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    Expressing power outside the voting booth

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago (1 child)

    OK, so what stops you from doing that as well as voting?

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  • [–] -1 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Nothing. And that's what we all have to do, since voting doesn't fix 99% of the problems we need to solve. It's like trying to build muscle by studying math. Will studying math help you when you need to track your progress and understand angles and pulleys? Yes. But studying math isn't going to build muscle. Nothing is stopping me from going to the gym and also studying math, but studying math isn't actually the thing that will build muscle.

    Voting isn't solving any of our problems. Can it help a little bit with some of them? Maybe. But we need to be honest about what it will solve.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Can it help a little bit with some of them? Maybe

    Congrats, you agree with me.

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  • [–] -1 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Hey, don't let me stop you from signing up for trigonometry in order to build strength.

    I'll be at the gym.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago (1 child)

    Jesus Christ it really is like talking to Trump supporter.

    My message is an always has been doing both. Dumbass.

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  • [–] -1 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Why stop at two things? You could also be praying, buying crystals, and never changing your lucky underwear

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago (1 child)

    Because those don't do anything. Voting imperially, factually, undeniable makes some difference, you already admitted that.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Oh yes, I agree that voting makes some difference. But it's never stopped a war in 250 years. It's never stopped a genocide in 250 years. It's never liberated the working class in 250 years. It didn't give women the right to vote. It didn't give black people the right to vote. Honestly, I can't think of a single major policy that voting ever effected.

    Oh wait. I know why I think that. Because it's been empirically proven: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/perspectives-on-politics/article/abs/testing-theories-of-american-politics-elites-interest-groups-and-average-citizens/62327F513959D0A304D4893B382B992B

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