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minus-squareGeth@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up9arrow-down17·edit-210 hours agoRioting = participatory democracy Voting for status quo defined by elite = not actual democracy
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minus-squareGeth@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up7arrow-down1·7 hours agoI’m not trying to convince you to not vote, but the system is rigged and I’m trying to convince you to riot.
minus-squareSCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down2·edit-27 hours agoThat’s fair and entirely accurate. Edit: everybody should still vote though. Do both! Voting is easy, rioting is less easy, but is directly effective.
minus-squarepsycholocomotor_no2@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-21 hour agoNo it isn’t, it’s counter effective because it helps maintain the liberal parties as the farthest left conceivable parties. If we instead convinced people to become communists instead of uselessly voting for liberals we would have more actual communists.
minus-squareNonconfrontationaI@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down1·2 hours ago“Perpetuate the system of fascist capitalist pedophile elites! But also fight against it!”
Rioting = participatory democracy
Voting for status quo defined by elite = not actual democracy
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I’m not trying to convince you to not vote, but the system is rigged and I’m trying to convince you to riot.
That’s fair and entirely accurate.
Edit: everybody should still vote though. Do both! Voting is easy, rioting is less easy, but is directly effective.
No it isn’t, it’s counter effective because it helps maintain the liberal parties as the farthest left conceivable parties.
If we instead convinced people to become communists instead of uselessly voting for liberals we would have more actual communists.
“Perpetuate the system of fascist capitalist pedophile elites! But also fight against it!”