"Well, I also was good at finding faults in anyone who were trying to improve some things and attack them for not improving all things."
"Have you considered that it just wasn't thrilling enough for me to vote against literal fascism?"
I'm still not sure what was the reason not to vote the lesser of two weevils here. Some hope that if you show Democrats by not voting them they'll do the things those people have been calling for? I'd fear they'll just think of those people as unreliable voters and will just try to get the votes from those who do vote.
Pretty risky move in any case, with Trump being the other alternative.
Absolutely hate the people who would sell out my child’s future over some holy war in the desert held by idiots—I mean religious zealots—terrorizing each other. They’re both wrong, don’t sell us out over it.
Idk, that seems like a pretty shit take to me. It's not the voting choice I made, but I can see where people are coming from. It's not just the US selling arms to hostile occupiers, it's running around with the Cheney's and the general abandonment of the working and middle class.
They’re both wrong
Those NICU babies bombed by the IDF shouldn't have joined Hamas.
Did they pay you extra for this hot take, hasbara?
not each other. western countries esp the us are the ones provoking and arming them for decades. not just in the middle east either.
If you want something more hands on, work on local races this year. They are how we can fight back
Elections are run at the state level in the US. Even for federal offices
Many states have elections this year even despise it being an off year
There are special elections today in Virginia thay will determine who controls the state legislature. If dems remain control, they can block a lot of the Republicans governors attempts to disenfranchise
There are special elections in Minnesota on Jan 28th to determine control of one house of the state legislature
There is an election that will determine control of the Wisconsin state supreme court on April 1st. The more recent Progressive control has lead to Wisconsin getting fair maps as the gerrymandered maps were overturned. We are going to want to keep it that way and build further
There are special elections for various US house members like to replace Matt Gatez on April 1st. Should we win any suprise flips, it will be even harder for Republicans to get things through congresss with their already tight 3 seat majority
And so on
Here's a frequently updated spreadsheet with various at home volunteering options
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1jxO8g7q9VO3ZMAABcrvR7PMyX4Yl6dgIYhD3eRTKk1M/htmlview
EDIT: also on another note, consider running for election yourself. There are various small local positions around you that often go uncontested. Here's one group that helps progressives run for local office https://runforsomething.net/
Just to add onto this, don't think that just because you live in a deep red or deep blue area, you can't mobilize and make a serious difference. Most incumbents get by due to public indifference. Replacing members of both parties in entrenched areas with progressives is possible, but those progressives need help. Any time you can give is always appreciated!
And to add another point, people en masse are followers. They vote the way they are told. At some point, progressives got the idea that it is impolite to tell people how to vote. That means the loudest voices are the most impolite. That's a breeding ground for fascists and charletains. Speak up, challenge stupidity and lies, and make bigots feel bad again.
We get to pick between a pro landlord, pro oligarchs dem or a milquetoast horrific status quo dem for mayor next year.
Will fighting for one of them to win help anything?
If you are looking for inspiration, we @[email protected] just finished a 1.5 hour session with lawyers from NLG, historians, and activists to help service members understand their rights and responsibilities when it comes to illegal orders potentially being issued by this administration.
We just uploaded it to youtube and its available here:
"But daddy, mommy said all you did was circle jerk with strangers online".
"Honey, you can't circle jerk online. That's why daddy has all his bros come over on Thursdays."
Hey now, give me credit:
I also texted them to conservative family members from burner numbers!
bOtH pArTiEs ArE tHe SaMe LoL aMiRiTe WhY bOtHeR vOTiNg sLeEpY jOe memes!
Then I did nothing about it between presidential elections. Nothing. Did not lift a single goddamned finger. Four years later, I demand the party cater to me, Me, ME. An utterly useless deadweight. And smug about it.Well, it would be happier if at least one side catered to voters as opposed to billionaires.
That said, it's not the fault of only Harris and her campaign, it's the Democratic leadership from the past 20 years that allowed it to get this bad.
bOtH pArTiEs ArE tHe SaMe LoL aMiRiTe
The Daddy Party comes home drunk from the party and beats you with his belt.
The Mommy Party cries in the corner, telling you there's nothing she can do because you didn't support her enough.
Then I did nothing about it between presidential elections.
People blink in and out of existence between elections. Nobody actually exists when they aren't voting.
Nobody organized with their coworkers to form unions. Nobody carried for relatives that had lost work or gotten sick from the pandemic. Nobody provided care for young children or volunteered to help impoverished neighbors or mucked out homes after devastating hurricanes. Nobody went to school to get advanced degrees in fields necessary for building out green energy or modern transit or dense housing or criminal justice.
Nobody. Did. Anything.
Four years later, I demand the party cater to me, Me, ME.
When you think about it, denouncing genocide is an entirely selfish act.
Smug is such a perfect word for all the morons that decided not to vote, because Harris wasn't able to fix a 8 decade long problem from the vice president's desk.
Smug and stupid, because a lot of the Palestine crap posted was done by bots and saboteurs to fracture the left, and oh boy did it work.
Have you noticed how no-one is screeching about Palestine since the election?...........
morons that decided not to vote
The only people I see on this board are people who held their noses and voted while complaining nobody else voted but them.
The non-voters aren't on social media telling you they aren't going to vote. They're simply checking out entirely.
The only people who hear you are the ones that did vote for the shitty compromise candidate and are now getting abuse from you because they didn't vote hard enough.
No, people against genocide are not bots, and liberals have not ever been the left. You people love genocide until it might affect you, you're not the left.
And just because you were banned from spaces because you were pro genocide, doesn't mean anyone has stopped talking about Palestine.
I guess you don't listen to Democracy Now. They've been reporting on Palestine every day since the election. The Ralph Nader Radio Hour has been talking about it since the election, too.
Yep. It was pretty wild that some people actually fell for the Palestine argument. That was only really an issue for a very small minority of the left. Most average Americans couldn’t find it on a map, much less a reason to give a shit about it.
Ultimately, it wasn’t even necessary to try and fracture the left with the Palestine argument. It was already fractured enough that she never stood a chance.
Even in a fairly normal race, it’s silly to think voters would care more about people half a world away, rather than the issues they’re dealing with themselves like the high cost of living, housing shortages, etc.
“Fucking legend”
I like how both sides are constantly complaining about the erosion of free society and democracy but both sides also support questionable legislation.
One side is demonstrably worse in literally every political action/debate. I'm no Democrat but this both sides stuff has to stop if we're ever going to make progress.
Storming buildings isn't wrong to do I hear. Just saying...
Funny, but SO many of those fuckers are either in prison or are facing federal charges still. Like, more than 1200 of them. And that number will only increase.
And Trump is president of the United States of America.
The 2 tiered justice system proven to have no clothes, over and over. Streamed in real time and in high definition. Not that there ever was a time it was otherwise.
Its just that no one even bothers with the illusion anymore. Why would they? What are you going to do about it... vote republican?
Even those sleeping the "American Dream" feel these slaps to the face.
The revolution will not be hosted on the fediverse.
You seriously think it's on reddit or Twitter???
Just kidding, join your local protest and mutual aid group! See you on the street!
Nostr obviously
"Not have you, you're welcome"
Totally legit response in regards to resource exhaustion and climate change, but IMO not regarding the degradation of democracy. In a larger scale this could easily lead to a demographic shift towards regressive political views.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not gonna put into a kid into this world, especially not for reasons of ideological puppeteering, but to conclude my too serious take on the meme and your comment, I do not quite see how they are related.
Naw, it's gonna be "What did you do during the genocide in Gaza?"
Hey I was more aware of it than the last three (that I know of) in my lifetime.
Bruh should I travel my gay white ass to Palestine and stand in front of a Merkava tank?
You can
- Join the BDS movement
- Donate to groups like A Jewish Voice for Peace
- Protest in your home country, if your home country is supporting Israel
- Lobby your politicians
when things get much worse for people, they might have no choice but to try something else
We’re friends :’-)
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That would be me if I had children
If you've never received thousands of downvotes for stating a boring position, are you even alive?
The kids of parents who actually tried to fight to give them a decent future and world to live in:
"My parents died in prison. They committed suicide in their cells by shooting themselves in the back of their heads somehow."
They should've just memed like the rest of us.
Fighting the good fight 🫡
If you really want to help make things better: don't focus on elections (that includes more local ones).
Real political power doesn't come from the ballot box, but from political organizing.
"But I did refuse to vote, cuz that would just be perpetuating a broken system that doesn't give us any good choices."
"Oh... how's the system doing now?"
"Still broken."
"And the choices?"
"Still no good."
"So, it worked?"
"Not really, but I did get to just sit on my ass and post memes."I mean, you do that whether you vote or not. But when you try to tell people that they have to do more than vote, they don't like it.
“But I voted every 4 years for decades and it only got worse. Eventually I realised doing the same thing was never going to get a different result, especially when my voice was taken for granted”
“Did voting help”
“No, but I got to feel good for myself like I was on the winning team”
"I said a the name of an assassin several times."
Too close to home
Lol 😅
As an aside, I like how the intention of the original poster aged like milk. No one sees "The Great War" as great by those who survived it and by the future. It is not talked about positively in the same way as Napoleonic wars or the Second World War (except if you were an Axis soldier or civilian victim of war crimes of course).
Stop glorifying wars they all suck
This is the best definition of war I've heard:
Big wigs know each other and can't get along. Then they send people who don't know each other to kill each other. Big wigs lives are never under threat.
Not trying to glorify wars, but what I'm saying is that some wars have a purpose or cause at least. Like the Napoleonic wars is about new type of government under new found liberal values versus the old system of absolute monarchy that values stability and familiarity. The current war in Ukraine is about stopping imperialism and the wanton violation of international rule (there isn't technically any rule because international laws are non-binding but that is a different topic I won't delve for now).
