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Are you serious right now? Are you aware of just how many people on the Lemmyverse have been arguing that lesser evil voting is not only the only moral choice but a moral choice that has a real impact?
There are so many people who are not actually aware that the system is beyond repair, that believe voting is somehow outside the system that is broken and can be used to repair it.
We need to break the fantasy that keeps people pacified and trapped. We need people to stop fighting about electoralism all together because they have realized it is fundamentally incapable of solving any of the problems they see.
A lot of neo-liberal types thinking it's a viable voting strategy.
And yet many of those people, as far as I can tell from snippets online, spend their days financially supporting the system. They buy daily from billionaires because doing anything else takes work. Starving the billionaires would be a good first step but people don't want the trouble to go without cellphones, gas, fast food, gaming, Starbucks, etc.
That's also a fantasy. There is absolutely no evidence that the masses can starve out the ruling class. It has never been done. Boycotts do not work because they starve the rulers, they work because they quantify the ability to organize quickly and thoroughly. A single boycott in a single city of a single store is enough to demonstrate the ability to organize and the ruling class will react not because they get starved out but because they know the real threat is an organized working class.
Not buying coffee will do about as much as voting will.
“You say life is bad and yet you are alive, how curious!”
They are giving our tax dollars to billionaires. If you pay any taxes at all you support them! Ffs if they put you in jail for being a homeless vagrant get will force you into labor that fucking pays the billionaires!