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Everyone knows capital-first politicians don't actually care about us. We get it.
I'm all 'bout that fancy praxis and mutual aid and all those lofty but pure concepts we definitely need to be working on. But we live in a society here.
Not voting right now is giving an out-and-out fascist a ridiculous amount of power to start crushing and punishing anybody with a different opinion.
We're doing what we can with what we have to soften the blow, so we can actually have the chance to work on the higher concepts like "changing the people involved in it."
I'd much rather be on the ground convincing people to form unions to safely backtalk their bosses, rather than rallying up guerilla units amidst a "boogaloo" because a bunch of hateful and uneducated people put a screeching orange baby on a throne who refused to leave and became "holy immortal emperor."
Lmao hyperbole aside. Seriously. Standing on the sidelines and going "hmph" is basically a vote for things that are likely Very Bad For You(TM).