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I'm sure Cthulhu will step down if he loses the election

And no, I'm not saying don't vote; I'm saying that there comes a point when voting isn't going to solve the problem

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  • "dOnT cArE, nOt VoTiNg"

    -hexbear

    • As a leftist I find tankies an absolute fucking disgrace. Dunno if it's the fact that I'm middle aged and Finnish, so not only do I know a lot of people who had to escape the Soviet Union but I've visited it, and I had an entire branch of my family tree genocided by the Soviets, but I just can't fathom how somebody can be so stupid as to idolize someone like fucking Stalin (or Mao or whichever incompetent psycho a particular tankie loves)

      • Well, you see, every atrocity committed by Stalin or Mao was justified and it's only CIA propaganda that makes you think otherwise. /s

      • Basically it is a cult mentality. And dogmatically placing ideology over reality. Ideology puts things in nice clean boxes that people think they find easy to understand.

        The problem with ideology is its ideal. But not real. It's why I don't dogmatically identify as anything ideologically. Pragmatically I'm anarcho communist/ true or left libertarian. It's where my beliefs lay but it doesn't define or restrict them.

        ML often just lack critical thinking skills. And are as hypocritical as the liberals they curse. But they don't do it because it's logical or based in fact. They do it to belong to a group and feel superior. Just like those they despise.

        Funny story. Couple days ago I was commenting on a thread in a community. I didn't even pay attention to where the community was hosted. (Lemmy.ml lol) But people were complaining about the West, and how it is completely fascist. And how only the West does horrible things like genocide etc. To which I replied 'Russia and China would like to have a word with you". Predictably they screeeed that they "aren't Marxist Leninist". Which I pointed out that they had been. And that their evolution was representative of ML. That any groups, given absolute power. Would rather destroyed their societies than relinquish it. Whether they're capitalist or ML. And stated that no ML government will achieve communism, or even remain socialist. Bam perma ban for "horse shoe theory" bullshit. That's when I realized the server the community was on and broke out laughing. I take the band as a badge of honor. Previously I had been banned from the same Community for a month. The made up reason for that one was genocide denial. Because I had the audacity to admonish people for conflating actual genocide with enabling genocide. I didn't deny it. But as I said. ML are whiny hypocrites. Who can't argue their own positions. And look for any petty out they can find.

      • Anyone defending genocide isnt a leftist, not a liberal, a "tankie" or anything else.

        They're a fascist who doesn't want to be called a fascist.

        It's not like people are running around using NK as a straw puppet for why democracy is bad, we all agree they're just lying about their governmental system.

      • It's pretty simple really

    • You won't according to their wishes and they won't according to yours?

      Not American, not even a western person, so my comment may not be relevant or welcome.

      I think a part of it is bitterness(against the mainstream for letting it get to the current state) and the hope that the people facing the issues instead of a temporary 4 year delay would lead to actual changes.

      Personally, I think that people should vote as long as they can safely do so.
      Tho, the presidential elections seem weird for me as I'm from a parliamentary system.

  • If the fix was already in . . . if "voting didn't matter" then conservatives wouldn't be working so hard to suppress it.

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