If you can't ass up 10 minutes every two years to at least indicate the direction you'd like things to take then that's on you.
Please check again, its not 10 minutes for everyone.
Because some very bad people who do real damage in the real world make a massive priority out of making it difficult to vote, because it's still a pretty powerful tool that can be used against them.
Voting is a better use of part of your morning (or whatever) than almost anything else you could be doing on that one day, positive-change-wise. And abstaining from voting in an election with about as crystal-clear difference between the candidates as you could ask for, and thinking somehow that's a positive thing if you care about change in the world, is one of the weirdest fuckin things I've ever heard.
If you felt like being a bit more charitable then you might assume a stance such as mine doesn’t derive from losing 10 minutes—kind of a weird assumption given the content of the image?
What about the fact that this particular state project can draw a continuous line to one of the most brutal forms of slavery in recorded history which still largely determines the distribution of wealth and power (through inheritance and lobbyist groups), it may have singlehandedly destroyed the environment for all of humanity in less than 300 years, it wiped out an entire continent of cultures and continues to fund genocides and other conquests (with your money/labour) today. At what point would you put your foot down? I must have a lower threshold than that.
Sssssshhh
Bad-faith actors are tryin to say all the cool left-leaning kids aren't voting this year
All of a sudden for no particular reason
You're messin up the narrative with your simple good sense
Bad-faith actors
All of a sudden for no particular reason
You're messin up the narrative
Please stop with your conspiracy theories. Voting or not voting is a fiercly debates topic in anarchist circles and not even close to being settled. There is no need for outside interference to start argumemts about voting, anarchists are perfectly capable of this by themselves. Literally just check every anarchist forum, plattform or online community and you will find arguments around everytime there is a mayor election happening.
Reminds me of another comment section in which the OP was assumed to be from the US after posting anti-vote agit-prop, and were demonized for it.
Was kinda funny if it wasn't grim, the moment they had to go "I'm not from America, whoever you vote for, my country's fucked either way".
I swear liberals will do everything but look in a fucking mirror and reflect about their treatment of others.
Regardless, this whole discussion, considering the fact that we're in an anarchist community, is kinda redundant, isn't it? Boots on the ground matter more, activism and community building, these matter more. But then again, I'm not really that active myself out of fear of surveillance (and more), shit, I'm kinda afraid of participating here if I'm to be honest.
Hope y'all stay safe, friends.
but democracy itself hangs in the balance! no really this time for real tho!... if you contentiously abstain from participation all the bad things will happen all at once!!!!
(craven manipulation, the lot of it.) 👎
If you can cast your vote via mail, then get those papers and let someone, who actually wants to but cant vote, vote. Easy win for everyone (kinda)
how is that relevant?
I thought an alternative where we combine someone who doesnt want to participate, someone who wants to vote and some fraud would be appriciated
