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   Kinoc-Kayfar ΘΔ (kinockayfar@dragonchat.org)'s status on Wednesday, 08-May-2024 17:00:21 JST Kinoc-Kayfar ΘΔ

   Honestly in all my time being in politics. I have never seen a good argument for why you can't be an anarchist and advocate voting for the lesser evil. It always boils down to some weird no true Scotsman fallacy about how you're not a true anarchist because you don't have the analysis of one. Like it's some religion where you have to believe x and believe x. No anarchism is simply opposition to all hierarchy. That's it. I'm going to stick to the label of anarchist transhumanist because that's what I am. I want to build a world where everyone is their own master. their own God. And I dislike the centralization of many marxists. So because of that I'm an anarchist. And I'm adding the label anarchist back to my bio. I honestly no longer care if people call me a liberal. I'm going to stand my ground. though I'm still going to develop a new ideology. It's just going to take a very long time to develop. So until then I'm just going to call myself a Anarchist transhumanist. though to give you a hint of what the new ideology is going to be. It's going to be a synthesis of anarchist transhumanism. Left accelerationism and cyber communism all combined into a new ideology

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     sofia ☮️🏴 (sofia@chaos.social)'s status on Wednesday, 08-May-2024 17:00:20 JST sofia ☮️🏴

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     @KinocKayfar i think the real concern with voting is just what it does to you. that you become attached to a party/candidate, and to some level accept their ruling position as legitimate. i do think that's a real risk, but i also think there's gotta be some some risk in telling antiauthoritarian-leaning people in particular not to vote. saying the average person shoudn't vote would be another issue, but that's probably not who you reach/convince with anti-voting sentiment.

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     on-lain ✔ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ (lain@lain.com)'s status on Wednesday, 08-May-2024 17:01:58 JST on-lain ✔ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ

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     • sofia ☮️🏴
     @sofia @KinocKayfar voting isn’t rational (or useful) for the individual, but motivating tons of people to vote your way is. But in the end it’s as you say, a way to brainwash people into thinking they “make a difference” and are politically active.