Sorry, a couple of notes and I’m out of your hair. The election cycle is not 1459 days unless you’re not voting; I’ve never called myself an accelerationist nor said I don’t vote for democrats down the ballot; don’t co-opt people who are dying on the streets if you are staying inside.
My argument, were anyone interested in hearing it rather than themselves, would be that there is nothing magical about voting, which is just one of many forms of representation. Acting as though you have done the long hard work of democracy because you turn in a ballot every once in a while for local representatives you do not know and will never pressure is sad. You care more about institutional longevity than human suffering; you think democracy is regular elections not self governance. You will happily vote for the lesser of two evils because you don’t like how much work it would take to do even better than the options you are spoon fed by billionaires who would kill your neighbors if it improved the S&P by half a point. England is undermining trial by jury with secret judicial rulings. Guantanamo Bay still holds human beings “outside the law.” All across the “civilized” world, protests against this grotesque misrepresentation of the public will are subject to approval. Where is your evidence that you can vote this away? You hold back progress with this idea that you will be handed back your power if you are patient enough.
I don’t. Do you think they’ll go away if you vote?
if you voted for [Democrat] would [bad thing] still happen in [foreign place]
Yeah obviously. Do you understand how many different Democrat administrations have funded various genocides, dictatorships, and hostile takeovers of self governing people
Okay. If I’m reading this right, if I correctly guess which of the candidates supports genocide the least for the next couple of decades, eventually, that will save democracy. I will put everything else on the back burner and get right on that.
Please direct me to the nearest “vote right now” station
I do not consider a teenager fresh to current events disagreeing with me on politics as much of a gotcha moment. If you’re older than I’ve guessed you should consider learning more before you try to transition into educating. If every single citizen of the united states who still has the right to vote casts a ballot for Kamala Harris, Palestine still burns, and Palantir still revolutionizes killing and incarcerating people elsewhere. But maybe there’s still pride at Target. Is that what you mean by viable?
Harris has never even lied and pretended she is against the surveillance state or the military industrial complex. Did you want people to vote for Jill Stein? Write in Bernie during the primaries? You can vote for mask off fascism or you can vote for a respectable statesman who keeps the killing of brown people a bit quieter. How is that a viable option. Because you feel better stateside? Do you go on YouTube and comment on old Obama speeches about how you miss having a President who could speak in full sentences while he oversaw a campaign of mass terror, bailed out (FUNDED) global financial leeches, and did nothing to slow the consolidation of billionaire backed media and tech conglomerates because at the end of the day, he believes in this shit too?
You haven’t said anything.