If only Americans didn’t hate LGBT and minorities so much they might be actually be able to progress instead of continuing the American tradition of two steps forward one step back.

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    Pretty sure the goal isn’t doing nothing, but discouraging others from doing anything. Assuming a goal is in place at all.

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      Have you considered political activities besides just voting? Like I’m a anarchist and I still plan to vote, I’m just gonna vote for the communists because they actually oppose the genocide and continue my normal organizing activities.

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            Oh, no, you’re excused. Absolutely engage with the system outside of elections as much as you can. I thank you for your civil service.

            But for all that is still decent in the world, go vote for a democrat every chance you get while you’re doing that. If you’re spoiling your vote AND advocating falsehoods about the political positions of the only non-fascist party running with any chance of winning, then you’re doing the exact opposite of helping, you are a hostile actor furthering the cause of fascism through either malice or negligence. And frankly, this deep into this thing I do not care much about the difference.

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              There’s plenty of Democrats running even at the local level at least around me who are just low key Republicans, it’s just more politically convenient to pose as a progressive than run as a frothing at the mouth Republican. The reason I push back is because I see people like that who are unworthy of my support

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                Do they vote along party lines? Hell, do they vote along party lines more often than not?

                Because I genuinely don’t care about anything else at this point. I’ll take a “low key Republican” supportive of democracy with a even vaguely acceptable voting record over an online communist campaigning for Trump. Any day.

                Let me put it on extremely online bougie-commie terms: what you’re doing here? In the context of a surging fascist party? That’s class treason.

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                  Actually, engaging with the electoral system and not voting for the communist running for government is the class traitor activity

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                    Not with the fascists at the gate, my performatively disingenuous political tadpole. Actual anarchists, when faced with that dychotomy went to actual war alongside liberals, communists and other leftists they very profoundly disliked to stop them taking over. More than once. You’re just shilling for a toupeed, even dumber version of Mussolini instead. Again, I don’t know if it’s ignorance or malice, but I have zero tolerance for either under the circumstances.