The fringes of the political “wings” (left and right) seem similar to me, not so much in policy but in the rabid, simplistic attitudes and outright derision constantly sputtered.

Nope. That’s why I voted for a Harris.

Ah, LemmyWorld, if this post indicated that American Gaza protesters were gamed to help Trump get elected, it would be banned here too…

Are these other ways just as constructive as pissing their vote away…?

In San Francisco, a resolution was passed allowing undocumented residents who had children to vote legally in school board elections and no one voted. My guess is that even if officially invited to vote, an undocumented person isn’t going to just give the government their name and address. So yeah, Republicans are just conjuring up yet another conspiracy theory to rattle what they themselves call “low information voters”, aka their base.