• squid_slime@lemm.ee
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    2 days ago

    This same argument can be used with electoral protest. It would be disingenuous to say none voting in protest materialised from nothing.

    Yes? Congratulations, you are therefore contributing to our continued democratic decline.

    I don’t see your point. If people aren’t voting then that is a symptom and not a cause. I think also a nuanced lens helps with this. People not voting isn’t binary. some knowingly protest, some are seeing the slow encroachment of inequality and just couldn’t care less which leader will continue to fuck them over.

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      2 days ago

      Not voting is absolutely both a symptom and a cause. How do you think we got here, if not by voting for the people who won the elections for the past century, and by not voting for the people who lost the elections?

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        2 days ago

        The reason the Republicans won is that billionaires are funding campaign, popularism is on the rise, class consciousness is low.