Well, when you feel the need to preface your argument with
jfc. This isn’t intended as a “fascists on both sides” argument, but
then
you really need to take a moment and look at yourself there.
The fascists want to kill me and people I care about.
Your argument is a pro-fascist accelerationist ad hominen. Accelerationism is self-defeating. We should ban accelerationist posts and comments.
It's not about what Republicans care about. It's about controlling the narrative. The popular vote is a tool that can be used to control the narrative. The popular vote is useful and so voting even if it only contributes to the popular vote is still useful. And of course if enough people don't vote then any state is in play.
The OP publicly claimed to not have voted for Harris. Reform in the meme is referring to the kind of strategies we are proposing. Look at the OP's post and comment history if you don't believe me.
I've been paying attention and OP worked tireless to sink Harris and Walz during the last election. It wasn't criticism, OP just wanted them to fail. The OP doesn't want the Democrats to improve. The OP wants us to hurry up and all die. That's the madness of accelerationism.
Americans who read the constitution.
That was done in the 50's by Republicans. Democrats lack the guts to fight back against it.
- Back in the '2000s, I was in a very famous
- AN ime (ah)
- I'm Boruto's dad the ninja (Boruto's dad)
- Boruto's dad the ninja, don't act like you don't know
- And I'm trying to hold on to my past
- It's been so long, I don't think I'm gonna last
- I guess I'll just try and make you understand
- That I'm more ninja than a man
- Or I'm more man than a ninja
- Boruto's dad
Thank you!
Those wins are we how we got gay marriage. After decades of activism queer people won rights. It took time and effort and consistently turning out for elections. And a ton of shifting the culture through the media people consumed. But the voting is a mechanical necessity to bring that result about. There's no way around it. We need to vote for the furthest left Democrats we can.
Add a /s please to jokes like that, my heart needs it
The accelerationists unironically believe that!
Harris wanted to end the war. So option 1 is better than your argument has advertised. Harris was a huge improvement over Biden in that regard. But I digress.
Every vote counts. The tighter the margins the better. We need the Democrats to do better, as in run better candidates, in order to win, but if they ever do that, there better be a leftist voting block who helped them get into office. Otherwise the Democrats will not feel safe enough to shift left.
Leftists need to be voting in record numbers to shift the Democratic Party to the left. Part of the way we do that is to vote for Democrats consistently. This should be a mechanical choice of who to vote for in the general. It's hard to do that when posts disparaging fixing the Democratic Party as impossible or so hard it's not worth trying are going unchallenged on the internet, including Lemmy.
Fixing the Democratic Party and this country will take time and a lot of work. Part of that work involves voting for Democrats.
The user who made this post made a point of proudly declaring they did not vote for president when the election rolled around last year. Because 'voters in California don't matter'. Except we do, because we contribute to the popular vote which Republicans love to use rhetorically to claim everyone else needs to shut up because they have the mandate.
Which they don't have because Trump didn't even get a majority of the voters, just the most out of any candidate. But it's still a free win to them anyway.
Democrats lost elections and leftists weren't the base consistently voting. Neoliberals and neocons and now fascists are the groups that vote regularly. Accelerationism is self-evidently getting us to fascism faster.
Lol. It's good to know people upvoted this meme because they misunderstood it.
You don't have to like Democrats. I don't.