• SpookyBogMonster@lemmy.ml
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    1 month ago

    Join a Union? Feed the homeless? Organize your fellow tenants? Actually attend a city council meeting?

    You’re smugly confirming your allegiance to the liberal death cult, because your only conception of “political engagement” is voting in a system that is crumbling before our very eyes.

    And no, just voting wouldn’t have stopped that decay. Nothing in the world is static, and 1000 years of Obama wouldn’t stop the larger political-economic factors that are fueling fascism, political polarization, and civil unrest.

    Cool, go vote, especially if it’s in your local and state elections that no one actually pays attention to. But disengage from the rat race, and do something with an actual impact in your community.

    • Guy Ingonito@reddthat.com
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      1 month ago

      A) I am a progressive

      B) I am not even American

      You want to know why I wanted Democrats to win, even if they’re shitty neoliberals? Here is just one of mamy such examples:

      The elimination of PEPFAR funding is estimated to have resulted in over 23,000 adult deaths and more than 2,400 infant deaths within a few months, with an adult dying every 3 minutes and a child every 31 minutes due to the loss of these programs.

      You want to accuse me of being in a death cult, when the results of your ‘strategy’ of removing yourself from politics and handing the government over to fascist is an unimaginable uptick in death, desease, and destruction.

      You want things to get so bad because you have an imaginary fantasy in your head that as everything falls apart then the centrist and the people who don’t pay attention to politics will come begging you, hat in hand, to fix the mess - but there is no guarantee of that. You’re throwing vulnerable people to the wolves and sitting back and hoping things work out like you want them to.