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    • Wheaties [she/her]@hexbear.net
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      1 year ago

      Are you trying to get me bummed out and not vote?

      Drat, you’re on to me!

      But honestly, I don’t care how you vote. In all likelihood, your state’s electoral college is already locked in one way or another. The point is that talking about this precise election cycle as though it is singularly important in history, as though creation and destruction hinge on it… kinda misses the overall pattern it exists in. I remember when Bush was the ultimate evil, a uniquely stupid and backward looking candidate…

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              This is your 100th chance to not come off as a fascist supporter. You better take it!

              You’ve failed to prove any of what you’ve said here. You’re a wrecker, and what you’re advocating for is the most boring shit ever.

              Nobody cares about electoralism anymore, and we’re not going to engage in lesser-evilism. You don’t fight class war and win by engaging in the ruling class’ institutions and the rules they’ve arbitrarily made to defend their class dictatorship.

              The US empire will die, and there is nothing you can do to stop it.

            • BurgerPunk [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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              Just vote for the guy who is less fascist.

              If fascism is on the ballot, then your election is bullshit

              Everything else is pure maybe-later-kiddo Dems pull these same vote panic lines over and over every election. “Its Dems or the end of democracy” if that’s the case then democracy is already over. Not that it ever existed for anyone outside the ruling class

        • UlyssesT [he/him]@hexbear.net
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          I’m sorry fighting is hard.

          It is harder than voting for diet fascism and shitting on people that aren’t insulated and privileged lanyard-wearing smug computer touchers like yourself.

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            This thread has been a fascinating look into the mind of a vote evangelist.

            Since they can only ever conceptualise change occuring via electoralism they seem to see not voting as therefore not doing anything.

            Like, the only way to change the world is by voting for the lesser of two evils and hoping that maybe they might possibly do a watered down version of what you want.

            Fucking bleak, no wonder fake edgy pop-nihilism is so popular among liberals.

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              Like, the only way to change the world is by voting for the lesser of two evils and hoping that maybe they might possibly do a watered down version of what you want.

              Big-time West Wing victory conditions. liberalism

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              If you seriously haven’t heard the slang before, there’s a difference between touching a computer and being a computer toucher in much the say way that most people play video games but only some are capital-G “Epic G!mers.” Coincidentially, the political ideology of both latter groups tend to line up.

              Yes, I physically touched a computer to write this reply. However, I am not in a tech field where I am paid to touch that computer and paid so much on top of that that it’s my paid obligation to have absolutely horrible political takes because they’re in my class interest to believe in them.