of them. So hard to talk with the cultists and veer them away from the Kool aid going around. It’s sad and it’s going to get dark one way or another.
Anyway preach on and don’t give up.
If people are participating in the election, great. American voter turn out is historically dogshit.
Send MAGA back to the Stone Age where it belongs.
i’d venture a guess that stone age cavemen didn’t give a rat’s ass where anyone took a shit like MAGAs do
but they did abuse the women. so there’s that
but they did abuse the women
More matriarchal societies existed in primitive cultures than you’ll likely learn about in grade school.
The misogynist violence is not a consequence of human nature but a legacy of our engineered social system.
Not sure of the current status of her work but books by archaeologist Marija Gimbutas argued that European prehistory was characterized by matriarchy and religious worship of a goddess.
My favorite was one where a girl was like “On my way to cancel out my Republican sister’s vote” and then after it went viral posted another video saying “Jk, we both voted for Kamala. We would never support someone who’s trying to take away our rights”
