I'm one of those Americans [who is] really sick and tired of the narrative that we're constantly told: That we're supposed to hate some country that's overseas—that maybe we've never been to.

We don't know anything about that country, but we're told that they're the greatest threat to our freedoms and our democracy, and that we have to go to war with them.

I've never seen a Houthi—or however you pronounce it—I don't even know what they look like! I haven't seen them back home in The Bronx where I live; I haven't seen them in Washington D.C., and I keep saying: How is this a threat to everyday Americans?

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[–] cosecantphi@hexbear.net 46 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Ok, we started with not voting makes you as bad as the literal fascists.

Now we're at voting doesn't materially effect the outcome in the vast majority of cases, but you're still as bad as the fascists for not participating in the American civil religion by personally legitimizing our deeply undemocratic institutions with a vote that is essentially an endorsement of further neoliberal policy that would gladly see many of us dead or enslaved.

Is politics just like a sports thing to you or something? Where you show up to support your team every couple years? Why should I care if the Democrats or Republicans are in office if they are both committing genocide, if they both support policy that is a direct threat to the lives and livelihoods of myself and people I care about? I don't want to be complicit in that, but apparently I'm as bad as the fascists for not voting for actual fascists in sham elections?

Voter opinion doesn't correlate to policy in literally any study I've ever seen of the electorate in this genocidal farce of a settler-slaver colony. The problem is very clearly not a lack of voter participation, but a lack of actual, functioning democratic institutions. You're never gonna vote your way out of this situation because the capitalists built the entire system to prevent you from doing exactly that.

When you make a big show of voting blue no matter what, you tell the Democrats they don't need to worry about your interests because they have your vote regardless. Why the fuck would you do that?