relative to everything else

Not even remotely what I said. I'm pretty sure I actually said specifically that the "everything else" was going to be vital. I think you should read to understand, not to confirm.

then they ratfuck our guys literally every single time

I didn't do that. Someone else did, and fuck those guys. It's a massive problem. Activism to fix that is absolutely vital, showing up and voting and nothing else is kind of pointless (again, definitely at this point).

The point is that giving up on elections completely means that it's all ratfucking and no citizen input into formal politics. That's why I compared it with getting vaccines: Whatever you're worried about as the theoretical health impacts, it is astronomically better than not doing it.

I get what you're trying to say that I'm coming off harsh, but if an apartment building burned down and some families died and a lot more were homeless, and after that I heard someone talking about how they took the batteries out of their smoke detector (in the same building) because they think it's better not to have them in, I would have the same reaction.

You seemed to be going off on it pretty viciously

I mean I'm not purely trying to. It does upset me though. See the smoke detector analogy.

I was repeating something i had heard, that I specifically stated was not my position.

You said, "I personally am of the opinion that voting isn’t very important. I think it distracts from real action." Right?

Edit: Moderated the language, I don't need to be all mean about it. You may be right about that part.