• Bytemeister@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    Remider that voting in a Democracy is the bare minimum.

    Everday citizens can protest, attend town halls, call their elected officials (or their opponents) and make their views heard. You can donate money, and if you can’t donate money, you can donate time, and if you can’t donate time, you can bring attention to issues that you want to change in your everyday life.

    Voting is the most important thing you can do right now, but don’t forget the other stuff. Behind every politician is a team, behind that team are supporters, and behind the supporters are voters. You get to choose your level of engagement.

    No shame on people that only vote. That’s better than 4 out 5 other Americans this year.

    • NonconfrontationaI@lemmy.mlBannedBanned from community
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      If only you lived in a democracy, lmao.

      You know it’s been an oligarchy since your country’s founding right?

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          Of course you don’t. Libs never give a fuck, until it affects them. When its marginalized people, or foreigners, Libs are out to brunch. But when Imperialsm turns to Fascism, suddenly Libs start whining like a bunch of babies.

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            Yeah, and tankie shitnuggets can’t even rise to that level of moral duplicity on their best fucking day.

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              You think that the people who constantly support foreigners and marginalized people… don’t give a fuck about foreigners and marginalized people?

              And yet I see Libs openly throwing those groups under the bus at the first opportunity.

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              What is it that you think tankies do? Historically, tankies formed the Black Panther Party, Party for Socialism and Liberation, and the CPUSA (before they turned reformist). The tankies are regularly on the streets, donating time and money to building a better world.

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                What is it that you think tankies do?

                Annoy the living shit out of every person in their general vicinity?

                Say the dumbest shit imaginable on a consistent basis?

                Talk the talk but never walk the walk?

                Cry lots?

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                  Do you think the groups I mentioned aren’t tankies, or do you think the majority of people you would describe as tankies aren’t doing what they do?

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                    CPUSA (before they turned reformist)

                    Answered your own fucking question before you even asked it.

                    Marxist ideology doesn’t not make one a tankie. Shitposting online to convince people not to pull the levers of power in front of them does.

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                Lol, you think tankies do anything but cheer on the crushing of students with military vehicles and encourage channeling dissent into inaction and subjugation. What a bunch of fucking losers.

                Edit: if you keep reading, Cowbee here goes HAM on not just defending, but promoting the human rights and democratic process of North Korea, just so you know the level of disingenuous propaganda they are peddling.

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                  Do you think the groups I mentioned aren’t tankies, or do you think the majority of people you would describe as tankies aren’t doing what they do? Are you calling the Black Panther Party “a bunch of fucking losers,” or just those that support them?

                  Edit: for what it’s worth, absolutely everything I have said to you is fully genuine, even when you didn’t even give enough of a shit to the point that you combined 2 separate retracted stories into one brand new falsehood.

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                    Marxist ideology doesn’t not make one a tankie. Shitposting online to convince people not to pull the levers of power in front of them does.

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            “fuck you, got mine” is as American as apple pie, and not just for republicans.

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        You .ml losers really know how to crash a party. Probably why you’re not invited to any.