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  • came_apart_at_Kmart [he/him, comrade/them]
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    2 years ago

    of course, voting is only one of the things Calvin lists that he won't do, which includes "not follow complex issues". but any time someone says, "hey, vote also" there's always this big pushback against everything said.

    "people should vote" is not the same thing as "people should only vote", but conflating the two allows one to remove what amounts to a relatively small errand once every few years and rebrand laziness as cleverness.

    voting isn't cringe. if voting was completely useless, they wouldn't keep trying to stop black people from doing it. and whenever i go in to push buttons, aside from whatever spectacle big ticket BS is going on, there are about a dozen other local things going on that deserve attention.

    but some people just want to be edgy and act like ignoring whatever little power they have within electoralism is The Only Real Leftism ™️

    • Abraxiel
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      2 years ago

      If you ever enter a polling location, you get Havana syndrome that makes you a lib.

      Yeah, but really, everyone here should still vote. It's not very hard.

    • D61 [any]
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      2 years ago

      but any time someone says, “hey, vote also” there’s always this big pushback against everything said.

      Oh yeah, there's the chunk of nay-sayers who take the term "anti-electoralism" to justify never voting in the elections of a liberal democracy.

      Also, Calvin is a literal child and is repeating what big brained adults say, both with way more confidence that they deserve to have. A part of me really wants to think there's an important message in that combination.