Voting sucks but it’s survival

Hard disagree. The data show clearly that willful lack of engagement with the electoral system has caused a measurable increase harm. Not the only tool that one should be using, nor the most impactful, but it is an important tool because letting the oppressor win unopposed only helps the oppressor.

Eh, the essay makes good points about why electoralism is not going to bring about a just society but it paves over all the ways that electoralism can make things worse with "we can just do mutual aid".

For a lot of people in a lot of places casting a vote is low effort, and realistically the only intervention they'll ever actually participate in while the barrier to entry is still so high due to the left being so utterly defeated. You can absolutely limit the power of "moderate" conservatives and liberals who tend to be the actual powerbase that successful facist takeovers of governments use. As well as having their own horrible goals.

It's not really an either-or thing and the jackbooted thugs that are going to black bag you aren't going to be like "well the ballot was down 15% (wildly optimistic) this year so uhhh I don't think these orders are legitimate".

We need numbers, practiced organisers, and institutions before accelerationism is at all advisable, if it even ever is. Even if your wildest pipe dreams about revolution broke out tomorrow we would lose right now, we just don't have the numbers, skills and tactics yet.

Ok, you can dogpile me now.

I'm an anti-electorialist but I still vote.

National races and US congress votes are like pissing into the ocean, it doesn't do shit. I vote in local elections to keep assholes from running my city. Do I think it changes anything? Probably not, but I just sort of vote in local elections for my disenfranchised comrades who can't