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it matters if you vote.
Yes, and you should avoid it at all costs.
Yes, but for harm reduction only
If you want to have actual progress you gotta work outside of the system
Correct. But harm reduction is still valuable. You still need to vote, you just shouldn't pretend that voting alone is sufficient.
Sure, if you only vote in general elections and only vote for federal positions.
Local and primary elections allow for much more opportunity for change. But only if you participate.
Not usually. Last time I voted in a local election the candidates every position looked like looked like:
Sucks for you, i guess. But thats not true of everywhere, and often you can often help encourage better candidates by prosthelytizing your ideals to those around you.
We do not live in vacuums, and treating every issue as something you have to solve completely by yourself is a recipe for failure.
Yes. By yourself. Because when two people collaborate its called a government and one of them needs to be in charge
Cripes, they are getting more anti social in their responses. Hey Zorque, if folks don't live in a vacuum, how come cops are allowed to murder me in broad daylight, while my governor can seat in es mansion watching us get bombed on in 4K?
Elaborate on working outside of the system.
Don't beg. Do.
Like what?
Like the other said. Meet up with your neighbors and address those issues together as a community
You can draw inspiration from here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosfygika_of_Alexandras_avenue#Self-organised_structures
cool can my neighbors make 3M two states over stop polluting my drinking water?
What do you want from your government?
Your government won't do it.
Do it your fucking self. I dunno. You want better schools? Start one, improve the ones that exist, whatever. You want safer streets? Start pouring concrete and slashing tires. You want asafe injection site?
After you. Im guessing you don’t actually want any of that.
None of those are exactly my issue, no, but if someone got started on one of those projects and I had spare time, I'd pitch in. I do in fact do the shit I believe in.
Goverent does not give you things. It gives you orders. It corrupts your intentions. Its very heart is rot. The actual stuff is done by people. Those people exist, they live on your street, in your building. Maybe you're one of them, if you're jot a completely bullshit professional managerial fuckhead with no skills-and even then you can learn shit (I did) or function as a warm body. The tools are around. Sometimes they're big and hard to diy/steal, sometimes it’s shit you've got laying around.
Find a local food bank, see if they need help.
Find a local homeless shelter, see if they need help.
Find a local park, see if they need help.
Start a community kitchen.
Start a community trans center.
Start a clothing donation collection.
etc.
Its truly amazing to me the extent to which most people are enfeebled by their learned helplessness.
You can in fact, just do stuff.
Now, its probably a good idea to think that particular stuff or thing through a bit, before hand...
But everybody is seemingly just waiting for permission. You're the one that gives you permission, nobody else.
We don't have an individualistic culture, we have a cowardly culture that pantomimes socially accepted forms of uniqueness.
Wrong community friend.
No. Desiring not to be governed doesn’t mean you block your ears and pretend you aren’t governed. That’s how you get Trump.
Is that really the state of anarchist thought on Lemmy? Capitalism apologia....
Ok let's address some of your concerns, even tho I am not sure you can read given your comments.
Trump is not a product of people not voting, he is a product of the capitalist system, lack of education and people believing that choosing the right person to lead them will fix things.
Additionally for who else are you gonna vote? For the pride genocide party? The only difference is that they only kill brown children while the republicans kill based on economic lines.
And even allowing that there is a "good" and a "bad" party. The voting process itself can be corrupted, that's why you have only 2 parties is America.
Imo the most destructive thing here is that voting is used as a placebo for illiterate Americans and wester Europeans to divert their desire for change and instead of building something or doing something useful, they are happy to elect the next mass murderer and wait 4 years to see that it didn't work.
I can 200% Confirm @A404@lemmy.dbzer0.com is correct.
We don't claim kibble.
Mia & I have been witnessing em make a populist ass off emself.
Troll or not, I think it's honestly time to stop entertaining em.
That guy is a lurker, not a anarchist
I’m obviously going to stop at the ability to read part. I hope you’ve enjoyed typing that. Get that dopamine. You seem unable to hold a single thought in your head for more than a few seconds without screaming. Is there a text Tourette’s
It is not written for you, but as a mark that there are other ways. Only history can show who is right.
Except being right is subjective.
Nah lol. You get Dumpf when you let Capitalists run ur wee ass country. How bout u make bourgies examples than elect ur new capitalist boot?
Ur 2A is for wat nau?
Where do you live?
in ur basement fő
Somewhere with poor public education, I see.
Educate yar uneducated ass
I know all those things.
ᚦn y r u here yappŋ
yar electoral college is in DC .
You don’t understand local voting. Stop making a fool out of yourself or someone’s gonna think you’re a MAGAt, or a Wumao.
Votŋ for wat, fő?
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I think your keyboard is broken