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[–] 26 points 4 months ago (37 children)
  • [–] [S] 18 points 4 months ago (16 children)

    Yes, but for harm reduction only

    If you want to have actual progress you gotta work outside of the system

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  • [–] 6 points 4 months ago (7 children)

    Elaborate on working outside of the system.

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  • [–] 6 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    What do you want from your government?

    Your government won't do it.

    Do it your fucking self. I dunno. You want better schools? Start one, improve the ones that exist, whatever. You want safer streets? Start pouring concrete and slashing tires. You want asafe injection site?

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  • [–] -1 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    After you. Im guessing you don’t actually want any of that.

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

    None of those are exactly my issue, no (I was using standard talking points politicians appeal to people like you by promising, then forget on election night), but if someone got started on one of those projects and I had spare time, I'd pitch in. I do in fact do the shit I believe in.

    Goverent does not give you things. It gives you orders. It corrupts your intentions. Its very heart is rot. The actual stuff is done by people. Those people exist, they live on your street, in your building. Maybe you're one of them, if you're jot a completely bullshit professional managerial fuckhead with no skills-and even then you can learn shit (I did) or function as a warm body. The tools are around. Sometimes they're big and hard to diy/steal, sometimes it’s shit you've got laying around.

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Like the other said. Meet up with your neighbors and address those issues together as a community

    You can draw inspiration from here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosfygika_of_Alexandras_avenue#Self-organised_structures

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  • [–] -2 points 4 months ago (6 children)

    Sure, if you only vote in general elections and only vote for federal positions.

    Local and primary elections allow for much more opportunity for change. But only if you participate.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (5 children)

    Not usually. Last time I voted in a local election the candidates every position looked like looked like:

    School board, two of the following candidates:

    Aaron Hitler(R): reverse integration, apply more discipline to students, stop paying teachers so damn much, get the globalist bankers out of our children's education!

    Phillipa Marinetti(D): replace teachers with ai, increase budget by 500%, turn all facilities into data centers and create a machine to feed the weakest children into for public entertainment!

    david yutani-vonweyland(independent): put the kids to work in our shiny new factory! Create jobs!

    Oh and

    Do we want to add more money to the can high speed rail fund to build high speed rail that my parents voted successfully to approve when I was a child? We gave all the money to elon musk. OOPSIE

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  • [–] -3 points 4 months ago (4 children)

    Sucks for you, i guess. But thats not true of everywhere, and often you can often help encourage better candidates by prosthelytizing your ideals to those around you.

    We do not live in vacuums, and treating every issue as something you have to solve completely by yourself is a recipe for failure.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago* (2 children)

    Cripes, they are getting more anti social in their responses. Hey Zorque, if folks don't live in a vacuum, how come cops are allowed to murder me in broad daylight, while my governor can seat in es mansion watching us get bombed on in 4K?

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  • [–] 15 points 4 months ago (17 children)

    No. Desiring not to be governed doesn’t mean you block your ears and pretend you aren’t governed. That’s how you get Trump.

    :spray: 1
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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (5 children)

    Is that really the state of anarchist thought on Lemmy? Capitalism apologia....

    Ok let's address some of your concerns, even tho I am not sure you can read given your comments.

    Trump is not a product of people not voting, he is a product of the capitalist system, lack of education and people believing that choosing the right person to lead them will fix things.

    Additionally for who else are you gonna vote? For the pride genocide party? The only difference is that they only kill brown children while the republicans kill based on economic lines.

    And even allowing that there is a "good" and a "bad" party. The voting process itself can be corrupted, that's why you have only 2 parties is America.

    Imo the most destructive thing here is that voting is used as a placebo for illiterate Americans and wester Europeans to divert their desire for change and instead of building something or doing something useful, they are happy to elect the next mass murderer and wait 4 years to see that it didn't work.

    A final thing. I agree what we are are ruled, but answer me that. Why would they care what you think about their rule?

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  • [–] -2 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    I’m obviously going to stop at the ability to read part. I hope you’ve enjoyed typing that. Get that dopamine. You seem unable to hold a single thought in your head for more than a few seconds without screaming. Is there a text Tourette’s

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  • [–] -1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (10 children)

    🥾‍👅💦
    Nah lol. You get Dumpf when you let Capitalists run ur wee ass country. How bout u make bourgies examples than elect ur new capitalist boot?

    Ur 2A is for wat nau?

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    Somewhere with poor public education, I see.

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    ᚦn y r u here yappŋ
    yar electoral college is in DC .

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  • [–] -2 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    You don’t understand local voting. Stop making a fool out of yourself or someone’s gonna think you’re a MAGAt, or a Wumao.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    Votŋ for wat, fő?

    Stop making a fool out of yourself or someone’s gonna think you’re a MAGAt, or a Wumao.

    🪞

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