Post by tumblr user "lizardsfromspace": "People still doing 'do you think voting can fix this' memes when the answer to the question 'when did voting last end an authoritarian regime' is 'two days ago'"
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[–] 1 point 1 day ago (2 children)

You are like a child looking at a dinner table, declaring the food is there because you put on the tablecloth

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  • [–] 0 points 16 hours ago (1 child)

    Explain how I'm wrong then. The causal chain was action --> voting --> results; action is important as one of the causes of voting, but if they only did direct action and did not vote, they would not have seen results. Is this incorrect?

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  • [–] 2 points 13 hours ago

    The action led to the government having to accede to demands. That the government is elected is not the reason it felt the need to accede to the demands. Without voting the results would still happen. Without action there would be no results.

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