A Boring Dystopia

Thank you, I get very burnt out repeating how both sidesism has fucked USA over.

Start/join a food not bombs, help your neighbours clear their outdoor space/get to an appointment/fix their computer/whatever your skillset and time allows, contribute to a strike fund, spread propaganda online or on the streets via posters stickers and flyers, those and so much more are "clear actionable things to do now". That is what revolution looks like, it isn't all blowing up pipelines and setting police stations on fire, it starts with you and your community. Start with solidarity instead of expecting others to produce a ready made revolution for you, and within the existing system? That's completely missing the point..

Yep

Local level and state level are achievable goals and align with the game theory presented in our government.

Anyone thinking nationally does not recognize the scale of the problem they're dealing with.

I'm a big fan of direct action. Find your local representative and leave a burning bag of dog shit on their door step. I'll leave ringing the doorbell up to your discretion.

Trump didn't get into office because he got the most votes.

In fact voting as important as it is doesn't actually decide what the government does. There was a whole Princeton study about this recently that your vote essentially has no impact on what the government chooses to do.

Voting is largely a public demonstration of how much we are willing to tolerate the government turning on us in any given year. The fewer people that show up to vote the more quickly we march towards fascist dystopia.

Seriously. Like not voting is going to help more.

Welcome to the age of entitlement, where everting is owed to you.

I pay taxes to avoid going to jail.

Vote and volunteer in local elections. I think most people would be surprised how few resources campaigns for state legislature have. You and a few friends can make a huge difference. Volunteer for the Dem (out of necessity) primary candidate that wants to replace ftp voting with ranked choice or another similar system, and show up to meetings regardless of election cycle to give input. It wouldn't take much to get their resources up to the level of establishment candidates.

If a few good sized states could get this the others would get jealous about them having real choice and I believe it would start a snowball effect. It has to come from state legislatures though.

I mean Subways bread is technically classified as cake

So I'm down for a French revolution

In 2024 in the United States we don't vote because of specific issues, rather we vote to stop (or further) the onset of an autocratic takeover.

If you want to affect issues, you approach the public and elected officials with data. You get those officials on video denying or lying which will increase their chances of getting primaried.

If necessary, you get radicalized and blow up oil pipelines. We're now at a stage where we legitimately consider sabotage of industry and state paramilitary operations.

Voting is necessary, but not to change policy, only to keep policy from deteriorating further.

Organize. Chances are that there is only a small amount of overlap between what you want and either candidate.Thanks to the first pass the post voting system, it is likely that both candidates favor decreasing rights and increase in corporate power.

Try to get different voting systems set up. Spread information about the problems of first pass the post. Spread information about the issues you care about. Push for local candidates.