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[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (10 children)

That doesn't address anything. Saying vote over and over doesn't make it a viable strategy, especially in bourgeois "democracy"'s staged elections, where the vote choices are stacked between various capitalist puppets.

Essentially you're asking us to play a rigged game, and insisting both that it's not rigged, and that it's super important to play it. Also that anyone who refuses to play it deserves ridicule. This is the level of zealotry people have in their fake political system.

[–] lena@gregtech.eu 1 points 3 weeks ago (9 children)

I never said it wasn't rigged. Not voting is not going to help you achieve the goal of stopping this madness. It will only make it harder. Democrats are, of course, the party of the rich, but so are Republicans. Republicans, however, are way more against the redistribution of wealth.

[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 weeks ago (8 children)

Not voting is not going to help you achieve the goal of stopping this madness. It will only make it harder.

You can only make statements like this, by ignoring history. People in the US have voted for 150+ years. This is the result.

Again, if voting is working so well, why do things keep getting worse? Are they just not voting hard enough? No, it's the system that's broken, it's theatre, a catch-22, a rigged game. Those of us who've studied US history and it's class history learned this a long time ago. The liberals coming and telling us to vote to fix things, aren't bringing any new arguments, and appear to us like fanatical zealots, who think that if they repeat mantras over and over, it cancels history.

[–] lena@gregtech.eu 0 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Hey Dessalines, have you considered that you can vote and do other things, like activism?

[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I'm not joining your cult. You've given me no good reasons to join it.

[–] lena@gregtech.eu 0 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Ah, dodging the question, common tankie behaviour.

[–] yunxiaoli@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 weeks ago

They directly answered your question in its entirety.

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