If you want to be technical about it then yes it’s violence. But someone tried to kill someone and they fought back in self defence, it would be weird to label them as being violent right? It’s not like the person wanted violence, they would rather they weren’t attacked in the first place.
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Yes. Voting is useful for showing solidarity with the movement and demonstrating how the current system doesn’t work. Just because it isn’t capable of causing any meaningful change doesn’t mean it’s useless.
You don’t believe there are WMD? What are you some authoritarian simping tankie?
Oh yeah that’s dumb. It should be the modern Korean war.
I feel like there needs to be a good word for someone who has the capacity to do better burlt chooses to dwell in ignorance and should be ashamed of that.
“People hated living under communism just ask them”
Actually you’ll find most people preferred living under communism
“They’re just blinded by nostalgia”
So you can’t just ask people about what it was like under communism?
“No you can, if you did you’d find they all hated it”
Monkey’s paw curls. Raw chicken is now more expensive than cooked chicken; The price of cooked chicken remains the same.
Anarchists are left. Anything to the left of capitalism is left. Anarchists want to get rid of capitalism.
Which country was that?
Right wing parties won’t do better don’t vote for them.
And no you can never move things closer to a multiparty system by voting for one of the two party system candidates. They benefit from that system why would they give up their power like that?
Nothing will change if you keep voting for one of the main two.
Yup. No doubt. But the choice between “things are bad” and “fascism” is, while distasteful, an easy choice.
Is genocide not fascism?
The status quo still involves people dying.
It’s not though because people exploit you for your labour. People like Bezos aren’t multibillionares because they work 10000x harder than a minimum wage worker, they get that wealth by exploiting others. And people like him don’t take the first few million and retire, they hoard all that wealth because people who are willing to exploit people to thay degree and make people piss in bottles aren’t going to be people who give a shit about helping other people.
We could live in a society where you’re free to work a little harder and be rewarded for it because you have to ability to do so and any extra cash you earnt could go to helping those less fortunate who aren’t able to work as much as you do.
Under the current system “productivity” means making lots of money for your boss. If you work a job that’s valuable to society like being a teacher you still don’t get paid as much. Or if you’re an artist or you aren’t capable of working 40 hours a week you’re seen as a less productive member of society.
Being a valued member of society shouldn’t be based on working two full time jobs because if you can afford to pay all your bills and buy a nice car and house then that’s proof of your success.
Making things better for the community according to your ability to do so.



That doesn’t mean there aren’t people who do believe we should return to feudalism though.