• DarkCloud@lemmy.world
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    16 days ago

    You can actually hold protests about the trains, and talk about them immediately after the election…

    …and you’ll be doing so with someone who is slightly more likely to be concerned with their image, and hence slightly more likely to listen.

    But only if you get out and vote in that direction. If you don’t vote - there may be a chance you just never get to talk about the trains again. Or even that talking about them is seen as illegal criticism of the state.

    That’s the nature of fascism, you can’t be sure of what freedoms will be taken from you.

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      16 days ago

      …and you’ll be doing so with someone who is slightly more likely to be concerned with their image, and hence slightly more likely to listen.

      Why would they be concerned with their image if people are going to vote for them anyway? We have a candidate who supports literal genocide and that’s not bad enough for people to do something. What exactly, precisely, practically, is the mechanism for holding a politician accountable when you will always vote for them and won’t take any actions outside the electoral system?