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This is lib bullshit. Voting is how you keep the Epstein class in power.
Prove me wrong and nominate an anti-genocide candidate.
Bonus: https://www.spyculture.com/john-krasinski-plays-the-innocent-act-when-it-comes-to-making-political-propaganda-again/
Voting for the Epstein class is how you keep the Epstein class in power.
Vote for something else.
Voting system does not let you? Then you're not done democracying yet.
A no-vote is a vote for any tyrant will do. Spoiling your ballot paper is a protest vote.
Voting system doesn't let you? Then you're not done democracying yet! Democracyify harder! ;D
"A no-vote is a vote for any tyrant will do."
why would you lie about something so obviously false?
Why do you presume that's so obviously false?
It seems like you're not getting what it's alluding to. Or worse, intentionally muddying the waters and poisoning the well, as well as doing an ad-hominem smear on my character asserting it's a lie.
Why do you think that's a lie?
Is it not immediately evident to you what that's getting at? In how a no vote is silent in the vote-count, and lends more weight to the turnout, in whichever tyrant they vote for? Isn't its poetic expression evoking in your mind how a no-vote is a way of saying your voice matters less, so little in fact, that any tyrant will do?
Does it not become clear to you the distinction between a spoiled ballot in protest and a no-vote having no weight of protest?
Do you think if the majority do not vote, their no-votes are counted, and then there's no government? Because that's obviously false, right? Isn't that the majority of times? Certainly of the population, if not just the electorate. They count the votes of the turnout. Don't vote, don't become part of the turnout, then your vote, your voice at the ballot box, is as mute as saying any tyrant will do.
Pray tell, how is this seen otherwise to you? Where do you perceive a lie? Where do you see the falsehood that you consider so obvious in this?
Larping revolutionaries don't understand that all Marxist attempts in history have either failed, collapsed, or reformed to adopt capitalism in some way. At what point can we face reality and face the facts and just admit that Marxism is a failed ideology? There's more to this world than a shitty ideology made by a German guy during the industrial revolution for his era. We live in different times, we require something different.
I'm no fan of Marx, but, is your critique of Marx that he's German and from the industrial revolution era?
An ambiguous offer of "something different" sounds like the same vapid hopium lies the purple party stay in power by.
Stay strong, that McCarthyanism will produce something good eventually. /s
I'll prefer the range between anarcho-communism(-10,-10), individualist anarcho-socialism(0,-10), and social democracy(-5,-5(ish)), than to get terrorised into the right, believing it's the path to freedom, while power continues to mechanistically consolodate by the rich making themselves richer, using their money as power, while we're told "keep believing we're free, and fear the communists seeking to take away all your freedom", while the fatcats take away all our freedom. Big brother or big baron? Neither, thanks. Nor big bully, big bank, big blight nor big bot. No matter how much they try preen themselves magnanimous by whatabout big other. It's all big bad. Freedom first. So lets stop falling for it, and take our hands off from around each others necks.
This goes beyond voting, the rhetoric is meant to create cynicism, ie to suppress personal involvement in politics. Not voting is a side effect that happens to benefit the same people, but the idea is for citizens to disengage from politics altogether
Interesting etymology aside...
The word idiot used to mean someone who does not take part in politics.
They're making idiots of us.
So much so, in such broken systems as USA has, they also make idiots of those who only vote. The 2nd least participation, next to not even voting.
Libs would rather argue with you than their centrist friends who vote split ticket.
not voting also keeps the epstien class in power, you are just as complacent, the difference is not doing anything then whining like a bitch about it or actually trying to push for positive change despite having to deal with shitty people