“Fascism? I’m totally fine with it” -conservatives
“Fascism? Well… As long as the other guy is 1% more fascist I’m totally fine with it” -liberals
Ah yes, more “don’t bother voting” propaganda.
The message should be “you need to do more than just vote”
Do radlibs have a MLM scheme where they get commission for getting people to vote for their cult leaders?
(I mean that would explain why they’re so desparate that they even try to shill voting to their worst enemies, the anti-imperialists)
the opposite. Checks are written when the rich and genociders get the voters to vote like they want. By comparison, No one gets paid when we all choose to do the decent thing instead.
Why would they pay off the voters when they can just pay off the lawmakers? Way cheaper.
So start local with a third party, then. I hear DSA is actually having some luck building up that way, and once you built a local foundation, they actually become viable at higher levels. A third party is never going to just come out of nowhere and win the presidency, but with a foundation under them… Well, people are getting tired of Democrats, and they might be willing to entertain other options.
Plus, if they just get big enough, other parties can actually influence the platforms of the main parties. The corporate parties are never going to give us everything we want, but that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t take what incremental change we can.
…We just have to vote…
The title of the post says voting isn’t enough.
Personally I’m not against voting (although I’m against the “support the lesser evil” rhetoric). I just hate that libs constantly downplay political violence (whether it be direct violence against politicians or their supporters or destruction of property) as an available tool that must never be used unless absolutely necessary. That if you do use it, you must distance yourself from leftists, anti-capitalists, Democrats, and basically make it seem like you only did it cause you were bored. Not doing so would hurt us too much.
If you actually thought this the only time you would give this response is when voting was actually occurring.
Capitalists must be so relieved that socialist and communist enclaves advocate disengaging from the electoral process, as if an afternoon or less spent voting, two if you vote in a primary, precludes one from otherwise protesting, organizing, or lifting a finger to resist.
Not voting for genocide does more good than any amount of volunteer work within the democratic party could ever do.
Is that charlie kirk
Anti state violence meme
Hell yea
Posted by someone furiously jerking off to an imperialist invasion
The irony could not be more palpable
The only imperialist invasion is the burgerland empire’s nazi puppet gov in Ukraine
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Then go back to reddit
God there are too many liberal empire propagandists on Lemmy
You’re on a platform designed by tankies, dumbass
All these opinionated hot takes lately, but not a whole lot of input on what should be done then? Just not vote? General strike would probably be the best bet, but good luck trying to organize that. I’d love to hear some more hot takes just in time to convince people to abstain from even going to the polls. How many of these people touting these views are actually doing things like grassroots work, I wonder? Or is that what posting memes on the internet is supposed to be considered?.. What’s the goal here? To shit on the libs? Ok, let’s hear a coherent concept of what we can all do to fight the broken system, that’s actually plausible and not just some fantasy circle jerk.
organize
There you go, you answered it yourself. Involve yourself with an actual political principled leftist party.
Just not vote?
Begging for people to understand “voting isn’t enough” doesn’t mean “you shouldn’t vote” unless that person includes “and you shouldn’t participate in it”.
You shouldnt vote for genociders.
Agreed.
make demands from dem candidates and when they wont deliver, dont vote for them. They need to be scared of us, and they arent.
Oh, that’s absolutely true !!! lol
Repeating the last letter to denote holding a word out is one of my biggest icks for captioned images/memes.
Is rarely the sound that would be lengthened, and it gets super double extra annoying when the repeated letter is SILENT.
“Voteeeeeee” is just unambiguously wrong, and the creator of the title of this post should feel bad.
Trueeeeee
I get it, it’s hard to afford therapy when the system doesn’t want you to get better
2A defenders have been real quiet ever since the surge in ICE shootings
I can do both. I can vote and I can be violent.
Are you calling for a civil war? I don’t get these posts.
Vote with your dollar.
Vote with your dollar.
Doesn’t work, a tiny number of capitalists have more of them, and created a system / rigged game (bourgeois “democracy”) that perfectly serves their interests.
Not with that attitude. I mean, if you don’t eat McDonald’s, it is going to go away. People stopped eating Burger King and they are dropping like flies in my city.
Like, literally, you are on Lemmy for this reason, I would suppose: because time is money, and it takes time to collect data. So you aren’t spending time on social media outside of the fedeverse.
Voting with your dollar in a capitalist system only works if you have billions of them
not even, only if you are spending billion of them… (if you don’t use them you have no capitalist impact)
You can’t fight against capitalism with violence, this cause only more violence and suffering. Because the elite has all the force and weapons, apart to turn with it the oligarchs in martyrs, justifying more oppression. You can use votes, demonstrations, strikes. boycotts, sabotage. education and intelligence to fight the system, using it’s flaws against it.
You can only fight capitalism using violence. This cause non-violent acts are turned into merchandises. The profits made on red t-shirt with Che Guevara’s picture are profits. Votes, demonstrations, strikes only have value if they come with a demonstration of capacity of violence.
Which right was given by the imperialists without a fight or their fear of a fight?
Even social democrates use this. They make the richests affraid of a communist revolution to make them accept to give back a little bit of that they have stolen to workers. But they don’t do that to reduce violence, they try to balance the threats to make their living out of them.
Violence to force imperialists to renounce to their priviledges is unavoidable. The level of violence it will needs only depends on them. And they can’t coexist with a non-violent society, since their way of living is to exploit others (which is a constant violence).
You can’t fight against capitalism with violence,
Historically the only way you can fight against capitalism is with violence. There has never been a case in its entire ~400 year history where its relinquished power to socialist alternatives without violence.
“You can’t possibly fight the system, the elites have all the force and weapons! They’ll probably let you vote them out though idk…”
