Post #539845

2026-03-05 15:48 UTC

Vote in the primaries all you want Case in point. This snippet of your language shows that elections are not pure enough and you will not be showing up to help us on this front for a short term relief. Then you wonder why you get no representation at the table when you explicitly said you don’t want to be heard.

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@Cowbee@lemmy.ml 2026-03-05 15:55

No? My point on elections is that they do not bring short or long-term relief, because candidates are pre-filtered so as to not challenge the status quo. It has nothing to do with purity, and is entirely due to the practical assessment that elections under capitalism cannot answer capitalism’s systemic problems. I don’t ever wonder why Marxists don’t have electoral representation, we’ve known why for centuries, and it’s because the ruling class fears communists above all else. Just look at the Epstein files, and read about how they refer to the PRC and socialist leaders like Xi Jinping. It’s utter disdain and fear. Who is “us?” What is your strategy? Is it to vote for whichever pre-filtered candidate is most progressive, and then watch as this candidate loses to the more well-funded pre-filtered establishment candidate? What then? If the only ladders allowed to be available electorally are 4-8 feet tall and you need to change a bulb 20 feet in the air, how do you make progress?

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@BrainInABox@lemmy.ml 2026-03-06 11:20

Just making up claims Cowbee never made because you can’t actually argue against him

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