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ziq wrote (edited )

Yes there are US anarchists stumping for DSA candidates all the time, and shaming people for not voting. If anarchists want to vote I wish they'd just do it and keep it to themselves instead of yelling at me for not voting and calling anyone that doesn't vote a fascist.

Literally - I've seen countless anarchists be called fascists this week (by other anarchists) for being anti-voting - including an indigenous anarchist that didn't want anything to do with electing a settler to rule them. They were mercilessly attacked by dozens of settler-anarchists calling them ableist slurs, fascist scum, etc.

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arduinna wrote

If anarchists want to vote I wish they'd just do it and keep it to themselves

Exactly. I think voting's a good move, but I think making a show of it is the opposite of a good move- spend your twenty minutes voting, and shut the fuck up about it. When you make a show of it, you're not arguing for anarchist ideals but liberal ideals.

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ziq wrote (edited )

I also don't believe in lesser evilism because the entire system is designed for the 2 capitalist parties to take turns. Party A gives the people who elected them a few (largely meaningless) 'rights' while in power (while brutalizing minorities and bleeding the global south), then party B is elected and takes those rights right back (while brutalizing minorities and bleeding the global south).

And both parties take every opportunity to knock some (actually important) rights off during their respective rule in the name of fighting terrorism/drugs/immigrants/hackers/pirates/etc.

It's a nauseating charade designed to maintain the status quo. Voting just doesn't work. It affects no change. It only perpetuates the fatalistic system. It's like choosing which foot you want to be shot in.

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ziq wrote (edited )

If the lesser evil helped minorities, Obama wouldn't have deported more poc than any president ever, built concentration camps for poc, maintained offshore prisons for holding/torturing poc without trial, and used drone strikes to destroy poc countries more than any president ever.

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