What was the last election you voted in and who did you vote for?

I vote in every local election. The last one was pretty important because some asshole came surfing into town on a wave of Gates Foundation cash looking to privatize the local school system. The capitalist class aren't stupid, they understand how important local politics are for shifting the Overton window and influencing government at the state and national level.

Nice try porky, but even marx advocated for voting. We're not a bunch of fucking liberals who think change begins and ends at the ballot box, and we're not defeatist ninnies who think literally everything plays into bourgeois hands either.

The municipality/city council elections

For myself.

In autumn.

Expected nothing less from a socdem

2016 US for Jill Stein. Couldn't in good conscience vote for Hillary or Trump. I thought it was so bad that she actually stood a chance but the fear mongering had the opposite effect and third parties got even less votes than usual. I also knew that if she lost at least my vote went to further support the party.

and he still lost lmao

John McCain

I skipped the 2012 election, I forgot to register to vote.

In 2016, I skipped again because I hated both candidates.

shillary after Bernie lost.
I still hate myself .

I vote in local elections, and last may there was a democracy primary for local shit.

I try to choose the ones which are less neo-liberal if possible, which can be hard, because they are all the same.

I did find one judge however who was involved with a socialist group in the 80s, so I voted for her.

not him but at least she would have had congress breathing down her neck the entire time.

bourgie drivel, although i support the mocking of finn socdem.

2016 US, voted for Gloria La Riva

How do you even find that sort of information about someone? Is there a site that lists of all people that were involved in leftist groups?

UK 2017 general, Corbyn

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You google their name, on their website they say what organizations they have been in, and then you google those organizations.

Tho, there were a few cannidates on the ballot with NO internet presence what-so-ever. For those people, I have a policy of: if you cannot put the effort have a facebook page or a website, I'm not voting for you.

Not him but it's an easy decision. Dems are corrupt but republicans are cartoonishly evil. It's like having a gun to your head tbh.

Unironic flag? I realised we had formed a broad front, but anarchists too?

I don't know. I was hoping that the shock of having corporate Hillary manage to lose to a reality TV star clown would shock the Democratic party into moving left. So far that seems to have been the opposite sadly.

What's wrong with anarchists? Aside from insane ancaps most are pretty anti-capitalist and left wing.

2017 UK

Commisar Corbean

anarchists typically don't vote

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Well I sure hoped for that as a consolation at least. Oh well. Dems will get the bullet too.

Us Election. Fell for the "Get Green Party to 5 percent so they can get federal subsidies" meme and voted for Stein and Greens all the way downballot

UK GE 2017, Gomrade Gorbyn

Dunno, he seems to be our best hope right now of moving the Overton window to the left and getting people to unlearn the "socialism == gulags and breadlines" meme and voting literally takes five minutes so why the fuck not, really. I don't think I'm dogmatic or idealistic enough of an anarchist to think that there's any reason to pass up an opportunity like that just because of the "muh voting" meme.

Johnson for muh accelerationism.

Tbh, the withering of the state apparatus under libertarianism would be the best opportunity to abolish the current state of things.

i lived in a swing state so i voted for hillary which i know gets me sent to the wall

voted for the Portuguese Communist Party in the general elections

lenin wasnt elected, but hitler was. such a progressive leader lenin was.

you dont know communism mow do you?

Bernie 2016

I skipped the General election but told all my liberal friends I voted for Hillary to avoid their scorn

OOOHHH JEREMY CORBYN

Trump

Never voted because there hasn't been an election since my 18th birthday. Will vote in the German election in September.

Nein danke.

Stein. Helped get her on the ballot in my state as well. Also a bunch of Democrats (no alternatives in this shit states) that I knew were going to lose because of their association with Clinton. They did. At least a progressive friend got on city council.

I vote in every election, and although I completely understand why people feel powerless and that American democracy is one of the biggest jokes in the industrial world, I don't believe you reserve the right to bitch about elected officials unless you actually vote.

SPUSA was subverted by the CoIntelPro program a long time ago. Look into other socialist parties like Socialist Alternative or Socialist Equality PArty (or the Greens which are now eco-socialists).

Honestly, I felt I wanted to vote anyway, Trump was off the table from the get-go, which narrowed it down to Clinton, Stein, and Gary Johnson.
Gary was off because he's a fucking joke even in his own terrible party, and I was already skeptical of right wing lolberts after watching one of their primary debates.
Stein was a little shaky on nuclear energy and vaccines, and sadly watching 2012 Stein vs 2016 Stein made me feel like her age is getting the best of her.
Clinton was endorsed by Sanders, citing that it would prevent a Trump presidency, and I was genuinely scared that Trump would start a nuclear war and destroy healthcare, a field which I'm very dependent on right now with my own medical issues.
In hindsight if I could change my vote, I would have voted for Stein.

Thanks comrade, I wasn't aware that it had been subverted.
While we're on the subject, does anyone know of any far left US parties that aren't overrun by three letters agencies?

I think the overton window is important regardless of how the media runs the election

i voted for hillary like a dipshit. i didnt understand politics

I voted for Ron Paul then Jill Stein. Now I'll never vote again and I don't believe in the practice because of experience that it does absolutely nothing and the system's rigged. Pic Related.

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Voted Trump and honestly didn't expect him to win.

Both were shitty candidates but something about Hillary just seemed venomous to me. Trump's retarded but Hillary just made me feel dirty.

Please stop parroting this Republican spin. The problem is election fraud; they are two different things. Voter fraud is when you bus people around to multiple polling stations so they can vote more than once. It turns out that's an exceedingly inefficient way to game an election. Election fraud is systemic manipulation of the counting process, and it is a far more efficient way to cheat. Republicans like to talk about an imaginary voter fraud epidemic because they use it to legitimize voter suppression and to divert attention from their own instances of election fraud.

Election fraud is real, there's plenty of evidence for it both during Primary elections and in General elections. America's reliance on decrepit proprietary electronic voting machines manufactured by an industry that has consolidated into two corporations, in many states such as Pennsylvania and the deep south without even producing paper trails, makes it ripe for all sorts of methods of election fraud.

alexanderhiggins.com/stanford-berkley-study-1-77-billion-chance-hillary-won-primary-without-widespread-election-fraud/

Voted for Bush in 2000. I haven't voted since then.

Why would you so easily believe some user who didnt back up what they said with any evidence?

SPUSA's endorsement of Clinton last election is all the evidence you really need.

Rachel Notley the NDP leader, the Alberta election in 2015.

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You have to be fucking kidding me.

NJ governor primary, Not Phil Murphy

Voted for die Linke in my state. Now they are in the ruling coalition and conservatives are kicked out, current gov is even pretty good for a socdem gov so I am quite happy.

kek can't vote for a king :^)

Jill Stein. I knew she would lose but I was hoping she'd get enough votes to. move the Overton window like socialists did in the 20s

Dutch elections, Liesbeth van Tongeren.

2016 US election.
Comrade Stein.

2016 US election. I voted for Stein. My state and local elections didn't have acceptable options so I didn't vote for anyone there. My town had a referendum on a position in its government and I wrote in "nobody."

I hear the NDP are having a leadership election, any of them Corbyn-Melenchon tier or nah?

someone form the green party said they'd give me a taco if i voted for stein.

voted for stein in last election. honestly regret not going full socialist and writing in spusa or something. it just felt like 'oh woopty doo, glad i could support an obvious loser and a bourgeois opportunist jew at that' ..

i won't even vote anymore, its either gonna be some too-far-left-to-take-seriously or no one at all. maybe if the greens ran someone better than stein i'd reconsider.

i'm glad i didn't do some bourgeois shit like vote for hillary or write in bernie tho. i didn't trust either of them and this last year has made me feel super vindicated in my views while my lib friends that voted hillary are in complete disarray still and are rabidly trying to ensure me that liberalism is sticking around for a good while.

yeah people who encourage complete abstention from bourgeois elections (anarchists) are stupid as FUCK. its like, oh hey guys, lets give 100% power, the full machinations of state power, no contest, to the reactionaries, what's the worst that could happen?!?!? LMAO RETARDS

Whew. Whew my god.

I voted Corbyn even though I would probably consider myself an ancom. Mostly because I'm not sold on accelerationism yet and I think if it goes well it could lead more people into investigating left wing ideologies. Also in a purely selfish sense it felt good to be a part of something that could at least have a little bit of change on making our lifes slightly better.

Venezuela 2015 parliamentary elections. Voted for the opposition.

I have my own regrets from voting for Stein and my own reservations about her candidacy but what do you mean by this?

You played yourself. As shit as Maduro's government is the opposition will be 10x worse Western-backed Neo-Pinochet

I fell for the Trump meme

Good, good…

pussy. I told everyone who asked

Same story for me. At least I helped get the weed lmao referendum to pass in my state

I'm an anarchist myself but I can't say I understand the whole anti-voting thing.

Sure, you're obviously not going to get the chance to vote the state and capitalism away, but if you have a chance at improving the conditions of your own life and the lives of others by taking a few minutes to vote… why not? It's not as if not voting means you don't get affected by the outcome.

France

Mélenchon in the presidential / legislatives

Nah.
The Alberta NDP moved to the right under Notley, she has this bizarre belief that you can "balance" jobs and the environment.
The BC NDP and Green party might have more potential.

I hope Trump fucks up healthcare just so you can die, you pathetic parasite.

Their responses were always hilarious. I literally lost a friend for criticizing Hillary Clinton too much. And by that I mean he seriously thinks I'm a piece of shit who should eat a bullet now for being critical of Clinton

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fuck off, spyce

That's horrible user, tribalism is a hell of a drug.

Wew there edgelord.
Don't you have a blade to be mastering?

Pathetic

I voted for McMuffin in Utah. Not because I agree with his positions, but because I wanted to see a new color come up on the results map and have people freak out about it. Could have paved the way for more third party talk in general too

was not old enough to vote last election, the election held this year i am considering voting for the pirat party. i am not sure yet

Semptember 2015 Greek Elections

Popular Unity. Those that left from Syriza. Cause fuck Syriza.

I'm in Utah also. What city you live in?