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   ☭ 𝗖 𝗔 𝗧 ☭ (radical_egocom@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 18-Jan-2024 03:01:49 JST ☭ 𝗖 𝗔 𝗧 ☭

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   Voting merely provide an illusion of choice while upholding the status quo. Systemic issues, such as corporate influence, limit the impact of individual votes and undermine the democratic process. Real change requires a more radical approach. I acknowledge the historical struggles for suffrage and civil rights, but I also acknowledge that meaningful societal change requires dismantling oppressive structures rather than attempting to reform them through conventional political channels.

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     Indeed!

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     WhichOne'sPink 🇫🇮 (nickschwanck@aus.social)'s status on Thursday, 18-Jan-2024 03:01:39 JST WhichOne'sPink 🇫🇮

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     @Radical_EgoCom @TheShuck Well that's an excellent point. But by that metric, I can't think of an American president that wasn't a fascist.

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     ☭ 𝗖 𝗔 𝗧 ☭ (radical_egocom@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 18-Jan-2024 03:01:41 JST ☭ 𝗖 𝗔 𝗧 ☭

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     Look at the state of the country and who's running for President and tell me again if voting last time stopped any fascist.

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     WhichOne'sPink 🇫🇮 (nickschwanck@aus.social)'s status on Thursday, 18-Jan-2024 03:01:42 JST WhichOne'sPink 🇫🇮

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     @Radical_EgoCom @TheShuck It worked last time.

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     WhichOne'sPink 🇫🇮 (nickschwanck@aus.social)'s status on Thursday, 18-Jan-2024 03:01:44 JST WhichOne'sPink 🇫🇮

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     @Radical_EgoCom @TheShuck Under a dictatorship, Rosa Parks and MLK will simply be killed.
     MLK was.

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     You're missing the freaking point of the entire comment. If direct action won't work, what makes you think putting a little slip in a ballot box will be superior at beating fascist?

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     WhichOne'sPink 🇫🇮 (nickschwanck@aus.social)'s status on Thursday, 18-Jan-2024 03:01:46 JST WhichOne'sPink 🇫🇮

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     @Radical_EgoCom @TheShuck Do you have an historical example to illustrate this point?

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     The Civil Rights Movement in the US during the 60's, when, due to their frustration with the slow progress of traditional electoral means, activists like Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks employed nonviolent direct action. The Montgomery Bus Boycott showcased the power of collective action. Another example is the LGBTQ+ rights movement, particularly the Stonewall riots in 1969, characterized by spontaneous, direct action against police harassment at the Stonewall Inn

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     ☭ 𝗖 𝗔 𝗧 ☭ (radical_egocom@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 18-Jan-2024 03:01:47 JST ☭ 𝗖 𝗔 𝗧 ☭

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     @TheShuck You keep assuming that there's absolutely nothing people can do to prevent themselves from being imprisoned if they don't vote, which isn't true. Direct action is much better at preventing authoritarians from coming into power than voting ever will.

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     Ghost (theshuck@mstdn.social)'s status on Thursday, 18-Jan-2024 03:01:49 JST Ghost

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     @Radical_EgoCom If the choice is between someone openly telling you that they're going to start a dictatorship and one that isn't your interpretation of that is that they're both the same. What ridiculous, student politics bullshit. You can't change anything if you're imprisoned or worse can you. How much change did the Jews bring about during the holocaust?

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     carl marks (tillshadeisgone@blackqueer.life)'s status on Thursday, 18-Jan-2024 03:04:17 JST carl marks

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     As an ancillary point, the Civil Rights movement (as much as one can characterize a complex movement so simply) was fighting for liberation. Ppl like to pretend that they only fought for the right to vote, when in fact they dared to aim much, much higher.