• uberfreeza@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    “Overthrow your government” and “simply have a better government” are not solutions. They’re wishes. Nothing resembles a concrete plan to make an actual change. My statement stands.

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      Voting is also not a concrete plan. It is literally handing over your power to someone else that will proceed to do harm in your name. Voting is structurally a ritual of mutual agreement to respect and accept the outcomes of the vote, even if the outcome of the vote is that the people you selected direct the world’s most evil military to commit the highest possible crimes humanity has ever invented. Voting is not a concrete plan and it’s not a solution. It’s a wish and an abdication at the same time.

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      Lmao. They’re only wishes because there’s no way to do them without any effort. Voting is the only acceptable pathway to y’all because you don’t actually have to do anything.

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        Yet you think people who can’t even be bothered to vote are going to show up for the revolution. How has that worked out in the last decade? Where are y’all?

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          We aren’t voting because we don’t want to support genocide not because we “can’t be bothered”

          I genuinely wonder if liberals are literate. Do you even try to read what we write?

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          Who said it’s the people that didn’t show up to vote? I’m talking about the people who know that voting is the least impactful tool that we have.

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      You know most governments get overthrown? Like on a long enough timeline it’s basically inevitable. America is due for a hard reset. You know you still allow slavery as punishment for a crime?

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      Yes they are, you just don’t like them because you’d have to actually do something about it.