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lumpen 🍉 III @scrum@wanderingwires.net
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uspol voting, intra anarchist shit talking Election day is one of the few times the majority of people take any kind of concrete political action. You can say this is symptomatic of a society where the majority are completely alienated from the political process, but why would you discourage people from voting when it takes maybe a few hours every few years? Who benefits? Why expend energy doing that? There's no way you could possibly compete with multi billion dollar electoral campaigns. And In a country where almost half of eligible voters don't vote anyway, what difference does it make if you persuade a handful of people not to vote? What will marginally increasing voter apathy in an apathetic ass country accomplish?

My position, which is equally absurd, is that i don't tell anyone to vote or who to vote for, nor would I discourage anyone to do so. YOU figure it out, do what
you think is right, weight the options etc You choose. It's seriously not my problem or responsibility what other people choose to do with their vote because I have absolutely no control over it.

The converse of that is, who the fuck are you to tell
me what to do? Oh i'm now reponsible for genocide if i vote for Harris, i got news for you bub, we're all responsible for this shit, don't act like not voting absolves you in any way from being complicit in the death machine, do you think if people don't vote for Harris the genocide will stop? or is it just about moral superiority tokens? Some of ya'll took that George Carlin routine way too literally.

So I've decided to endorse Harris to comedically annoy everyone kolektiva. Also, In Florida there are constitutional amendments to enshrine abortion rights and fully legalize marijuana, that's obviously an improvement, lmao other states have other things on the ballot that make an objective difference in people's lives, like whether fundamentalist whackjobs take control of school-boards, or whether some guy who wants to put all homeless Also, people in camps gets on the city council. Seems there are perfectly valid reasons to vote that aren't even related to the federal governnet

Like it really isn't a big deal people can just vote or not, chill out

but i do understand liberals are annoying as fuck and you're mostly reacting to the totalitarian election hell we're all living through, and it's all good, love ya'll