@TCatInReality @textualdeviance @tylervu @MisuseCase @SailorDisco @GottaLaff nodds in agreement
#NonVoting is literally consenting to whatever shit results come out and refusing to even invest the few mins every few years to take part in stopping things from getting shittier.
@forthy42 @PaulaToThePeople I never told people that #Biden would be a saviour,so stop making that shit up!
All I said is that as of now #VoteBlue isn't just a "#LesserEvil" but a "#NecessaryEvil"!
If you really believe that bs then please kindly fuck off because I do intent to outlive #LateStaeCapitalism by all means necessary and sadly that's not gonna fly with the orange tyrant in power.
Yes OFC I wished we'd see #BernieSanders and #AOC instead on the roll, but sadly in the #AmericanOligarchy., the #SuperPAC|s and #BigDonors decide who can even candidate because it's a cleptocracy.
One can #vote for Biden whilst being a public #opposition on the streets, but you can't vote for Trump without inherently having the right to oppose him being stripped by him - as he already publicly stated as his intention!
I don't tell you what to think, I'll merely tell you how things are going to pan out exactly:
OR
I'll end this right here because at this point everything has been said and the sheer fact that #USpol is going to to impact my life against my consent despite being neither citizen nor resident nor eligible to vote is alteady nerve-wrecking and I think #defaitistic #FUD like yours isn't gonna help the situation anyway...
@[email protected] @[email protected] Biden already went into war with Russia, decided that it should be endless, and has his genocide in Gaza. Stop telling people that Biden is a rescue. He's not. He has just more support from allies, so he's more likely to succeed. Both candidates are so defective, that voting for either makes you complicit with their crimes. There's a chance that Biden will step down if it is unlikely for him to win. Make sure that can happen.
I didn't mean to, but after the depicted exchange on the birdsite I ended up composing the following with respect to voting abstentionism. #elections #voting #nonvoting #abstentionism #anarchism
"As far as the similarity [between not voting and not going to work] goes, I don't think the best version of the argument is that individuals voting or not voting (or going to work) de/legitimizes the political (or economic) system. The compelling version of the argument, I think, needs to be that mass non/participation is what has a de/legitimizing effect. The element of mass is what marks the difference with respect to compulsion (it's harder to read non-voting as a deliberative action, e.g.). That's part of what makes the analogy you offered not so strong to me. Anyway, the issue with contemporary abstentionism is that it's individual & largely passive, an ethical, rather than a strategic stance, a weakness of much apparent leftism (which it appears we agree about). The compelling theory of legitimation by participation would require actual abstentionist campaigning, which does not happen, here at least. I suspect part of the reason for this is that there's a recognition among anarchists that this is not our most persuasive practice. There is, nonetheless, an argument for individual non-voting—which is that, imo, the evidence isn't especially convincing that voting for the lesser evil, or even a favorable candidate, in the long term produces better outcomes particularly regarding the viability of revolution."
erstwhile
Kevin Karhan 
julian francis park