Oh man, the fucking sass in the comments of this post. You’re all so passionate about these things.
… And almost all of the arguments are whataboutisms. It’s a fucking race to the bottom with everyone.
All I’m going to say is that not voting is not a valid way to protest. That’s excluding yourself from the process, and letting others decide for you. Just go vote. I’m not going to tell you who to vote for, just go do it. Have your voice heard.
I realize this years vote for Americans will very likely turn into a competition of who is less bad of an option, but you need to still go out and cast a ballot. Please just do it. Please!
He was equally alert to the problem of voter fetishism: voters mistakenly thinking the vote is an exercise of power, when in fact power in a capitalist society is collective, social and located largely outside the parliamentary realm. Elections had a place, but they were no substitute for mass working-class action in the workplaces, streets and squares. Ultimately power must be wrested from the capitalist class in revolution.
For like 99% of people arguing that ‘voting is useless’ they are also not working towards any other method of improving society. Either by working towards unions, or effective means of protest or even violent revolution. They’re just opting out and doing nothing of value while feeling smug about being ‘above’ such petty squabbles.
If you are the 1% actually doing something of value that isn’t voting. Congrats, I guess? But I think I’m far more likely to convince someone to vote, which is at least somewhat helpful than I am to convince them to join a revolution.
Let’s hope you have the privilege to vote after Nov 5.
I can assure you they do not feel smug, or above the squabbles. They are probably more freaked out than the multitudes that think Trump can’t possibly win, or a Biden victory saves Democracy. It fundamentally sucks to see where America is headed, and be individually powerless to stop it.
The only valid reason to vote for the democrats at this point is to spite the republicans. That’s it.
Withhold your vote or you’re complicit in genocide.
Withhold your vote and people who don’t care about or like genocide will decide the future of this country.
Why is Dale Earnhardt giving political lessons to a red hat?
Class solidarity, I bet those terms are well received by democrats
I’m out of the loop - who is the person with the “Plus” hat? Maybe the same person as in this meme?
That would be Dale Earnhardt
Thank you! Is there a reason Dale Earnhardt is in these memes? Is he a leftist Nascar driver? (Maybe your video will answer my questions, but I don’t have the time to watch an hour long video essay right now, though I’m quite interested and hope to in the future, thanks for the link!)
I see he died in 2001, so all the reasons I could think of as to why he’s in two memes representing the Left are falling short …
He was going left his whole career.
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This would be a very different comment section if that was a blue hat lmao
To me whoever wins doesn’t matter because the US is the country that invades other countries for no reason and then takes pictures of themselves smiling while they electrify the testicles of people defending their homes. Good luck with your voting.
To be fair, we’re not the only one.
I absolutely do not need to be fair about that or think that is any sort of excuse.
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Where do you live hamid
We had a brief chance to elect Sanders and we failed. Hillary gave us Trump.
I was more in favor of Yang, tbh. Dude had some forward-thinking ideas
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The fact liberals are riding and dying for genocide joe is proof that the democrats deserve the bloodbath they’ve set up for themselves when they inevitably lose to the worst candidate possible. The bar is literally underground and they still managed to dig to get under it.
Raise hell, praise Dale
As bad as establishment candidates tend to be, trump is far far worse. The problem with the trump supporters is they boil everything down to “X bad, so not X good!” Trump was an outsider which is why they supported him, but just being an outsider doesn’t automatically make you good, and in his case he’s far worse.
two party system is 50% dictatorship, glad my country have multi party system
the guy that outlawed collective bargaining?
Okay, I’m out of the loop on something
The NLRA was not overturned, its still legal.
Rail workers tried to use their collective bargaining power in negotiating with rail companies, Biden made it illegal and forced them to accept the rail companies terms.
The way to fight the 2 party system, starts at the grass roots and grows upwards, you can Not fight it from the top down.
So say we all.
The only other fast way to fight it is with violence, but without clear national unity and already decent leadership it usually results in some form of autocracy, making the situation worse.
I think you’ve falsely equated violence with revolution.
There are currently arsonists in Atlanta and elsewhere in the US fighting the creation of cop city and projects like it via property damage. That is violence with no danger of creating an autocracy. I’d argue the Black Panthers, the Suffragettes and the IRA all used violence which posed no danger of autocracy.
I do agree that strong group unity, some form of multistate participation, and good leadership and structure, are all very important for it to yield positive results.
Edit: put NRA instead of IRA, fuck me. Fixed now.
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