• bloodfart@lemmy.ml
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    19 days ago

    No.

    I haven’t held my nose for a democrat for going on fourteen years and I’m not going to start now.

    I’m politically active far beyond voting and have spoken face to face with several representatives. They don’t care or listen.

    No amount of voting reform will fix the fundamentally unjust American political system.

    I have been doing the work and will continue to do so. Voting for PSL in this election is part of that work.

    If you’re reading this, don’t fall for the “oh if only we had star or ranked choice” fiddlefarting around the edges garbage. We live in under a fundamentally unjust political system and especially when both major parties are advocating in support of genocide there is no reasonable argument for performing the calculus required to declare one the lesser evil.

    Walk away from omelas.

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      19 days ago

      it must be really nice to be privileged enough to have this viewpoint. and all for what? so you can give yourself a nice ethical pat on the back when you help siphon from the dems, and the gop comes after women and minorities? not sure what your background is but damn dude that’s some fucked up shit

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        19 days ago

        Ok I’ve heard all kinds of different reasons someone might be privileged, but doing work on the ground for years and laying the groundwork for real activism rather than whatever the hell you call this terminally online bullshit, is now what you people call privilege?

        This shit is why Occupy died.

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          19 days ago

          Occupy died because of “terminally online bullshit”? I guess that terminally online bullshit is either more effective than what you’re suggesting or your analysis sucks.

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            19 days ago

            One whole paragraph followed by a comment like that implies someone is usually talking about the whole episode going on and not just the keywords you singled out.

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              I still don’t get why you think occupy died, but regardless it wasn’t because of online shit or coopted lingo.

              I’ve bumped into a bunch of you online socialists before and every one of you thinks your efforts made some profound difference when in reality socialism is still a nothing nowhere movement in the US and we get more fascist every election cycle.

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                14 days ago

                we get more fascist every election cycle

                And whose fault is that? When you give your vote away for free you get rightward drift. Make the fuckers earn it instead of leaving the switch on Vote Blue No Matter Who like the good little liberal you are.