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[–] 2 points 1 month ago (8 children)

Further, when people treat voting as their primary means of political engagement, they do check out!

You said it right there.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago (7 children)

    Yep! I never said voting causes apathy, I pointed to the way people treat voting as a cause of apathy towards organizing. Critical distinction!

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  • [–] 0 points 1 month ago (6 children)

    Which you failed to prove regardless. Your argument is based on nothing

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago (5 children)

    I gave evidence, you pretended the evidence didn't support my point because you continued to pretend my point was a different one entirely.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago (4 children)

    I deadass quoted you and now you're moving the goalposts. "I didn't saaaaay voting was bad and pointless ;)" doesn't cut it.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago

    His original comment reads: (bold emphasis mine)

    When voting is treated like the absolutely most important means of political struggle, people do tune out and neglect to organize.

    You appear to be interpreting it as if he had said:

    When voting exists, people do tune out and neglect to organize.

    From what I can tell, his argument was never that the very existence of voting causes political apathy in voters, as you seem to be implying. Rather, he is arguing that the promotion of voting as either the primary or as the only valid form of political action causes voters to disregard other forms.

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