• freagle@lemmy.ml
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    2 days ago

    Absolutely! Pay no attention to the TWO anti-communist purges in the US, with the third purge clearly being signalled by the current administration. Pay no attention to the history of political repression by the capitalists, literally sending cops to beat and murder organizers. Pay no attention to the assassinations of black leaders. Pay no attention to the publicly known disenfranchisement program started by Nixon known as the war on drugs that was explicitly targeting political blocs in the US, and of course pay no attention to the fact that after it became public knowledge not a single politician worked to reverse the impacts on democracy.

    You can vote for whatever you want! Unless we say you can’t.

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      All of that shit happened before I was born. All I can tell you is I never wanted you or any other leftist to be subservient to anyone. As far as I’m concerned you can think and vote however the hell you want. I can’t speak to what other people want, I don’t control other people.

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            Sorry, you’re going to be continuously confronted with the fact that just because things happened before you were born doesn’t mean they aren’t here in the present constraining our options. It’s not enough to say that we can vote for whoever we want after two political purges because they were before your time. It’s not enough to say that we can say whatever we want after they killed the black radical leaders because it was before your time. It’s just not good enough. Do better.