• Alexstarfire@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    I see we’re back to the same posts that came up in the 2024 election. Tying to get people to not bother voting.

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          Like the right not to be subject to genocide and apartheid? Oh wait, I forgot that you don’t consider non-white people human.

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          Are you talking about the one who said that trans people should “follow the law” when asked about their persecution? The one from the party that concluded it had to be less woke to win elections, after eating shit again? The one who has a long track record of doing nothing, at best, for trans people? The one who did nothing to defend roe v. Wade? That one? Yeah, what a great idea, surely signalling that you are completely fine with being thrown under the bus and persecuted (as long as there’s a guy with a combover opposing them) will not at all come back to bite you in the ass. How’s the poem go?

          First they put children in tiny cages, but I didnt care because it was Obama who did it and besides I’m still sitting nifty, so who gives a shit.
          Then they bombed trans people, but they were brown, so I’m still sitting pretty.
          And thats it, im hunky dory.

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      Voting, at least at a national level, doesn’t change anything, because we are not ruled by politicians but by corporations who own those politicians. At a communal level it’s different, but that’s not the topic here. What it does though, is giving legitimacy to an illegitimate system. If 80% of people would not vote, the system would quicky start to have a legitimacy crisis.

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          It doesn’t need my sense of legitimacy but if 80% of people say no it will have a problem justifying itself.

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              It would be nice to find out, seeing as how the current strategy of voting blue no matter what very observably leads to genocide and less and less differences between the two parties.

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              Is this some kind of ploy to try and find some “Voting is always good” counter point, that voting in and of itself is democracy and having that is better then nothing? Which is why you seem to be implying that the system doesn’t need to justify itself, that if the system didn’t do that it would still function and people would still participate, because it is, after all, “Democracy”?

              Quit beating around the bush and just say what you mean instead of being a coy annoyance.

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                I don’t mean anything yet. I’m trying to find out what the system being “justified” functionally does, from your perspective. From my perspective you’re being vague, I’m trying to find my way through the bush here, not beat around it.

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          A system only really functions as long as it’s subjects perceive it as legitimate. Once you lose legitimacy, people start taking action.

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      5 days ago

      Communists critique of Democrats: Somehow both not at all relevant or to be taken into account and also the reason KKKopmala lost