Imagine the mental gymnastics you have to go through to argue that not voting for a genocidal maniac is privilege. Basically what this person saying is that if you are Palestinian you should vote for and support the person who is actively enabling the genocide of your people because they are afraid of what Trump might do because they themselves might be affected by it. How is that not privilege?

The most effective way of achieving any meaningful change is protesting and holding politicians accountable no matter who is in power. But they're arguing for not doing that. To blindly accept and not protest or even criticize a person enabling genocide. Who cares what you vote for? A single vote doesn't mean shit but standing up and fighting against fascism and genocide is what matters. Not only are many of these liberals privileged they are fucking cowards too.

  • CloutAtlas [he/him]
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    8 months ago

    Step 1: Vote for the lesser evil so things only get moderately more shitty every day instead of way more shitty every day

    Step 1.5: Shut down any alternative to voting for the great shitstain or the greater shitstain. It's one or the other, bucko.

    Step 2: Keep voting for the lesser evil for the rest of your life

    Step 2.5: Shut down any consideration that a country that forces you to vote for either a great shitstain or a greater shitstain requires fundamental change that cannot and will not come from a ballot box. Shut down any thought that voting for either the great shitstain or the greater shitstain will further cement both their powers so the pipe dream of "change via ballot box" slips further and further away every passing moment.

    Step 3: Hope things will get better

    Step 3.5: Distract yourself with treats and/or being smug and condescending to those who have not/will not follow steps 1 through to 3 for being privileged

    Step 4: Things don't get better, cope because things could have been worse if you didn't valiantly defend the great shitstain to the bitter end.

    Step 5: Die miserably under fascism lite, content you didn't die even more miserably under full strength fascism. Don't spend a single moment considering how things might be different.

    Ah, the American dream.