#fuck my entire point is you're better off voting because at least then you've said your piece one way that isn't existential Twitter thread | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

tumbloggingattheendofitall · 2 months ago

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And not that it's actually going to stop anyone from coming for me I guess, but like. Not voting in the US this election cycle because of your disgust at the handling of the Palestinian genocide by the US government isn't actually the Great Big Political Statement Of Solidarity you think it is

What it is, is apathy. No I'm not naïve enough to believe that voting blue absolves me of the crimes committed by my country on the word of a bunch of out of touch oligarchs. But not voting doesn't actually absolve us of any of that either, and it only materially makes things worse for everybody, locally and globally, when we allow our political apathy to keep us from Working Towards Better outcomes

#in other words don't listen to the Russian bots 2 electric boogaloo #if you live in a country with elections please vote #there's caveats to this sentence but like safely 98% of my audience lives in North or South America somewhere #and there's a really really high percentage of countries with (arguably fair and free) elections and like #if you live in the non global South i frankly think you have a responsibility to vote at a care fucking minimum and especially in the US #I'm not gonna be able to make this brief and concise #just #fuck man if someone is busy telling you that voting is useless they have an agenda and not voting plays into that agenda #do you really want to enact someone else's unnamed and potentially awful agenda all because you're in your feelings about voting #I'm in my feelings about voting but that doesn't mean i stop doing it #it means i do more like calling and emailing representatives when i can and putting money and time where i believe it belongs #when i can afford the energy for the other #it's creating a culture of mutual aid in my friend circles #and curating a world where voting is simply one task like when you have to pay your registration #it's a part of the process of being an adult with autonomous thought but it's never where we Finish actually #it's the beginning of the conversation with the people that are supposed to 'represent' me #fuck my entire point is you're better off voting because at least then you've said your piece one way that isn't existential Twitter thread #and how many existential Twitter threads have changed anything ever anywhere?#I'd hazard to guess it's not very many

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