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??
“Do not vote. Do not wait for elections. Go on strike right away. Stop following media, stop following politics”
Most people in the U.S. would end up homeless pretty quick if they followed this advice.
You’d have like 5,000 people a day on strike, and they’d all be fired and replaced and no one would know about it because they didn’t follow media or hear anyone talking about politics supporting it.
Kind of works out to, kill yourself and possibly your family, and hope no one knows about it
It is impossible for most people to be homeless. Will the houses stay empty? Will the people look at their friends and allow them to stay in the streets?
They’d be replaced, which changes nothing then.
Do not do anything individually of course, but waiting for elections to change something doesnt work. They are just delaying everything until the next elections.
If you don’t think your vote matters…don’t vote. But stop trying to convince other people not to. More people need to get involved in how the government is run…not less.
Politically illiterate people like yourself are the biggest reason why Trump is currently in power. Americans are generally poorly educated, but to actively try and spread your stupidity to others is not just ignorant…it’s evil.
You are the reason Trump is in power, because you believe in democracy and they give you two shitty options and you think this makes sense. You are illiterate. You think this stupid way of choosing a leader is a good way lol
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.Do not except anything from politics. Create a solidarity, boycott everything, go on strike.
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 lolAnd what will that do? It will do 1000X more things than voting and thinking you are changing something 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
Better to vote independent than not vote at all.
Your vote doesn’t matter. They already know the result of the election beforehand. It is not hard
