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.
Implying the reality that your vote counts.
my vote counts more than yours.
assuming you failed to vote.
then again, if you did vote you’d be a hypocrite and a liar.
It’ll never count if you don’t even give it a chance. There have been a good number of examples where winners were determined by just a few hundred votes out of millions. There’s no harm in trying to support the future you want, so even if you don’t think it’ll matter go vote anyway - you never know…
Now this is a TikTok trend I can totally get behind.
We’ll see how it goes.
One of my initial fears regarding the initial hype phase of Kamala taking the candidacy was that the media hype would wear off and that we’d have a lot of no shows at the polls who only posted about it on their socials because it was trending. I don’t really trust my generation or the zoomers to get out there and vote, but I hope I’m proven wrong.
If it helps, this gen x’er is voting blue, but my boomer mom in a swing state is too!
If it helps, this Gen Xer (i.e. “me”) is offsetting their remaining parent’s vote. We were told growing up how decent we should be, yet when we actually took that to heart and did that our parents went off the reservation and lost their minds. There are a LOT of fractured families thanks to Trump & Faux Snuz, and I hope we can make the future worth all the trouble they’ve caused.
Oh yeah I don’t disagree about that. I’m the black sheep of my family in that regard. Even my Gen X siblings are Trumpers sadly.
I was just more so pointing out that I wasn’t entirely sure if the younger two generations were actually serious. I know how social media is. Someone posting about something is not the same as someone taking action so I get anxious about whether or not people will actually make good on their statements.
We were told growing up how decent we should be
This rings so true with me. I was raised in the church and I truly believed in what was taught about loving your neighbor, and caring for the less fortunate as my family and church taught.
Then my senior year of high school my dad (a Deacon in the church) told me that he notices that I tend to make friends with broken people instead of friends that can help me out. And that’s when the first cracks in religions hold on me started to appear.
Today I’m the only one in the family I grew up in not voting for trump. I’m also the only one who gave up on church. My sister went even deeper by seeking out a fringe Baptist congregation that believes some really fucked up shit, and my brother followed in my dad’s footsteps and became a Deacon. Last week my mom explained to me how it’s the culture of the inner-cities that makes violence and crime so common. It isn’t race, it’s culture. She thinks she’s being open-minded. And they all think they are good people. ‘They’d do anything for you’… as long as you’re part of the church - even then, don’t ask too often.
I’m ranting now, but damn, how is it so hard for people to just genuinely be good and helpful?
Ironically leaving the church is the most Christian thing to do.
My parents were religious, but didn’t go to church. Got in fight with my dad and left with no where to go. Got picked up by some church leader, who broght me to church and ended up hiring me to sell cutco knifes.
Something someone at the church said that still sticks with me today and influences my opinion being that a lot of them really aren’t good people. They pretend around their colleagues, but it’s all fake. They basically said something along the lines of we saw you hitchhiking and would have given you a ride if only we knew you’d be here. Um, thanks I guess. For letting me know I’m not worthy of your help unless. I’m part of your little cult of lies.
yeah i would keel over in a dead faint if my little sis changed her mind last minute from orange to blue.
I haven’t seen my brother in four years since he came into my house dropping hard Rs everywhere.
I outwardly pretend it doesn’t bother me to have cut him out like that, but it really bothers me quite alot. I have young impressionable kids and refuse to encourage that kind of behavior around them.
this is why I think of conservatives like Nazis. I hate them because of the betrayal from family. because of that, i will never trust a conservative again.
Shit like this makes me hopeful and honestly that worries me. The universe is cruel.
This feels like a trauma response, haha. I’m right there with you.
The cruel thing is that this is the best humanity can manage and we burned all of our get out of jail free cards to get here.
I see plenty of gen z being influenced by toxic nonsense on outlets like Youtube, as well as doing some of the influencing. I also know people from Gen Y, Gen X, and boomer age range that hate donnie with a burning passion and would vote for a potato over voting for donnie…
So the idea of framing this as just some generational thing seems kinda moot, at least in my experience. But for some reason, the notion that a set of people merely born between two sets of dates are a monolith is all too common…even as we reject similar framing for almost any other demographic measure…
I think it’s important to note that although there is definitely a trend of young men being radicalized through the “manosphere,” young women are so overwhelmingly progressive/liberal that gen z is still significantly more progressive/liberal overall than previous generations.
I sure hope so, but I have a feeling that some cons are already working the long game on that, too. Like getting Youtube to push more extremist content to women. Or TikTok “influencers” slipping in the magabrained talking points in between the other content…
Do we have any evidence that they are actually voting and not just filming videos they hope will become popular without really going to vote?
It doesnt matter if they do. It influences other young people to vote Harris.
My 21yo niece asked if I was voting Trump so she could cancel it.
I said DO IT. No idea why she thought I would vote for a asshole but whatever gets her going.
Canceling votes is a good start, but they shouldn’t limit it to people they know, and even if all votes are cancelled, you still need more to actually win.
Whatever it takes to motivate them. At least all my boys voted. Of course some of them are too old to be gen z but whatever.
Because TikTok told her thats what the olds were doing.
Voting participation is public record. I don’t know when it’s published.
Participation, yes. Who, hopefully never.
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cancel culture people cancel culture
All those people getting canceled who go on podcasts with 50m views and on top, they get a Netflix show etc. They are being canceled too hard.
Also treason I think being caught doing that also counts as canceled nowadays.
My brother and I are two Harris votes against like 12 Trump votes. Feelsbadman
dont really like kids all that much but those younguns are real heroes
What else can you expect from a tiktoker.
Just waiting (carefully, on another continent) for the TikTok videos of Trump supporters, with weapon in hand, who are on their way to ‘cancel’ the ‘stolen’ election…
I mean… how fucked up is the political climate in the US?
how fucked up is the political climate in the US?
Well the right has been brainwashed over the course of decades to believe “tHe LiBruLs aRe GoNnA tAKe aWaY mUh FrEeDuMs,” and coupled with the Trump/MAGA cult behavior has only exacerbated their idiocy to the point any and every one of them feels they have nothing to lose (which they don’t, many have nothing) by standing in the way of democracy.
American politics has long been just viewed as if rooting for a favorite sports team, “My team is the best and everybody else is my rival!” where people don’t even care that their team sucks, they’ll continue to stand behind them because that’s their team. Many vote against their own interests because of that, and the MAGA cult is the worst case it’s been in a very long time.
MSN hijack link
Oh? I’ve been seeing it more. Is there a way to know and get the right source? I kinda hate MSN.
Highlight the entire headline, and perform a search on it. Even if you can’t discern the true source, there ought to be plenty of better sites to link to.
Apparently the browser I use just doesnt work with MSN at all, so thats been the best way to know what’s the wrong site at least.
What @SanctimoniousApe@lemmings.world said
It does state the source of the article though (this one says The Independent UK), and you can click the ‘jump to’ icon to go the proper site-- but it won’t be at the proper article, just the main page.
But just in general-- If my query returns a lot of MSN hijack links, I just go back and put -MSN in the search.
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If people are participating in the election, great. American voter turn out is historically dogshit.
Can’t believe I didn’t think about this becoming a trend sooner
I actually did the science and I can say with complete certainty that flouride is good for you and has no bad side effects.
Jk, I believe what I’m told.
You must have been dropped as an infant.
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Fluoride is in fact bad for you, at thousands of times the recommended dosage which is why some regions actually have to filter it out.
The “Harvard Study” these dimbulbs like to go on about, having never actually read it, focused on one such region in China that hadn’t modernized at the time. The region actually exports fluoride now for industrial usage, and the developmental effects are a thing of the past… For people not still drinking unfiltered ground water.
That is not only not right; it is not even wrong
I’d argue that it’s all true but I just brushed my teeth and am feeling very calm for some reason and can’t be bothered
