And my entire point is that you came into a thread about people who say “don’t vote”, tried to tell everyone “voting isn’t enough”, and justifiably got told “hey, stfu, nobody is saying voting alone is enough, but you still have to fucking vote”.
Like, I understand everything you’re saying and I don’t even disagree but you picked the wrong time and place to get annoyed with people who were venting their frustrations over a specific type of person that says “don’t vote, it’s ethically unjustifiable”.
I brought it here because I feel that the discussion misses the point and redirects anger away from the systems and structures that actually cause it onto other people in the same position as them. It is important that people understand what is happening or this and similar lines of divide and conquer (racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, you name it) are going to keep recurring. You might all be good eggs in every other regard, I have no reason to doubt that you are, but if you see how it can happen to you, you start to understand how it happens to others in worse ways. Understanding something is the first step in remedying it.
I definitely can see how it might just seem irrelevant from your perspective though, so that’s absolutely fair enough.
And I’m trying to tell you that most of us understand it already, and are still frustrated with the people trying to convince everyone not to vote as some kind of valid form of protest.
Your approach antagonizes your allies. Accelerationists who want people not to vote are not your allies and they’re not mine. They are overwhelmingly people in positions of privilege who can afford to watch everything burn down because they aren’t the ones who will be hurt by it. That’s not “people like you and me”. That’s selfish people with an axe to grind
And my entire point is that you came into a thread about people who say “don’t vote”, tried to tell everyone “voting isn’t enough”, and justifiably got told “hey, stfu, nobody is saying voting alone is enough, but you still have to fucking vote”.
Like, I understand everything you’re saying and I don’t even disagree but you picked the wrong time and place to get annoyed with people who were venting their frustrations over a specific type of person that says “don’t vote, it’s ethically unjustifiable”.
I brought it here because I feel that the discussion misses the point and redirects anger away from the systems and structures that actually cause it onto other people in the same position as them. It is important that people understand what is happening or this and similar lines of divide and conquer (racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, you name it) are going to keep recurring. You might all be good eggs in every other regard, I have no reason to doubt that you are, but if you see how it can happen to you, you start to understand how it happens to others in worse ways. Understanding something is the first step in remedying it.
I definitely can see how it might just seem irrelevant from your perspective though, so that’s absolutely fair enough.
And I’m trying to tell you that most of us understand it already, and are still frustrated with the people trying to convince everyone not to vote as some kind of valid form of protest.
Your approach antagonizes your allies. Accelerationists who want people not to vote are not your allies and they’re not mine. They are overwhelmingly people in positions of privilege who can afford to watch everything burn down because they aren’t the ones who will be hurt by it. That’s not “people like you and me”. That’s selfish people with an axe to grind
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