• Leate_Wonceslace@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    7 months ago

    About 2 weeks ago (it feels like less, but that’s what my history says) there was a deluge of them in a few meme communities that I happen to frequent, notably on blahaj 196.

    accurate, but shitty

    Please explain. Edit: oh, do you mean they won’t vote because they can’t vote in a communist?

    • bl_r@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      7 months ago

      The accuracy comes from the fact that in the american system, there is not, and won’t be, a candidate or hopeful that can have an impact to bring america in a socialistic direction, or for the more electoral MLs, there is no communist/socialist candidate. Either way, most people on the far left, anarchist, communist, etc, also recognize that if there is a person of their values who gets into power, odds are they will either be milquetoast in the end and coopt the movement. Or if things are particularly bad, there will be a conflict due to such a candidate winning.

      I think those people are silly. They are too far-sighted to consider the local scale of elections and the conditions that come from them, even though I generally agree with the critiques of the electoral system