For the record, I’m still mad about the “The Case For Not Voting” event by Firestorm Books (they’re on kolektiva.social, based in not-a-solid-blue-state NC), in September 2024. https://firestorm.coop/events/3265-the-case-for-not-voting.html

I hope they’re happy about their progressive or anarchist or whatever “values” and “the future of democracy hangs in the balance, we're told” attitude, seeing how things are going in Gaza, Ukraine, Venezuela, Greenland, etc. in 2026.

@agnes I feel like these sorts of people are contrarian trolls who live too much online.

But I was thinking something adjacent to this the other day when I saw an article about how well Green Parties are doing internationally, and lamenting that the US Greens are so ineffectual. Their leaders echo Russian talking points and I usually only hear them talk about antiwar stuff (i.e., the thing that is easy to declare) rather than how they might practically impliment their platform.