Idk I'd argue votes do matter because even though they don't actually provide any substantial change, they help create the idea of a mandate for the people who receive the votes. For instance, more votes for a fascist candidate or party emboldens the far-right. And inversely, the fewer votes socialist parties receive the more marginal they seem.
The revolution will never be won at the ballot box but it's important for socialists to demonstrate that they exist, to stand and be counted. And it's also important to sway people away from liberals and fascists.
https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1920/lwc/ch07.htm
You're right but you also aren't really the "Bert" here.
The common cold in question having killed about 200,000 Palestinians? I think I'll pass.
translated from liberal: "I am reasonably comfortable in the imperial core and I want that material privilege to continue, even if it means the death of the biosphere."
