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So for fucks sake pick the one that's slower at it so you have more time to do something about it. It's not like voting locks you out of any other actions.
It's no use asking these people to do any kind of direct action. They think abstaining once every four years will bring an end to capitalism. They'll never attend a protest or vote in a primary, much less pick up a gun for the revolution.
Or, vote for something other than going to the bad place?
Someone offers you two pills, you don't have to take either. You can make your own, and seek other options.
Yeah, but if you say "I don't care, I have absolutely no preference", then when kids get blown up in Iran it becomes your fault.
Yeah. Don't say that. Who's advocating for that? Did you think I was advocating for that??
Well, there's this thing called voting literacy, and the thing is, if your voting literacy is poor, you can say things you don't intend to say. So yes, you did say "I don't care, I have absolutely no preference". And it's your responsibility to learn enough mathematics to be able to say what you mean. I'm not gonna treat you like a baby and find the intended meaning in what you say, you have to grow up and say what you mean.
But Americans aren’t doing anything about it except voting.
The ones who are going to do more are already doing more, and both-sidesing the ones who aren't is just going to make them do even less. Just let them help with slowing the descent down a bit, that's the most they're going to do anyway. It buys time for the ones who are doing something to do something.
Or maybe the accelerationists are right, make the nail rusty enough, fast enough, get the frog realising it has to jump out or it'll be boiled.
... if that's not too much metaphor mixing.
Solution space may be elsewhere.
Maybe the accelerationists are right, but then maybe they aren't and that's a whole lot of suffering and collateral damage for nothing.
YUP!
I hate this take, because it ignores the reality that this isn't Europe and that you can't even get sick in this country without health insurance with risking homelessness, let alone any massive coordinated action.
Like around here they're always posting pictures of protests and you look at the people at the protests and it's all retirees and college kids. Why? Because everyone else is at fucking work because if they're not at work they miss a mortgage/rent payment and end up living in their car. The majority of US states have at will employment laws meaning they can and will fire you with no notice or even need to provide justification beyond the performative "this termination not due to you being a member of a legally protected class".
Wage slaves are still slaves, and telling people today that their inaction means they're complicit is no different then going back in time 200 years and telling the slaves on the plantations that they're just as responsible for their bondage as the people that put them in chains. Fuck that nonsense.