#i would uproot my whole fucking life rather than live under trump again
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12u3ie · 6 months ago
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reminder that anyone telling you not to vote is either an idiot or trying to strip away your rights 😊
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rjalker · 5 months ago
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This post makes it very clear you don't listen to indigenous people at all
and that you are not actually listening to a single thing anyone who refuses to support genocide is saying, and that you think there's literally only two options for voting at all.
twelves rambles#us politics#serious posting time baby!#'im not voting for biden-' well then. either youre not voting (bad) or voting for trump (really bad) #so. you dont care.#biden isnt good by any means#but do you know how bad trump would be?#no really. do you have any idea how fucking worse trump would be?#i would literally flee the us if trump was elected. not kidding at all here.#i would uproot my whole fucking life rather than live under trump again#'biden doesnt care about palestine or poc or-' neither does trump!#at least biden gives half a shit about bodily autonomy and queer rights and clean energy etc etc#if you are not voting blue in america this election i do not trust you. full stop#(not including those who cant vote obvs)#not voting is worse than voting. the fascists try to strip away voting rights for a reason.#voting is important#thank you for coming to my ted talk
Joe Biden is literally comitting genocide right now. As you read this response. He is fascist. He is comitting genocide. You cannot pretend that the people who refuse to support genocide simply "don't care" and insist that by refusing to vote for the man who is literally comitting genocide, that's the exact same thing as voting for Trump.
Either you think this country has a real democracy, or you think that not voting for Biden is the same thing as voting for Trump. You can't have it both ways.
And you do not get to call people who refuse to vote idiots who want to oppress others when a ton of the people who refuse to vote are literally indigenous people refusing to give legitimacy to the government that has been comitting genocide against them since before it was even written up in the constitution.
You cannot demand people vote for the leopards eating people's faces party and then pretend that everyone who refuses to do so is actually just a hateful bigot.
You are literally trying to shame people into supporting genocide because you think it'll benefit you.
There's a word for that. It starts with an F and ends with an M.
Read this whole entire article before responding. The entire thing.
Here's some short quotes:
“Voting consolidates the power of a whole society in the hands of a few politicians.” When this process is conducted under colonial authority, there is no option but political death for Indigenous Peoples. In other words, voting can never be a survival strategy under colonial rule. It’s a strategy of defeat and victimhood that protracts the suffering and historical harm induced by ongoing settler colonialism. And while the harm reduction sentiment may be sincere, even hard won marginal reforms gained through popular support can be just as easily reversed by the stroke of a politician’s pen. If voting is the democratic participation in our own oppression, voting as harm reduction is a politics that keeps us at the mercy of our oppressors.
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Lucy Parsons, an Afro-Indigenous anarchist was among many who critiqued suffrage at the time. Parsons wrote in 1905, “Can you blame an Anarchist who declares that man-made laws are not sacred?…The fact is money and not votes is what rules the people. And the capitalists no longer care to buy the voters, they simply buy the ‘servants’ after they have been elected to ‘serve.’ The idea that the poor man’s vote amounts to anything is the veriest delusion.The ballot is only the paper veil that hides the tricks.”
reminder that anyone telling you not to vote is either an idiot or trying to strip away your rights 😊
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arrowawsome · 6 months ago
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#twelves rambles#us politics#serious posting time baby!#'im not voting for biden-' well then. either youre not voting (bad) or voting for trump (really bad)#so. you dont care.#biden isnt good by any means#but do you know how bad trump would be?#no really. DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA HOW FUCKING WORSE TRUMP WOULD BE?#i would literally flee the us if trump was elected. not kidding at all here.#i would uproot my whole fucking life rather than live under trump again#'biden doesnt care about palestine or poc or-' NEITHER DOES TRUMP!#at least biden gives half a shit about bodily autonomy and queer rights and clean energy etc etc#if you are not voting blue in america this election i do not trust you. full stop#(not including those who cant vote obvs)#not voting is worse than voting. the fascists try to strip away voting rights for a reason.#voting is important#thank you for coming to my ted talk
this is so important do not leave in the tags
reminder that anyone telling you not to vote is either an idiot or trying to strip away your rights 😊
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