I don't vote, don't care about voting.

But if I'm truly honest, I still don't understand a lot of anti-voting arguments even after all these years.

I get anti-electoralism. But it just always seems to me like people have the most hand wavy flimsy arguments about it. About how voting is 'legitimating' the system. Even about how encouraging others to vote is super damaging, usually because it sucks up energy from better activities. like... yes after a point, but they're literally just typing on their phone for 5 minutes every so often. Are we going to pretend that actually cuts into vital direct action time (which we all have because we're so productive) lmao

What I can understand more is the idea of affect. An idea that advocating for voting, even in a minor way, somehow has an affect which douses energy for radical action.

I just don't feel it. But maybe that's just my apathetic perspective, & maybe something to do with the fact I don't actually care about voting enough to feel any negative affect first hand.

Don't you just love it when you call people out on basic principles like uh, not badjacketing people (which is, ironically, fed shit. guess we forget that part of cointelpro, nah?) and they just plug their fingers in their ears.

I swear most people over a certain follower count have lost the ability to engage in normal human interactions, as they so often present intolerable challenges to their billowing yet fragile egos.

It's so endlessly tiresome. Why does it get under my skin. I'd save myself a lot of irritation if I just built up a prejudice and stopped even trying with certain types. Totally bound to be wrong sometimes, but so what