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Banned from LateStageCapitalism@lemmy.world for promoting voter turnout in tandem with other activism. (slrpnk.net)

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by Murse@slrpnk.net to c/yepowertrippinbastards@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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The power trip / ban doesn't bother me, but the misinformation does. They present as leftist, but flare up around US elections discouraging voter turnout via 'bOtH siDeS' garbage. that only ever elevates shit like MAGA.

In the linked thread, OP promotes rioting while discouraging voter turnout. My comments agreed with activism like riots, but pointed out that it's not an either-or thing. You can riot -and- vote; and even if you don't have it in you to riot, still do vote.

Banned.

You can see my removed comment quoted in the post after mine.

This 'blue MAGA' tankie shit is somehow worse than the loud-and-clear MAGA shit over on Reddit - at least those neonazis were honest about who they were.

Anywho, YSK. Spaces like r/conservative were clearly labeled and easy to avoid; LateStageCapitalism@lemmy.world presents as a cause worth rallying around, but only until you peel up the veneer and see that they're the same fucking thing.

Also please vote. In addition to whatever flavor of activism tickles your fancy.

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[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 6 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Big two I fought for were for gay marriage and health care. Gay marriage was not legal when I was growing up and we had no state sponsored healthcare. Right now we have both of those thanks to people getting out and making their voices heard. Everyone rallied behind those two things and they happened.

Now they are at risk because people have become complacent. Sinicism and complacency go hand in hand. You do that and things like Roe get repealed, and now I'm worried we'll backslide on these issues because people don't care anymore.

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[–] davel@lemmy.ml 1 point 1 day ago

Big two I fought for were for gay marriage and health care.

Gay marriage doesn’t threaten the bourgeoisie, so it was achievable within a bourgeois democracy. Spreading RomneyCare to most—but not all—states also wasn’t a threat. Private health insurance companies, pharmaceutical companies, etc. are still raking in billions.

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[–] NonconfrontationaI@lemmy.ml -1 points 1 week ago (2 children)

And yet the death and destruction done by your country continues to increase. Fossil fuel production continues to increase.

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[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 4 points 1 week ago (1 child)

Okay "Nonconfrontational" you're obviously just wanting to stir something up, and I'm not going to give you what you want. Go find someone else.

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[–] NonconfrontationaI@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 week ago

Listen I'm glad you got your human rights recognized but do you not think the lives of tens of thousands of brown children are worth rioting in the streets until change is made? Or is it only now that colonialism abroad has become fascism at home that you give a fuck?

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