• Octagon9561
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    11 months ago

    They’re both fascists. The issue is the whole undemocratic American voting system.

    I’m not gonna vote for Mussolini just because I think he’s better than Hitler.

    We need anti government protests on a massive scale. No amount of voting will ever “fix” this country.

    • paris@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      11 months ago

      Anti-government protests on a massive scale don’t just happen. They are organized. They are backed by mutual aid networks. It’s easy to sit back and say “I’m not voting for either option because this whole system is bad,” but have you done literally any work at all to make the system less bad? Or to build up real alternatives? If the entire American voting system is undemocratic, what have you done in your local community to make your community’s voice heard outside of that system?

      I see so many people who are terminally online say they don’t want to participate in a broken system, and exactly zero of them do any work outside of (not) voting to fix the problems they see in their community. If you’re not gonna do the bare minimum and vote every four years for the least bad option, you better be doing literally any other real-world political work. Otherwise you’re just as complicit in the system you have such an issue with.

      Tldr: the revolution is not right around the corner; you will not be saved. Do some actual political legwork instead of sitting on your ass complaining the whole time. Complaining is easy. Fixing is hard.

      • go_go_gadget@lemmy.world
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        11 months ago

        I see so many people who are terminally online say they don’t want to participate in a broken system, and exactly zero of them do any work outside of (not) voting to fix the problems they see in their community.

        I’ve never seen you do anything for your community either.