• Sami_Uso@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    Stop voting. Burn shit instead.

    The electoral college was put in place as a tool of the bourgeois founding fathers who thought they knew better than regular citizens. I’m done playing along, seems like more and more of us are every election cycle.

    • Vespair@lemm.ee
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      9 months ago

      To stop voting is to throw your hands up and accept your oppression. Voting barely requires even minimal effort on one, maybe two or three days in a year; not realizing it for the harm reduction opportunity it is makes you an idiot.

      The problem you’re circling around but missing isn’t voting itself, it’s assuming voting alone will solve things.

      The solution isn’t “Stop voting. Burn shit instead.”

      The solution is to vote and burn shit until conditions improve.

      Anyone trying to convince you not to vote is either an idiot or a charlatan.

    • focusforte@lemmy.world
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      9 months ago

      Yeah, that’s like the child throwing a temper tantrum because they don’t want to clean the room. That doesn’t actually solve anything. Unless you’re going to start rolling heads and starting an actual violent revolution, you’re not doing anything. And instead you’re just making it more difficult for the rest of us to keep shit together.

      The lawyers of one of the options are literally arguing in court that presidential immunity means he could carry out an assignation of their political opponent and be immune as long as his party has enough power to avoid an impeachment conviction.

    • linearchaos@lemmy.world
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      9 months ago

      I mean, that’s what January 6th was about right? Who needs to vote if you can pull off a successful coup.

      Trump is literally trying to prove in court that the president of the United States has full dictator status for life.

      And if he gets in he isn’t going to give two shitd that you’re burning your neighbor’s house down or burning down businesses. He’ll have no accountability.

      We’re not going to get out of this by fire bombing things. We’ll get out of this by stronger anti-corruption stronger anti gerrymandering and an actual bilateral draining of the swamp.

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      9 months ago

      Stop voting

      Statements like this makes me wish ignorance came at an easier to learn price.

    • LazyBane@lemmy.world
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      9 months ago

      Burning shit is less productive than even voting for the same two corrupted political parties.

      Just vote third party already.

      • DeadBeRisen@lemmy.world
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        9 months ago

        Choosing not to vote in a situation where one party is threatening to never allow free and fair elections ever again and do everything they can to keep and horde their power, is tacitly allowing for such a threat to take hold.

        Voting on a third party is just as effective as not voting.