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existential1 wrote

I go for voting + activism without having a preachy reason for voting. It is scientifically proven that voting in the US is rigged in favor of the wealthy as is the system as a whole. However, it takes so little time to vote (pending where you live) that most often it is not an either/or decision to vote or perform some action. Voting in the US is really not that meaningful in terms of what outcomes you get, but for me it takes about 30min of reading up on the issues and picking a candidate.

Now if you want to talk about contributing to campaigns or things like that, completely different answer. Hard pass on that form activism with the exception of places where citizens can put legislation on the ballot themselves and have it passed only through their own votes.

To the argument that "people died so you could vote", which I hear a lot in my own community when I talk about how I'm not really sold on the importance of voting in our system as currently constructed, my response is "yes they did, and they had no idea how fucked it actually was. They thought we could vote our way into freedom, they were wrong." It's like going to church just because my momma and her momma went to church. Some things exist just to perpetuate themselves.

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existential1 wrote (edited )

Yeah, I'm usually quick to respond that stuff with "people also died trying to not be shipped across the atlantic ocean. How'd that work out?"

Anything is better than nothing sometimes. Not true with fossil fuels, very true with propaganda.

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