How many dead Palestinian kids will it take for you to change your vote?

  • FunkyStuff [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    10 days ago

    You vote in the people that will try to make a difference, and if they don’t work out you vote for someone next time.

    You’ve been doing this for how long? The Republicans are never gonna get less fascist. The Democrats are never gonna magically decide to move left either. The only thing that can actually cause a change, a break from the trend of approaching oblivion, is socialist revolution. You’re kowtowing to people who will have you killed for marginal benefit. Take the hint and stop trying to move mountains for them.

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      10 days ago

      I agree we need a socialist revolution. I just feel like it will be easier to organize something like that if we still have a democracy to influence.

      • MayoPete [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netOP
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        It will be harder to organize either way.

        It was Democrats who brought in the cops to remove the Pro-Palestine camps. They put down the BLM movement. They killed the railworker strike. They failed to enforce any protections for COVID.

        If you give them your vote, you’re endorsing that. They didn’t earn your vote! Vote 3rd party then join an org.

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        9 days ago

        Biden has crushed union strikes and protests all over the country and no one gives a shit. Somehow that is more fertile ground than the energized populace that came out to fight everything Trump did? People even gave a fuck about him pardoning a goddamned sheriff! Meanwhile Biden gives billions to cops and no one gives a shit. When Trump bombed Syria at least some of you flipped out (though most started talking about how “presidential” he was finally being. Sickening.) now with an ongoing genocide you can’t even pretend to care. These are the conditions you believe to be better for organizing? Organizing for what? Next election where we have to vote for the democrats just this one time if you’re any indication.
        Tim Walz sicced the fucking military on BLM protesters in 2020!