• SpookyBogMonster@lemmy.ml
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      Join a Union? Feed the homeless? Organize your fellow tenants? Actually attend a city council meeting?

      You’re smugly confirming your allegiance to the liberal death cult, because your only conception of “political engagement” is voting in a system that is crumbling before our very eyes.

      And no, just voting wouldn’t have stopped that decay. Nothing in the world is static, and 1000 years of Obama wouldn’t stop the larger political-economic factors that are fueling fascism, political polarization, and civil unrest.

      Cool, go vote, especially if it’s in your local and state elections that no one actually pays attention to. But disengage from the rat race, and do something with an actual impact in your community.

      • andybytes@programming.dev
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        Progressives are Neoliberal 2.0. In the corporate sector, this is called getting ahead of the problem. co-op the left before the left can even learn to walk again. There are billionaires on both sides supporting this pseudo world aka left and Right paradigm. We are all just watching Shadows dance on the walls. We are not going to vote our way out of these bigger problems. And if you keep it real and you see how the sausage is made, you can pretty much predict how this is all eventually gonna go. The Ratchet effect. We move further and further to the right. And clearly this has something to do with fiscal realities and the suffering of the working class. Like guns aren’t the problem. The problem is fiscal. And those fiscal problems lead to interpersonal issues. The guns don’t help though. We don’t like to deal with the root causes because it questions the very nature of our existence. Ultimately, I am victorious because we will destroy ourselves. We are literally in the process of destroying all life on Earth. It’s kind of awesome being right about everything. Unfortunately, I am mortal and I suffer just like all the other slobs.

        • masquenox@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          There are billionaires on both sides supporting this pseudo world aka left and Right paradigm.

          Really? Do tell… which billionaire parasites are (supposedly) funding the left?

          It’s kind of awesome being right about everything.

          That just tells me you’ve never been right about anything.

    • Guy Ingonito@reddthat.com
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      Aaaaaaand moderators have nuked my comments. Awesome. Any explanation as to why, besides not liking the points I was making?