• Passerby6497@lemmy.worldEnglish
    13·
    2 months ago

    HOW DID NOT VOTING WORK IN 2016 AND 2024??

    Fuck off with this bullshit. Voting isn’t enough, but it is the minimum and you’re a fucking moron if you think not voting is a choice that won’t hurt you in the long run.

    Advocate for local mutual aid and work from the bottom to improve things, of course. But if you sit out voting because it won’t help, you’re already not helping so shut the fuck up

    • Zorque@lemmy.worldEnglish
      143·
      2 months ago

      You absolutely can. Its just you actually have to show up first, and not focus on a single election, and vote pragmatically instead of with “principle”.

        • Zorque@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          2 months ago

          Well since people keep not showing up, focusing on a single election, and voting (or not) based on their “principles” (re: ego), it’s not.

          Considering alternatives require all those things (and usually more), I don’t see anything else working any better though.

            • Zorque@lemmy.worldEnglish
              2·
              2 months ago

              If the victims (ourselves included, no matter your nationality) never do anything to fix their own situation, no one else is going to do it for them. There is no white knight coming for you, sitting on your ass and waiting for someone else to fix everything for you is how fascism takes hold.

    • Passerby6497@lemmy.worldEnglish
      31·
      2 months ago

      But you can not-vote and welcome fascism in with open arms.

      Good going heros, you fascism-d Townsville, all because VoTiNg Is NoT gOoD eNoUgH and you couldn’t do the bare minimum

    • gigachad@piefed.socialEnglish
      44·
      2 months ago

      I mean if anything besides communism counts as “Fascism” to you, you are probably right. I am not quite sure if your authoritarian alternative sounds better to me than democracy though.