They have you in a check mate. Some people still don’t see it.
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Murse@slrpnk.net 1 day agoYeah this is way beyond voting. Even in the context of just voting, it’s often necessary to vote for a lesser evil. Case in point, all the “Kamala didn’t earn my vote!” who handed Trump the presidency on a silver platter.
You gotta make strategic choices with voting, and sometimes that kinda sucks.
So do that. But also break out the guillotines when the people you voted for start behaving maliciously. That’s what we’re failing, and that’s why things have gone so far shit.
RockBottom@feddit.org 17 hours ago
Murse@slrpnk.net 17 hours ago
From the voting angle? Yeah I’m as tired of picking the 2nd worst candidate as anyone else. When I push for voter turnout and encourage folks to vote for the least evil option that has a realistic shot of winning, it isn’t with any expectation that things will improve as a result of that person’s policies, it’s to pull the parachute on our freefall into human rights violations, locally and abroad.
From the guillotine angle? ‘They’ don’t have us in jack, we just don’t have a spine. We could turn this shit around practically overnight, but no one (self included - I’ll own my share of the blame here) wants to get their hands dirty.
RockBottom@feddit.org 16 hours ago
If you have a spine shows once you organize.
Murse@slrpnk.net 16 hours ago
I don’t. I literally acknowledged that in my previous post. I’m in the same boat as everyone else who isn’t willing to risk their life or freedom over this.
There’s a reason I say “we” in these types of criticisms.
Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
That line has been dead for over a year, you need to find a new scapegoat.
Murse@slrpnk.net 23 hours ago
Not sure what argument you think you’re making. If we had a 100% turnout and still had enough people waste their vote on some protest candidate or even directly for Trump as some kind of accelerationist nonsense, the situation would still be what I’m griping about, which is people failing to vote strategically. Nonvoters are only part of the issue.
…and not that it matters, but I don’t buy that article’s pitch for a second. High voter turnout trends blue. A study can hypothesize to the contrary, but a single study doesn’t prove shit (in any context - peer review ftw).