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Voting is the bare fucking minimum. You want more change you have to do more. Help candidates you like by volunteering your time, vote in primaries especially, and your local elections. A city council member might end up mayor, might end up senator, might end up presidential hopeful. Push for ranked choice voting, write your reps and tell them that is what you want.
So close, and yet so far…
Yes, voting is the bare minimum, vote, but as you say, if you want change, you have to do more.
So why on earth would you invest any more than the bare minimum in to a system that is designed to preserve the status quo?
I’m sorry, but if you’re still pinning your hopes on change via electorate, you’ve not been paying attention.
Why donate time and money to a candidate fighting windmills by participating in a rigged game, when you can actually contribute towards feeding your neighbours? Or supporting your local workers who are striking? Or building communal services like libraries (for books, but also movies, tools, toys, pots and pans, anything!) and spaces for people to practice hobbies and connect?
Building strong communities that understand and practice solidarity and mutual aid is the only way to build a better society and create an alternative to the systems we’ve been forced to exist under by and so a handful of people can hoard all of the power and resources.
My god, the privilege you must have to be so fucking blasé about the wellbeing of others who will suffer under another Trump administration. If you were in danger under a Trump administration but not in danger under a Biden administration, you would not be talking this way. It’s privilege that prevents you from seeing that.
The feet are the financial industry.
And the cloaca are the healthcare providers.
The only way to 100% solve this is by:
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organizing, supplanting party insiders from the ground up over years, with hard work and dedication through many years, with no guarantee of success
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risk it for a biscuit
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accept messy incrementalism into your heart
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Huh. I never thought about how Big Bird actually was controlled before. Neat.
Apparently by defense contractors.
I feel like the government is often a quest giver. The executive branch will let all of these companies run free so long as they do some project for the government on occasion. Like the NSA server deal with Microsoft. This is of course even more true with defense contractors, which get absurd contracts to “keep engineers trained” and the government tries to give the Mail Truck contract to Northrop-Grumman.
Lmfao at the libs in the comments pretending as if “team blue” doesn’t exist to serve the exact same people, just hide it behind a very slightly thicker veil…
And this dumb ass shit is how you get a second term of trump you fucking troglodytes.
