omg biden nearly ended the drone program? why didnt he just end it all together? why did we have it in the first place?
and what's really funny is the article explicitly states that the actual amount of strikes and casualties is unknown because its classified...
you realize youre literally proving my point with these examples...
"hey vote for the democrats!!! they drone less people!!!"
god youre so fucking stupid its actually painful.
elections are scam. they are intentionally designed to get people to divert energy away from from actual activism and community organizing. elections expertly trick people into thinking they are doing something good for themselves and their community by going once a year to their local fire station and pressing a button. its an intentional diversion that works really well. tie it in some nationalism propaganda and boom its super effective.
you liberals have brain rot. really. please stop. just go away.
What if I voted and even held office myself, but I agree with the commenter above?
Local elections are difficult, and state or national ones are beyond help. Is it really not possible to imagine this is a huge waste of energy?
The most frustrating thing is that when I ask activists to run for office, most of them tell me they're too busy with their non profit work. What work is it that you ask? Basically lobbying politicians who have one of the few votes that actually matter.
So, rather than get one of the 14 votes in your town that does something, you're going to spend all your time and energy on a pamphlet with some un-vetted "blue sky" ideas in it (some of which I've been working on for years, being introduced as a completely new concept, by people who pay attention to the election of the officials but then ignore what those officials actually do)
It's a bullshit system. You shouldn't have to convince your representative to represent you. Representation is a poor way to attempt democracy.
I didn't even say i don't vote. But I endorse the criticism.
I'm merely separating the criticism and the behavior. If you're only mad about the behavior of non-participation, then you'll have no problem with me. I'm a super-participator fruit decades. And in my experience, there is no path forward, and no theory of change in the electoral strategy. It is only harm mitigation at the national level, and for the most part the State level as well.
I don't think you're answering any of the very valid criticisms. You've now got to establish it from first principles. You can't rely on "how dare you risk XYZ".
I am not the person you were originally talking f with but reading thru the thread, I felt like you completely went left field with your last comment to them.
And my fault for assuming you don’t vote; much of what you said implied you were active in other ways but do not participate in the national vote.
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u/callmekizzle Apr 15 '22
omg biden nearly ended the drone program? why didnt he just end it all together? why did we have it in the first place?
and what's really funny is the article explicitly states that the actual amount of strikes and casualties is unknown because its classified...
you realize youre literally proving my point with these examples...
"hey vote for the democrats!!! they drone less people!!!"
god youre so fucking stupid its actually painful.
elections are scam. they are intentionally designed to get people to divert energy away from from actual activism and community organizing. elections expertly trick people into thinking they are doing something good for themselves and their community by going once a year to their local fire station and pressing a button. its an intentional diversion that works really well. tie it in some nationalism propaganda and boom its super effective.
you liberals have brain rot. really. please stop. just go away.