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Is this what we're doing? (lemmy.world)
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[–] 15 points 2 years ago (1 child)

It's deeply ironic the use of an Icelandic singer in a meme to justify participating in the performance of the Theatre Of The Vote in the, unlike in Iceland, far from Democratic American Duopoly system.

Unironic would be to use Putin or some well known Russian figure.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Also, she's an anarchist so I'm not entirely sure this is even the kind of advice she would give.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

    Now you've made me curious. The depths of the interwebs reveal that she says she casts an empty ballot, no reasoning given. Iceland doesn't have compulsory voting.

    Staying in Iceland: Jón Gnarr is also an anarchist and ran for office. Then, I'm an anarchist and the opposite of anti-electoral, if nothing else it's necessary to combat depoliticisation and protect liberal democracy as the stopgap measure it is. Fascists won't stop voting to try and capture the state least you can do is cancel out their vote by voting non-fascist.

    I'm not even sure there's many anti-electoral anarchists around, actually arguing against voting instead of simply personally not voting (which lots of people do for various reasons), practically all the arguments you hear from that side is egg-headed theoretical moralising without reference to praxis.

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