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minus-squarelumpenproletariat@quokk.auOPMlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11arrow-down1·2 months agoNot as long as voters keep thinking voting is the solution.
minus-squareSaapas@piefed.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9arrow-down3·2 months agoIt’s not one or the other, you can still vote to try and minimize damage while working towards or dreaming about revolution.
minus-square__反いじめ戦隊@ani.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down1·2 months ago minimize damage Good sir, WHAT DAMAGE‽
minus-squareSaapas@piefed.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·2 months agoSome candidates are worse than others. You’d preferably would want the less shit one to win
minus-square__反いじめ戦隊@ani.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·2 months agoIf a political system yields worse candidates, why then should one support a system that still causes damage‽ Why are you blaming a voter for being responsible for harm reduction, when the system still creates damage?
minus-squareSaapas@piefed.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 months agoI’m struggling to understand your point. Are you asking why you should vote for the less shitty candidate?
minus-square__反いじめ戦隊@ani.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 months agoWait, you don’t comprehend your own political system?
minus-squareSaapas@piefed.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 months agoWe don’t use First Past The Post. Where did you assume I was from and why…?
minus-square__反いじめ戦隊@ani.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 months agoNow that I read your bio The politics of Finland take place within the framework of a parliamentary representative democracy. Finland is a republic What kind of damage is Finland producing that you felt the need to reply in an anarchist community?
minus-squareMousePotatoDoesStuff@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·2 months agoI don’t think anyone politically active thinks voting is the end-all-be-all of political activity. As for the average person… if you convince them voting doesn’t matter, you know what they’re going to do instead? NOTHING. They’re not going to go out of their way to join a political revolution. They’re just going to give up and say “I guess there’s nothing that can be done.”
Not as long as voters keep thinking voting is the solution.
It’s not one or the other, you can still vote to try and minimize damage while working towards or dreaming about revolution.
Good sir, WHAT DAMAGE‽
Some candidates are worse than others. You’d preferably would want the less shit one to win
If a political system yields worse candidates, why then should one support a system that still causes damage‽ Why are you blaming a voter for being responsible for harm reduction, when the system still creates damage?
I’m struggling to understand your point. Are you asking why you should vote for the less shitty candidate?
Wait, you don’t comprehend your own political system?
We don’t use First Past The Post. Where did you assume I was from and why…?
Now that I read your bio
What kind of damage is Finland producing that you felt the need to reply in an anarchist community?
I don’t think anyone politically active thinks voting is the end-all-be-all of political activity.
As for the average person… if you convince them voting doesn’t matter, you know what they’re going to do instead?
NOTHING.
They’re not going to go out of their way to join a political revolution.
They’re just going to give up and say “I guess there’s nothing that can be done.”