• karashta@piefed.social
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    If you think nothing has ever changed by voting people into office, you’re being purposefully blind to things in history.

    Just because capitalism hasn’t been overthrown by voting doesn’t mean nothing has changed ever because of it. You are literally watching, in real time, the effects of people’s voting in the form of Trump’s changes to the government.

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      I’m watching capitalism turn into late stage capitalism, something it was naturally going to do regardless of voters - as it eats itself alive and the illusion of reform and granted freedoms are stripped away.

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              Which lead to them maintaining hegemony and us at their whim for our “rights” being ripped away at a moments notice.

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                Them? You mean the ones who were doing all that revolting that you so idolize? Now, I’ll be the first to admit that our democracy isn’t perfect - far from it. But if you truly believe in what you’re espousing, why aren’t you out there starting the revolution? What are you doing to change things? What are you doing that is so much better than democracy? All I see is talk. And trying to get people to not vote, which is exactly the kind of talk that mysteriously crops up whenever there’s an important election on the horizon. Who benefits from people not voting? That’s a question you might want to give some serious thought to.