You are not getting out of this by voting ALONE,
#but you still must also vote, at EVERY CHANCE
this post was submitted on 15 Apr 2025
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If they deny the midterms, overturn the results or refuse to acknowledge their loss, that is the natural next step. People still believe in the power of popular sovereignty
I'm very disappointed with Biden's administration for not charging more people in Trump's first term for the crimes they committed. They didn't face any consequences the last time and will now be completely off the rails. Now we have a second Trump administration with most of the same people that now know they can get away with anything.
The problem is that US democracy consists of voting for either a conservative party (Democrats) or a fascist party (Republicans).
When the conservatives are in power they care most about preserving the appearance of legitimacy of institutions and they don't do anything like arresting politicians or stuffing the supreme court even though it would strengthen democracy.
Then the fascists get in and destroy everything anyway.
No single thing alone will fix the world. Voting alone won't fix it. Throwing a molotov alone won't fix it.
Voting (in many places, for many people) takes almost no effort. Go do it. But don't call it a day and think you've done everything you can do. Refusing to vote just yields one of the many fronts in this conflict without a fight.
Yes throwing a Molotov won't fix it. Throwing 30 million on the other hand...
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And the courts won't help you.
The courts can't help you, even if they wanted (they don't)
But we did vote our way into it, didn't we?
Technically speaking, we abstained our way into it.
Yes, but that was kinda like forgetting your keys inside on a windy day and you are currently hearing the front door slamming shut.
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Here's your friendly reminder: "The. Majority. Of. Us. Don't. Give. A. Fuck. What's. Happening. In. Your. Country."
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We could have. Since we didn't I don't care anymore and I resent the implication that because other people failed I have to keep toiling.
I'm barely fueled by spite at this point. I mostly feel nothing. I just don't care about shit anymore.
But I also don't seem to be deriving enjoyment from entertainment anymore either. So I'm still fucking here talking to you people.
What worries me is that I wasn’t sure if this was for the US or Canada given our upcoming election.
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You think the 90M people that couldn’t be bothered to vote against fascism are going to take to the streets and fight?
Electoral voting is useless and built to disenfranchise and demotivate people participating from politics. Doing direct action immediately improves your life and builds mutual aid networks. So yes.
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When they start closing embassies is when you start pouring gasoline into whiskey bottles.
Everyone agitating for an overthrow of the system through memes is going to get out there and start doing it any day now just you wait...
Aaaaaaaany day now...
True. What works best is being a smug "nothing ever happens" lib online and doing one political action every 4 years.
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Oh, I see the psyop is hard at work already. "No, don't vote, it's useless, don't even bother, leave it to those suckers who are doing this stupid ineffective voting thing. Oh, they have all the power all of the sudden? Who knew, no idea how that happened"
Don't badjacket. Just because we don't believe in the electoral farce doesn't make us a paid actor.
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We could've.
If you weren't impressionable fuckin idiots
Good thing they've got guns to stop terrorist organizations such as ICE. I'm curious when we'll hear about them being shot at, or worse, though.
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