• agitatedpotato@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 year ago

    so long as you don’t examine your own inaction too closely.

    Re-read you own comment, not for any argument or point I’m making, but just for your own benefit, you could learn from yourself once you realize you’re not above your own advice. If you wanna mock someone else’s effort, best be sure you’re actually doing something meaningful, because voting is not much harder than abstaining in protest. Both are interactions with the electoral system and both only impact the electoral system.

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      1 year ago

      I am literally advocating for civic participation in the system as a means of change, and I engage in civic participation in the system.

      They are literally advocating for civil war as a means of change, but refuse to engage in any behavior that would contribute to that goal.

      That you can’t see that one is hypocritical and one isn’t says more about you than me.

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        They are literally advocating for civil war as a means of change, but refuse to engage in any behavior that would contribute to that goal.

        Well again that’s only if you’re only thinking about your own perspective. If that person had your perspective, we wouldn’t be here. Do you consider it bizarre for someone to believe that were already on the path to civil war, much the same way you believe you believe engaging with the electoral system will yield progress? It’s not as if there are no signs of widening divisions in the country, authoritarian leaders trying to seize power, violent political rhetoric, militarized police forces, and dysfunctional governance.

        Their comments are deleted now, so I can’t even reference them but lets look at the democrats own messaging. When the dems say things like “vote like your democracy depends on it” it’s not unreasonable for them to infer that staying home would then mean hastening of a civil war. So either them protesting the vote does indeed contribute to the goal of civil war, or this elections not as important as the messaging they’re probably getting blasted with is making it seem.