Post #3801075
2026-07-14 05:12 UTC
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@gary_host_laptop@lemmy.ml 2026-07-14 13:34
you can’t even name one, lmao. pathetic bluemaga. voting is bread and circus bro, keep telling yourself that you can eventually vote shit out with your wallet. meanwhile, we in the third world keep getting FUCKED by either of any possible party that gets elected in the bürgerreich because all of them represent the international bourgeoisie.
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@QinShiHuangsShlong@lemmy.ml 2026-07-14 13:43
Nearly everything you cite is a result of the elected officials in power. Not a single thing I cited did came into existence because people voted for them. They arose because the economic base required a particular political, legal and ideological superstructure to reproduce the prevailing class relations. Their abolition was likewise not the product of voting, but of massive class struggle outside the system: militant trade unions, abolitionists, suffragettes, the NAACP, the Black Panthers, the IRA, the ANC (Umkhonto weSizwe), and countless other organised movements that made the existing conditions impossible to maintain. Are you under the impression that the only way things happen is by direct vote on the issue? No. What I am “under the impression of” is that voting under liberal democracy has not once provided a real avenue for systemic change. Using voting status as a gauge of whose political views should be taken seriously is therefore idiotic.