YearOfTheCommieDesktop [they/them]

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Cake day: July 12th, 2023

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  • feel free to vote for the genocide guy. It just won’t make a real difference, and you’ll have the weight of voting for genocide on your conscience. the point of agitating against biden isn’t just to change people’s voting behavior, its to reinforce that electoralism is a waste of time and energy that could maybe make a real difference if spent elsewhere. Politicians rule at the beck and call of capital, if conditions are right for fascism, electing a liberal won’t stop it, and if they aren’t, electing a fascist won’t let them go beyond the constraints placed by capital and the material conditions of the country in enacting their goals.

    People on lemmy love to say “well this is just voting, it takes 5 minutes, I’m not campaigning for him, so doesn’t prevent me from doing other organizing” which is technically true, but coming on here and hand wringing about it kinda makes me doubt that the asker is actually committed to the struggle.

    maybe we’re all just larping but if we are to get serious about organizing a revolutionary party it will require a lot more dedication and consistency than constantly hand wringing about electoralism or merely volunteering on the weekends