Voting makes you think your opinion matters while you vote, but it actually doesn’t matter. Voting makes you think you can change something, but it doesn’t change anything. Voting makes you think you should wait for a lot of time to change something in elections, while you can strike right away and shouldn’t wait for elections. Voting makes you think you are living in a free democratic country, but it is actually a monarchy and dictatorship.
Do you think the votes are really 49-51% randomly? Or do you ever think it might be intentional. They have all the media, all the power, they can make you think whatever they want.
What they do is, give you two shitty options, make you vote for them 49-51% and do whatever they want and make you fight each other while they are doing the things that you hate.
People are fighting like “if you hadn’t voted for this guy, that wouldn’t have happened” but it would have happened again, because the other side is also working for the same guys.
Do not vote. Do not wait for elections. Go on strike right away. Stop following media, stop following politics, if your life sucks nobody will change it but you.
The poor has no friends other than the poor. Do not become enemy to your poor/worker friend, even if they support the other political party, even if they are minority that you dont like.
Edit: I really do not understand. I told people we can elect a monkey if we had media, and they upvoted it: https://lemmy.world/post/43003985 While, when I tell people voting doesnt work and we should stop doing it, it is downvoted. This doesnt make sense. Media can make people elect a monkey, but we should still go vote??
No. When you’re given two shitty options, you choose the less shitty one. That’s what adults do. Children throw a tantrum, flip over the board, and cry about how unfair it all is…which inevitably means other people choose for them. Deciding not to participate at all, just guarantees you will always be a victim to someone else’s choice. In this case, you got Trump.
Honestly, the fact that you’ve had an entire year to digest the consequences of NOT voting, and you STILL hold this absurd view, just tells me everything there is to know about your critical thinking skills. If you can’t even grasp the basics of cause and effect, maybe you’re right…maybe you shouldn’t vote.
My vote has no effects, your vote has no effects. You get the propaganda from TV, social media, billboards and you think you are choosing the leader, but they actually choose the one they want by making you vote for them.
If you are a political candidate, you need zero talent, all you need is media. Give me media power, and I can make people choose a monkey.
Less shitty one is the same, it just seems to be less shitty. They are played by the same guys. Even if they are not currently played, they will be played. Do not except anything from politics. Create a solidarity, boycott everything, go on strike.
So, voting makes you think something will change and postpones everything.
Lol! And what will that do? This is just you, throwing a tantrum like a child. Without also backing up any actions you take with legislation, nothing you do will matter. Your actions will all have been for nothing.
You have your entire worldview backwards. You have convinced yourself that doing nothing is the best course of action. While any rational person with even a shred of common sense can see the flaw in your stupidity. Go back to sleep, sheep. You are wasting oxygen the rest of us could be using to more effect.
You are using oxygen very well, so you elected Trump. That’s great. Bravo!
Did I tell you do nthing? I told you to stop voting and actually do something. You are telling me, no we need to vote lol
Except that what you are telling me to do, will have literally zero effect with someone like Trump in charge. Unless you have people in office that are willing to write and defend legislation that will protect your rights, then all the “action” you think you are taking, will do nothing, long-term.
Read a book, kid. Learn how the working class gained as much as it did last century. Learn how political apathy has led to almost all those rights being clawed back by the elites that currently control the system. Your “strategy”, is how we got here. All you are advocating for with this bullshit, is to clear the path for them to take away even more. You are the total lack of resistance they are counting on, in order to get what they want.
Working class didn’t gain rights by voting obviously. They got it by striking, by stopping working, by solidarity, by unions. I don’t think voting has more effects than 5%, if we include everything they made. We give too much importance to voting. It actually matters so little
Laws are what solidify our rights. Without laws to prevent it, the working class would be slaughtered every time they do what you claim is all that’s required.
With Trump in power, we’re heading back in that direction. They want to undo all the progress we’ve made over the last century. Voting is what keeps people like Trump out of office. The only way to prevent fascism is to never let it have power in the first place. You need to vote in order to prevent that from happening. If you don’t…then all you are doing is standing aside and holding the door open for them, instead of standing in their way.
I don’t understand, Trump is heading us back, he came with voting, and you say voting keeps him out of office. He literally came there by voting. You are telling me, voting prevents fascism, while voting takes them to the power. I really don’t understand.
Solidarity, unions keep them out of office, while voting is what makes them be in power.
Ok. So, is it just that you don’t understand how democracies work, then? Or do you just not agree that they work, at all? I feel like I’m talking to someone who was born yesterday, and needs the most basic concepts explained to them.