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  • Kool_Newt@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Your and my votes generally do not matter because a single vote usually is not going to make a difference... (which seems to me to imply (in this case) don't bother voting, revolution is the only way to make things better)

    I see this attitude a lot in the auth-left. Is this a general thing or only counts when talking about voting?

    What about driving SUVs? I'm just one person, doesn't matter if I drive an SUV right? It's only one automobile. And promoting the concept that people shouldn't drive SUVs would be silly right?

    What about consuming animal products? It wouldn't matter if people become vegan or not right?, the cow is already dead, the carbon emissions already emitted, and one person eating a hamburger won't make any difference, no sense in eating less meat or trying to promote eating less meat, it'd be no more useful than voting/promoting voting. The only solution would be to outlaw being non-vegan, and anyone who wants a burger deserves the wall right?

    • Vncredleader
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      1 year ago

      There is no fucking "auth-left" get outta here with that liberal bs. Also real "you want to decolonize? wow so you want to shoot all white people" energy there

    • GarbageShoot [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      auth-left

      Polcomp is a stupid meme that it is below you to believe in even as a liberal

      • Kool_Newt@lemm.ee
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        1 year ago

        What should I use instead? And what other ways should I differentiate myself, an anarcho-communist, from other leftists who want to use state power to get their way? Is that not authoritarian?

        There may be dumb people making dumb memes about it, but I haven't seen anything that makes more sense. If you can point me to something better I'd appreciate it.

          • Kool_Newt@lemm.ee
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            1 year ago

            Chain link fences are useless. See I can spout random statements that sound like facts too.

            • BurgerPunk [he/him, comrade/them]
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              1 year ago

              michael-laugh the political compass was invented solely to make "right libertarianism" look like a real ideology. It was pushed by billionaire money into schools to rot peoples brains. Its not real and provides no insight, it only furthers political illiteracy in the US. Its not a random statement, its a bullshit concept

                • BurgerPunk [he/him, comrade/them]
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                  1 year ago

                  Your buying into the central assumption that their is such a thing as authoritarianism. All governments are authoritarian its a meaningless distiction in political economy.

                  Right libertarianism is a bullshit ideology, because its just liberalism.

                  The system that works better is just reality. Understanding that political economy is a single entity not separate axis

            • BurgerPunk [he/him, comrade/them]
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              1 year ago

              Show

              Just to point out how bullshit it is.

              There was a thread maybe a month back where we all took the test and everyone is "left libertarian," because the entire design of this thing is ridiculous.

    • D61 [any]
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      1 year ago

      Bad examples.

      The idea of voting is for collective action (maybe). If 51 % vote for something, the we all are supposed to do the thing.

      It would be like, "If 51% of people went vegan, then 100% of the population would be required to be vegan. But since vegans are not 51% of the people, no concessions should be made towards their beliefs."

      Honestly, the Republicans and conserva-Dems are doing that right now with an transphobic arguments along the line of, "Hey, trans people are such small portion of the population, wouldn't it be easier for them all to just, you know, not be trans?"