claim 1: “voting doesn’t change anything”

Never forget the recent case of Kris Mayes, who refuses to uphold the Arizona supreme court’s sweeping ban of abortion.

Kris Mayes only won her 2022 election by 280 votes. Voting changes things.

claim 2: “but genocide joe”

Yep. Hold that fucker’s feet to the fire. He has blood on his hands

But trump has promised to be indisputably worse.

I won’t tell you how to vote. I just encourage you to vote. You’re not radical for ditching the only miniscule right the state has granted you to do some small aid for your neighbors.

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    Vote, or don’t.

    The important thing is that electoralism won’t solve our problems and is a waste of time for the working class.

    Edit: Downvote me all you like. But I’d be interested if any of you have a plan of voting capitalism away. I’m all ears.

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      huge news you’ll be happy to hear: you can do both voting and direct action. those aren’t somehow mutually exclusive. i do both. 👍 hope this helps

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        Never claimed otherwise. I critizised the whole practice of trusting in electoralism.

        All that discourse surrounding electoralism distracts from proper political action. How many people vote every soandso years and think that this was the vital act of a democratic society?

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      3rd parties can be made viable by passing electoral reform at the state level.

      We aren’t Russia (yet), we can still change things if we change how we vote! Look up a video on First Past the Post voting for more information on how and why the spoiler effect exists.

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        I live in Europe, so I know about other votino systems (and I know the game theory behind fptp voting, thanks).

        Even in Europe, where you have a more broad spectrum of parties in parliament, you can’t vote away capitalism.