I know this makes the anti-voting fandom big mad but this is only happening because Murphy was re-elected by a thin margin in November 2021, bucking a 40 year trend of Democratic governors losing re-election in NJ, because enough people voted for him
Remember, people who have a victim complex about voting:
Time to update the good ol’ pinned post:
Depending on the country and level, in most liberal democracies your vote does matter.
But some (like the United States) have been so thoroughly corrupted by friendly fascism and therefore your vote most likely won’t affect any federal decisions.
But here’s the thing. Justbeing a liberal democracy (no matter how undemocratic) still has all kinds of benefits. If the corrupt US government/mega-corporation complex wants to do something bad, like mass censor people they dislike or fight against unions and rebellion against their decisions, they have to do it in more subtle and not as effective ways, compared to let’s say, North Korea or some random African dictatorship.
The US government still needs to abide to some limits, there are lines they simply won’t cross on a whim.
Are the republicans working to push these lines? Yes, but they still can’t just cross them like that.
A little advice from someone studying extremist groups: if you’re in a social media environment where the daily ubiquitous message is that you have no hope of any kind of future and you can’t possibly achieve anything without a violent overthrow of society, you’re being radicalized, and not in the good way.
I guess the Haitian slaves, American colonists in 1776, the French during the 1790s, the Bolsheviks, the Union strikers who gave you a five day week, the Civil Rights leaders, the Black Panthers, the United Farmworker Chicanos, the members of AIM, Native Americans who opposed colonization, the American Red Guard, the Young Lords, the Young Patriots, the Kanaka Maoli group, Nelson Mandela and other anti Apartheid leaders, the drivers of the De-Nazification Movement in Germany, and EVERY FUCKING ANTI COLONIALISM INDEPENDENCE MOVEMENT ON EARTH should have just shut up and let the status quo of society remained
@brainstatic This has honestly got to be the worst most neoliberal take I’ve ever read. Read a history book, literally any book. You should honestly change your name to @lackofbrainstatic
Son, do you not realize that the Bolsheviks replaced a bad system with a worse one? As did the French in the 1790s, after the moderates were pushed out and guillotined? Or are you one of those idiots who just treats every revolution as an inherently good thing because it’s a revolution, aka the exact person being talked about by OP?
Girlypop I’m a woman, don’t call me son you shitass
Ma’am, even US internal documents considered the USSR to be better than feudal tsarist Russia.
The USSR was industrialized, was able to take on Hitler, had high literacy rates, but yes had a lot of fucking problems… but saying feudal tsarist Russia was better just shows you’re a fucking dumbass with shit for brains
After the Russian revolution the USSR became the second most powerful country on earth. Prior to it, it was a feudal crumbling empire about to make the way of Austria Hungary
The USSR was industrialized,
So that was worth the Great Terror?
After the Russian revolution the USSR became the second most powerful country on earth.
So that makes inventing the Gulag system ok?
>Ma’am, even US internal documents considered the USSR to be better than feudal tsarist Russia.
Are you talking about those documents that said they got more calories than the Yanks?
Most of which were (checks notes) potatoes and other cheap vegetables?
Which was based on USSR propaganda documents?
“Radicalism is always good because I think it worked a few famous times” is not a very good argument.
Flipping the table, by definition, means you make a mess.
Ignoring the bad results is not a good idea.
Oh, wow, okay then. I guess the US should have never declared independence. I guess we should have never gotten rid of the monarchies. I guess women’s rights are a big sham, why did they ever get the right to vote anyways? I therefore think that several European states should undemocratically control the entire world. Black people should go back from where they came instead of asking for “equality”, how dare they have such radical and terrorist viewpoints. BLM is an extremist terrorist organisation! The communist vermin are the enemy from within and our great and totally not radical future president Trump will save us!
… Condemning “radicalism” even when the members of said movement clearly don’t intend to harm non-oppressors is a dangerous slippery slope towards condemning all progress, as the definition of radical can change over time.
Nazis are clearly a dangerous radical movement, it’s in their core tenets to needlessly oppress one group of people for the supposed benefit of another.
Movements for equal rights and so on generally don’t do that.
