I got banned in that very same thread as well, for the same reasons. Although admittedly I was being quite venomous so I guess I deserved it, but still. It's a community filled with people who think that they didn't participate in voting, so they're free of blame for everything happening right now

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_anarchism

Socialism is only far as fuck from anarchism if you don't know anything about anarchism

Anarchism is libertarian socialism. You're an idiot who doesn't know what the words you're using mean.

The idea of a ballot being capable of reducing the harm in a system rooted in colonial domination and exploitation, white supremacy, hetero-patriarchy, and capitalism is an extraordinary exaggeration. There is no person whose lives aren’t impacted everyday by these systems of oppression, but instead of coded reformism and coercive “get out the vote” campaigns towards a “safer” form of settler colonialism, we’re asking “what is the real and tragic harm and danger associated with perpetuating colonial power and what can be done to end it?”

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/voting-is-not-harm-reduction

Harm reduction is harmful

Voting as harm reduction does more harm than good. Accepting reforms through voting makes people settle for a partial goal; it is a concession. From this position of compromise, the state entrenches its position, and it becomes more difficult to push further, for voters fear losing their partial gains. Accepting harm reduction also divides the movement, because some will be satisfied with the crumbs, while others want it all (see the split at the ZAD). Harm reduction also assumes that the harm (the government) cannot be removed entirely, which is an argument that there can be no anarchy.

Voting is not harm reduction

For the vast majority of issues, there’s no difference between the political parties. They are all the parties of business, climate destruction, deportation, incarceration, police, surveillance, drone strikes, sacred site desecration, et cetera. By getting you to believe that there is a lesser of two evils, the state dampens your desire for abolishing it, because you are meant to believe that things will be worse if you don’t vote and support a political party. Look at the fact that the George Floyd Rebellion occurred under Trump, where liberals, and progressives, and leftists didn’t get what they want, where the harm was supposedly greater, than under Biden, where those same people lie dormant, accepting the lesser evil world as a blessed reprieve.

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/anonymous-why-you-shouldn-t-vote#toc1

who defended her? I defended the people

that's fucking bullshit, and you know it.

I would offer them a chance to surrender and spend their life redeeming for their actions first - if possible.

But yes 100% on board with shooting the gop.

As for the ban

The GOP is working hard to convince the people that voting for the other side won’t change anything. They want so badly to stay in power. And if we think they haven’t noticed the Fediverse, we’re sorely mistaken.

They’re not telling themselves. And they know they won’t convince you or me. They’re hoping they’ll catch somebody. Maybe this thread is a wash because we spoke up, but there’s always the next one.

It was because they tried pretending I was a GOP PsyOp and they had valiantly foiled my dastardly plans. Bad-jacketing and all that.

Specifically, the person was encouraging people not to vote against the Republicans because the Democrats were just as bad. I mean yeah, both parties are kinda shit, but the party in complete power astroturfing on social media to convince people the other side is no better so they can stay in power, it just seems absurd to me.

I don't know if there's a good third option Americans can vote for instead, but it seems to me that keeping the Republicans in power hasn't done any good for the American people. In 2016, Trump lost the popular vote but was appointed, so by the way the system works, he won, and he did a pretty shit job. He lost the popular vote in 2020 by even more and Biden won. He started a riot and tried to prevent the transfer of power. He won fair and square (AFAIK) in 2024, and he's made things pretty much worse in his first year. So we've seen what happens when you keep the Republicans of this generation in power.

And these people aren't even saying "if we keep the Republicans in full control of all three branches of the American government, they'll stop these pointless wars for oil, they'll stop waging war on the LGBTQ+ community, and they'll stop waging war on their own citizens." They're just saying "the other side is just as bad."

That's what the conversation was and that's my point. I don't lie — I didn't come to this thread to make my case. I've stated it plainly here because you asked. What I came to this thread to do was to support the OP.

That's precisely why I've never said that it's all of the posts, but the majority of them. Most posts there talk shit about right-wing of capital (i.e. the police and neoliberalism), are just anarchist larp material (throw molotov i am so cool type shit), or some vague anti-capitalist virtue signalling. These kinds of posts are something that most liberals (especially socdem servile belief in the state types) agree with and subscribe to the community for, and it can easily be observed when the occasional post that happens to disagree or attack them gets posted.

It's the natural outcome of plopping down 20 posts every single day from other websites, most of them are going to be heavily upvoted inoffensive crap that are made to be agreed with and not consistent polemics.