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   Håkan Geijer (hakan_geijer@kolektiva.social)'s status on Tuesday, 07-Nov-2023 05:42:50 JST Håkan Geijer

   "Voting isn't anarchist."

   Friendo, neither is selling your labor to the bourgeoisie, but it's something we do because it makes it easier to continue the fight.

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     Håkan Geijer (hakan_geijer@kolektiva.social)'s status on Tuesday, 07-Nov-2023 05:45:08 JST Håkan Geijer

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     Every time there's an election somewhere in the English speaking world, I have to see the worst arguments for or against it. I don't really give a shit if you vote or not. I usually don't. But saying "voting isn't anarchist" is like such as useless argument because so much of what we do isn't perfectly 100% prefiguratively anti-authoritarian.

     Like please do not engage in electoralism, but throwing a piece of paper in a box in hope that your adversary is the less fascist one is not heresy. Get a grip.

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     charli (they) (tatogremlin@ni.hil.ist)'s status on Tuesday, 07-Nov-2023 05:56:59 JST charli (they)

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     @hakan_geijer well said, and strongly agree. voting will never be enough to build the new world we want to see, but it might buy us just a tiny bit more breathing room for that work.

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     Reveler in Lost Glee (ferrisffalcis@kolektiva.social)'s status on Tuesday, 07-Nov-2023 06:02:27 JST Reveler in Lost Glee

     • charli (they)

     @hakan_geijer a lot of anarchists on the internet are obsessed with optics to the detriment of everything else
     @TatoGremlin

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     mutual (mutual_ayyde@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 07-Nov-2023 06:07:47 JST mutual

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     @hakan_geijer just do a cost / benefit of how likely your vote is to affect change versus how bad the worst outcome is versus how much time it takes you to vote ez

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     mutual (mutual_ayyde@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 07-Nov-2023 06:31:10 JST mutual

     @hakan_geijer yeah its a joke

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     The Galactic Shitpost Outpost (cosmictrigger@kolektiva.social)'s status on Tuesday, 07-Nov-2023 10:29:21 JST The Galactic Shitpost Outpost

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     @hakan_geijer My problem is that I am not entirely sure Biden is the less fascist option here

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     Miia Mustang (miiamustang@eliitin-some.fi)'s status on Tuesday, 07-Nov-2023 16:03:32 JST Miia Mustang

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     @hakan_geijer Also, a sad realization is: most "normies" like elections, whether anarchists accept them or not.

     Not even marginally participating in the system everyone else around you sees as legitimate kinda pushes you and your ideas to the fringes of any political environment.

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     Inken Paper (crashglasshouses@kolektiva.social)'s status on Monday, 12-Feb-2024 07:02:21 JST Inken Paper

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     @hakan_geijer no it doesn't. it maintains a colonial status quo of making things easy for white people.

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     Inken Paper (crashglasshouses@kolektiva.social)'s status on Monday, 12-Feb-2024 08:14:03 JST Inken Paper

     @hakan_geijer how about you eat shit.