LOL. What are you, 18? You think letter writing and call in campaigns do anything? Man, voting doesn’t even do anything. These people don’t work for you and they don’t care what you think except as far as they can keep you working and not trying knock over their gravy train. They don’t give a shit about angry phone calls or letter or email or petitions. They haven’t cared for at least century.
Listen. Go research the civil rights movement. Go look at the black voter turnout and tell me that the reason civil rights passed is because of voting. It wasn’t. It was because of riots. How do we know? Because both the Ds and the Rs were forced to capitulate in successive terms. Nixon had to do a ton for civil rights because people were in the streets threatening to shut the system down. And then you know what he did? He launched the drug war to further criminalize black people and the hippies that supported them. And you know who stepped right up to help? The Democrats. Because that’s who both parties are. They are racist, misogynistic, genocidal PR firms providing spin to different audiences so that the population doesn’t try to stop the empire.
CADmonkey@lemmy.world 1 week ago
How are we going to riot if people keep posting about how they are giving up before they even vote?
frisbird@lemmy.ml 1 week ago
Again, you have it completely and utterly wrong. Alternatives to rioting are pleasant fictions that give people excuses to not riot. Because they believe in voting, they think that that’s enough. We have to show them reality to get them on the streets. Letting people live in the fantasy land where voting matters means fewer people on the streets.
CADmonkey@lemmy.world 1 week ago
You realize that the same person can vote and riot, right?
This is nonsensical.
Stop telling peolle to give up.
frisbird@lemmy.ml 1 week ago
Give up on voting. It’s literally never worked in your life, your parents lives, nor your grandparents lives. It’s a lie created by the ruling class to pacify you. Stop relying on the vote. Start getting angry and shutting the system down. If you can find time to vote between rioting, striking, and sabotage, go ahead, but there’s probably something more important you could be doing to dismantle the system that has been oppressing you and your fellow humans for centuries.