r/ADHD • u/salmonpaddy • Nov 05 '24

Tips/Suggestions DON’T FORGET TO VOTE‼️

It happens once every 4 years, it is your right and duty to vote for the future of your country. Regardless of who you vote for, exercise your right, my friends.

You may catch me forgetting my keys, my wallet, to call my doctor to schedule an appointment so I can get a refill on my Adderall, but you will never catch me not voting 😌✨🇺🇸🦅🏈

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u/_Ice_9_ ADHD Nov 05 '24

You're not allowed to be emotionally dysregulated about politics for 4 years if you don't vote

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u/claimTheVictory Nov 05 '24

Basically.

If ever there is a time to "just do it", it's this.

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u/FoghornLegWhore Nov 05 '24

The time for action is every single day. Organizing our workplaces and communities. Striking, boycotting, and rioting is the only way real change ever happens in this country.

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u/claimTheVictory Nov 05 '24

The dockworkers got a 60% pay rise last month, by threatening to strike.

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u/FoghornLegWhore Nov 05 '24 edited Nov 05 '24

Unions are the reason kids aren't dying in mines and factories, but they never taught me that in high school history. Only mention of unions was that they protected bad workers. The whole point of public schooling was to prepare us for wage slavery. 13 years to break our spirits, as MLK once said.

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u/badger0511 ADHD-PI (Primarily Inattentive) Nov 05 '24

I’d also point out, MLK got assassinated when he started weaving worker’s rights and other left-leaning economic and societal ideas into his messaging. I don’t think that was a coincidence.

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u/FoghornLegWhore Nov 05 '24

FBI sent letters to him urging him to commit suicide, which he received a day before they did a photo op with him to state their commitment to rooting out the KKK.

Given how many civil rights leaders were confirmed to be killed by the FBI, it's safe to assume he was one of many. No agency ever reported on it, but several prominent BLM leaders were assassinated in their cars in 2016, and the cops refused to investigate.

These things are not coincidences. Even the current administration has stated that they consider people protesting for their rights and against "perceived injustices" to be terrorists.

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u/MasterVule ADHD-PI (Primarily Inattentive) Nov 05 '24

You are, there is so much crap neither political party covers, being politically active outside of voting matters a lot

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u/NeverxSummer Nov 05 '24

What about people who are ineligible to vote due to incarceration or immigration status? They still live here and have a right to be pissed off.

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u/_Ice_9_ ADHD Nov 05 '24

This is the exception. It would be nice of them to encourage other people to vote tho

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u/NeverxSummer Nov 05 '24

It would be really nice if they could also vote since they live here too. 🙂

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u/TheShaunD Nov 05 '24

Yes you are.