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You Got It Kiddo (thelemmy.club)
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[-] gwl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

You can see that a system is broken and still work to fix it, they're not dichotomous.

It's not defeatism, it's realism.

And no, the answer isn't to bend over and take it, it's to get FUCKING LIVID ABOUT IT, and kick up a stink. Protests, Activism, Action, Art.

[-] JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.social 2 points 11 hours ago
[-] gwl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

Voting however, won't fix a problem caused by a broken electoral system.

When the entire system is rotten so that no matter who you vote for they won't represent the people, then the most you can do with voting it's try to keep the ABSOLUTE BASTARDS KILLING THEIR OWN PEOPLE THROUGH NEGLIGENCE(GOP) out and keep the still bastards, but not trying to kill their own citizens, just doing war against other nations in.

As example, the previous election, USA had Dems going "this is a complicated issue" about Israel/Palestine and GOP going "HELL YEAH WAR WAR WAR" about it. But none of the parties went "this genocide shouldn't receive support from the USA"

Just one side going "I won't stop selling them weapons, but won't send in troops" and the other going "I won't stop selling them weapons, and will send in troops"

[-] JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.social 1 points 2 hours ago

It's all complicated, and I'm all out of debate on this one.

My main point still stands-- that expecting individuals to solve systemic issues like this was always going to be insufficient. Cheers.

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