• InternetCitizen2
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    21 hours ago

    Harm reduction for whom

    For many vulnerable people. Its good that you are unaffected by the election results, but please check your privilege.

    Voting is the bare minimum civic participation.

    A bare minimum that mls cannot be bothered to do. As such they have no credibility to doing higher level activity.

    Funny, did this in the 2024 ‘primaries’ with uncommitt…

    Are you aware that there have been elections before that? We should have been organized long before. J Edgar Hoover thanks you for your contributions. You are the leftist he would wish to see. Disorganized and unwilling to take actions.

    I’m not apathetic, I’m actually quite involved in irl organizing (actual organizing, not electoral). I’m just not particularly invested in the democratic party.

    Right, you cared so much you couldn’t spare an afternoon every two years? Maybe skip the shit posting a few days to get some of the time to do so. Not all of us are so privileged as to not care about the harm reduction at the least.

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      20 hours ago

      Its good that you are unaffected by the election results

      I’m actually pretty fucking affected by them, I’m a trans woman and plenty fucking familiar with economic precarity. I’ve been having my prescriptions fucked with on and off ever since Trump got in office, my insurance even stopped covering pretty much every formulation of estrogen other than ones used by cis women

      You’re lecturing me about privilege because you don’t like how I feel about your preferred party of genocide enablers.

      A bare minimum that mls cannot be bothered to do.

      I’ve voted in pretty much every fucking election on and off year in my adult life, plus I’m an anarchist.

      J Edgar Hoover thanks you for your contributions

      It’s rich accusing me of being a fed/useful idiot while identifying voting for the democratic party as the truly useful activity.

      You couldn’t spare an afternoon every two years?

      Once more, I’ve fucking voted every year for over two decades. I even vote in municipal elections, those happen on odd numbered years.

      feel free to continue attacking straw targets though I guess.

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        20 hours ago

        It’s rich accusing me of being a fed/useful idiot while identifying voting for the democratic party as the truly useful activity.

        Seems you didn’t read my opening statement:

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          It’s not like you’ve read anything I’ve said. You couldn’t even seem to register that I vote in these fucking elections routinely and still find the democrats disgusting.

          I also did read and respond to that, you called me privileged without engaging with anything I said.

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            20 hours ago

            and still find the democrats disgusting.

            And I never said you were wrong to do so. I am saying your bad attitude around voting is undermining our leftist movements by being needlessly divisive.

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              20 hours ago

              personally I find sending unlimited weapons to a genocide to be needlessly divisive.

              feel free to continue trying to tone police my ‘bad attitude’ (criticizing democrats)

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                personally I find sending unlimited weapons to a genocide to be needlessly divisive.

                And therefore we should ignore voting even more? The ml position here reads like abstinence; which is effectively to give up.

                feel free to continue trying to tone police my ‘bad attitude’ (criticizing democrats)

                Talk about a strawman. Like I said earlier. It would be ideal for us to have our own party. It would be great if mls like you would join us in support of it. Until then the progressive wing of US politics lives in the dem party and it would be helpful to our movement to help it grow as much as it can.

                And since you care so much about strawmanning; don’t forget I did say voting is only one thing we should do. Not the only thing ;)

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                  19 hours ago

                  And therefore we should ignore voting even more? The ml position here reads like abstinence; which is effectively to give up.

                  Hey, I’m an anarchist, at least pretend you’re reading anything I’m saying. I vote plenty, you can’t seem to register that though because you’re stuck fighting ghosts.

                  It would be great if mls like you would join us in support of it. Until then the progressive wing of US politics lives in the dem party and it would be helpful to our movement to help it grow as much as it can.

                  “We should have our own party BUT actually let’s just be dem progressives forever”

                  Also I’m an anarchist, once more you seem incapable of processing anything I say.

                  And since you care so much about strawmanning; don’t forget I did say voting is only one thing we should do. Not the only thing ;)

                  You spend an entire thread accusing me of not voting and undermining leftism by criticizing dems and are now pretending that voting isn’t all you are advocating for? Talking out both sides of your mouth

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                    19 hours ago

                    Hey, I’m an anarchist, at least pretend you’re reading anything I’m saying. I vote plenty, you can’t seem to register that though because you’re stuck fighting ghosts.

                    And I am still asking you to make common cause with us to vote for short term goals. Do you want to quote were I said you should not want to ultimatly destroy the government?

                    “We should have our own party BUT actually let’s just be dem progressives forever”

                    Given how much push back I am getting from a fellow lefty like yourself to vote left we are going to be stuck as progressive dem for some time. Thanks for your contribution here.

                    now pretending that voting isn’t all you are advocating for?

                    I’ll refer you to my opening comment Ms. Strawman.