• MaryTzu@aussie.zone
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    9 hours ago

    How is exactly is not voting going to improve things? Are you an accelerationist? Or perhaps you think revolution is mutually exclusive to voting?

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      The Democrats are the more competent managers of empire, so they are the accelerationist pick. The accelerationist position wants the most competent imperialists in power to accelerate capital concentration, and therefore speed up the contradictions of capital.

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      9 hours ago

      I don’t think this meme is even against voting, just against voting for fascists with a D next to their name over fascists with an R.

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    Give a better alternative to vote for then.

    These so called lefty memes telling people not to vote for the opposition to the Republicans feels like a psi op now. “Only REAL leftys let Republicans take office!”

    • BrainInABox@lemmy.ml
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      You BlueMaga lot think anyone who disagrees with you is a “psi op”. It’s just liberal qanon

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      Voting is less than the bare minimum required to enact positive change. Revolution is necessary, which requires organizing.

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    14 hours ago

    Instead I do nothing except cry online about it to make me feel like do something, waiting for the echo that reaffirms me.

    If you don’t do nothing, you have no justification not vote for the ‘lesser evil’.

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        8 hours ago

        That’s true. It would have been more accurate to say ‘they have no justification to feel morally superior for not voting’. Though technically the above isn’t asking that they justify. But yes voting itself is a free choice including not to vote, at least in most democratic systems.

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      I actually do have a justification: I refuse to sign my name to genocide, even if you fucks put a gun to my head

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        Oh, what a noble and utterly meaningless gesture. How many lifes did it save to not “sign your name”? What did it do for the world? Nothing but empty idealism to feel better of oneself. I understand the need for that in current times but lets not pretend it is more than it is.

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          Why do you losers always type like you learned to talk solely from watching anime?

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          Nothing makes me more certain I made the right decision than seeing the people who made the wrong decision be reduced to sepiroth posting in order to cope with being actual, support-a-second-holocaust nazis from now until they die. You fucked yourself dude, we all warned you.

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    What is better solution in your opinion?

    Remember that margin in 2024 election was so thin that only 300 000 extra votes (in right states) would be enough for Trump to lose, only little over 2 million for Kamala to win on numbers.

    • ☂️-@lemmy.ml
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      politicians represent the rich, which are the true rulers. we vote between rich people factions.

      unionism tends to be one concrete powerful way to pressure them back right in their pockets and is why the rich demonize it so much. any method that messes with the flow of their money works, that’s what theory is for.

      but learn from the mistakes of past generations who did it and depose them already so this doesn’t have to be a recurring problem.

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      The consitution of the united states was written by a few rich, white, slave owners. And was written so they would be able to keep there wealth.

      Kalmala is a rich zionist with an insentive to maintain the status quoe. Even if she wanted to change things she still has to bow down to her rich doners and the press both of which dont want her to do anything that threatens them.

      There is no way to fix a system designed to uphold the rich and segregate minorities.

      The alternative that actually works is revolution.

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              I wish you fucking reddit losers would actually learn what an ad hominem is, rather than treating the Wikipedia page on logical fallacies like a spell book of magic incantations

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                What is Ad Hominem then, and why arguing against me, as a digital footprint of a person instead of my argument wasn’t it

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              ah yes, and here’s another: your father was a hamster and your mother smelled of elderberries! now go away and take your shit takes with you, fuckface

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          For countries that have had a revolution? Mostly much better. Unfortunately their aren’t the material conditions for a revolution in my country yet. Although we will get there eventually.

          Meanwhile voting has rarely gotten anyone anywhere.

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      Nothing will change if people are told they will get their turn one day but they are not as important as winning. Why would you want a future without input from all comrades? How can the best solutions come forward if they are left out? Are privileged people smarter, more capable? Do they get to figure the big stuff out and then swoop in and save others?

      If identity politics is a tool of capitalism to hinder cooperation. Some groups are treated worse than others and when they need additional support to participate they get accused of wanting special treatment. We fight each other instead of organizing together.