jungwildeandfree:
naamahdarling:
hyperlexichypatia:
transfaguette:
i kind of wish the anti voting people wouldn’t dance around the idea of what happens after the election. Like okay, the democrats lose, you taught them a lesson (and fwiw, I do think its a legitimate message to send- the people are not happy with the actions and status quo of the DNC). Now What. Trump, the multiply indicted crime president who incited a violent mob upon the capitol, is now President. He has all the qualities you hate about Biden, AND more, except he and his administration have even less reason to be sensitive to the wishes of their democratic constituents. He is a puppet for the far right and white supremacists and christian nationalists. I really shouldn’t even have to go over this- we LIVED it already. Genuinely asking, is this what you want? Because frankly I do not think 4 more years of Trump is worth it over Biden. Your hands are not clean, this is the future you want to choose. I just don’t understand why.
“The revolution” is not an acceptable answer.
“the revolution” will outright kill people, the very ones doomers and accelerationists claim to be most concerned about. I shouldn’t even have to qualify statements with “I don’t like Biden”. It isn’t about liking it not liking him. It’s about the fucking nightmare things will become under Trump. It’s about surviving and working relentlessly and thanklessly for incremental change until larger change can be made, and a great many people invested in doing that work will either not survive or will be too burdened scrabbling to that they become unable to do that work. People need to fix their shit about this. In four years the fucking shitstain could be DEAD. Let’s buy ourselves those four years for Christ’s sake.
like i am sorry you are uncomfortable with the possibility of being complicit in the atrocities perpetrated by the global north. but guess what, you already are. it’s the privilege of being a citizen in The imperial center that allows you to pretend that your uwu good person pilatepilled abstention of civic duty is morally neutral. citizenship in a power is complicity in its policy, and the only way to ease our complicity as citizens is to act with every means available to us. that includes voting.
People in the replies talking about all of the work they are doing in their communities “instead” of voting– the restorative justice and the mutual aid and the land back and all of the other good, useful, and necessary work–
Why is this an instead? Why can you not do these things AND take a couple hours out of one day of your life to vote? Do you think any of this organization is going to be easier under Trump?
“I am doing these other kinds of activism instead of canvassing / phone banking / get out the vote” – that makes sense! You have a finite amount of time and energy! No one can do all of the work!
“I am doing these other kinds of activism instead of voting” – Uh-huh. And are these other kinds of activism in the room with us now? Or is your “activism” actually just “yelling on tumblr?”
If you were doing anything tangible in the world, it would be affected by the laws and policies you live under–the ones that will determine whether and what your kids eat at school; and what they learn there; and how your communities and protests are policed; and the conditions in the jails; and how likely you are to see the inside of one for sheltering undocumented people or providing abortion pills or DIY HRT.
If you were doing that work, you would know real people for whom a second Trump administration would mean deportation or forcible detransition or quitting college or going hungry, and you would need to be able to look them in the eye.
If you were doing that work, you would know that working with other people to achieve a goal sometimes requires compromising, even on issues that are important to you, but that getting things done, even incrementally, is worth that compromise.
If you were doing that work, you would have the experience of making things happen in the real world–gardens planted, children fed, houses built–and you would know that getting your hands dirty working is so, so much more satisfying than sitting alone and keeping them clean.
“I’m doing ~real important activism~ instead of voting–” Bullshit.
it’s a battle where both sides count up how many people want one thing or another, and then instead of murdering each other, they agree to count the larger side as the winner. this is an improvement
if you can’t be bothered to show up for a vote, why should anyone expect you to show up for the harder approach? if you just keep waiting until someone perfect shows up, you’ll be sitting on your ass for the rest of your life
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