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[–] [email protected] 70 points 1 week ago (21 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

You think the 90M people that couldn’t be bothered to vote against fascism are going to take to the streets and fight?

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It’s useless, yet it’s exactly why we have a fascist dictator? That’s tautological.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (27 children)

You would get a fascist dictator regardless. That has always been the inevitable path of liberal electoral politics under capitalism.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago

It doesn't take 90M people to blow up a pipeline.

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 week ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 week ago (3 children)

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...

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 week ago (6 children)

But we did vote our way into it, didn't we?

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

You are not getting out of this by voting ALONE,

#but you still must also vote, at EVERY CHANCE

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago

Soap box

Ballot box

Ammo box

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

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Apathy is what got us here

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago

Avarice and individualism got here.

To the point many still consider both to be strengths and not the weaknesses they are.

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