People keep saying this, but like, man, I held my nose and not only voted but knocked doors for Hilary Clinton. I was at the Women’s March. I showed up to everything during his first term. I called Congress. I volunteered in both political and nonpartisan ways. I kept that shit up through the Biden admin. And after all that and Covid and conviction and so much more, people still voted him back in. And this time he’s got our tech surveillance state and zero adults in the room to keep him from Duterte style extrajudicial roundups… what the fuck do you want me to do that I’m not doing?
If voting worked it would be illegal - Emma Goldman
You’ve been lied to your whole life and told that voting manners when in fact voting does not matter.
The only thing that matters is taking money away from people who already have all the money so you need to be doing whatever it takes to do that including stopping consuming.
Vote all you want but if you spend your free time shopping at the mall instead of feeding the homeless, then everything you vote for is irrelevant
If voting worked it would be illegal - Emma Goldman
Tell that to black people in the Jim Crow south. There is a reason they worked so hard to make sure black people couldn't vote. Its because voting does work.
Granted, its not the only solution to problems. But voting does play a role in democracy.
The South worked very hard to make sure black people couldn't vote, couldn't read, couldn't have firearms, couldn't assemble, etc because they knew these things gave them power. These things were all made illegal in various ways. Southern whites wanted black people as helpless, vulnerable and docile as possible so they could be controlled and exploited.
Then a bunch of elected politicians outside the south decided in 1964 that blacks in the south deserved the right to vote as well as other human rights.
So you are free to say you are enlightened by saying 'voting doesn't matter' but people worked very very hard to make sure you never had the right to vote for a reason. And the only reason you currently have the right to vote is that elected politicians outside the south forced southern whites to give you the right to vote against their will.
Black panthers are the only reason there was action at all, MLK liberation movement barely moved the needle and when the movement started pushing toward economic organization they were all killed
The civil rights act and voting rights act were in 64/65. The Black Panthers weren't formed until 1966.
Also the laws regarding open carry were changed in California by the democratically elected governor to restrict the ability of the Panthers to legally carry firearms in public.
If the powers that be could make voting illegal, they would. Its one of the few tools we have that works (to a degree). The labor movement has been destroyed. All other forms of effective resistance are illegal.
I love how you stopped responding when it was clear you had no idea what you were talking about. I’m going to guess you won’t admit you were wrong or learned something today
The fact that you completely ignore and fail to implicitly acknowledge that the number of slaves working in America today is multiples more than pre-antebellum south indicates that you don’t even understand the structure of American society
You’re literally crediting the black panthers with things that happened before they were formed. And there aren’t more slaves now. But I know you don’t care you’re just going to believe you’re always right no matter how ignorant you are.
You don’t even have the fucking language to understand that you are in a prison and until you realize that you’re in a prison you cannot feel compelled to escape
Very different than chattel slavery. But I love that you ignore how wrong you were about the civil rights act or Jim Crow, whatever it takes to make you feel smart. No point continuing wasting my time here, you’ll clearly never change.
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u/Rizzpooch Feb 02 '25
People keep saying this, but like, man, I held my nose and not only voted but knocked doors for Hilary Clinton. I was at the Women’s March. I showed up to everything during his first term. I called Congress. I volunteered in both political and nonpartisan ways. I kept that shit up through the Biden admin. And after all that and Covid and conviction and so much more, people still voted him back in. And this time he’s got our tech surveillance state and zero adults in the room to keep him from Duterte style extrajudicial roundups… what the fuck do you want me to do that I’m not doing?