#You don't rescind your ability to protest by voting- it's not given to you by the government it's your own power.

[vamptastic]

like literally yeah fuck the democrats awful shit happens under the powers that be no matter who is in office but when provided a choice between awful and still awful but maybe better for you personally i think picking the latter is fine. the 'third option' of communist revolution is not going to be prevented because you voted for kamala harris, and if you think the democrats will change their strategy in any meaningful way because they're losing the votes of communists, you're fucking stupid. this is a choice made purely to make you feel better for not commiting an act that is technically immoral but functionally does nothing, good or bad. i can understand that my very utilitarian mindset is not universal, and that this minor contradiction of morals can be quite distressing but quite frankly: get over it. y'all need to resolve this moral quandary and make a logical choice.

this is the third election in my lifetime where a bunch of online leftists posture about their hatred for the democratic candidate, drive the votes for them down, say it doesn't matter because true change will only come through revolution, and then do not fucking revolt like, even a little. the march towards fascism is going to keep fucking going in the absence of major change so maybe we can be either a little more proactive about said major change or we can try to make fascism slightly more livable, but fucking pick one.