Just a friendly reminder

No single thing alone will fix the world. Voting alone won't fix it. Throwing a molotov alone won't fix it.
Voting (in many places, for many people) takes almost no effort. Go do it. But don't call it a day and think you've done everything you can do. Refusing to vote just yields one of the many fronts in this conflict without a fight.
- Voting (in many places, for many people) takes almost no effort
  The voting apparatus takes immense effort in fact. It takes so much effort that it's almost all consuming for most nations during the election period and wastes thousands of human-workhours.
  
  I meant the amount of effort it takes for the end user.
  If we're going to talk about higher order levels of effort, then everything gets very expensive very quickly.
- Throwing a molotov alone won't fix it.
  But the right firebomb, at the right target, at the right time, might just change the world.
  
  True, true. Saint Luigi inspired people. But that alone didn't fix the world, and it's a very chaotic move.
  
  Yup ww1 started over a single gunshot
  
  Have we tried finding Franz Ferdinand?
  
  Please keep in mind that "change the world" does not necessarily mean "for the better", and I have no doubt these cretins are looking for their Reichstag.
- Yes throwing a Molotov won't fix it. Throwing 30 million on the other hand...
- the changes we need to fix things can't be made by elected officials. if voting would do anything, it would have done something 20 years ago.
  direct action works regardless of who is elected. why do i even have to argue this, i thought this was an anarchist comm?
- How bout voting for throwing a Molotov cocktails?

- The courts can't help you, even if they wanted (they don't)
  
  Can't they still slam Trump? /s

You think the 90M people that couldn’t be bothered to vote against fascism are going to take to the streets and fight?
- Electoral voting is useless and built to disenfranchise and demotivate people participating from politics. Doing direct action immediately improves your life and builds mutual aid networks. So yes.
  
  It’s useless, yet it’s exactly why we have a fascist dictator? That’s tautological.
- It doesn't take 90M people to blow up a pipeline.
- Can you point to a single US election where the half the country that never votes magically showed up to vote?
  If not maybe don't rely on a group of people that will never participate.

I'm very disappointed with Biden's administration for not charging more people in Trump's first term for the crimes they committed. They didn't face any consequences the last time and will now be completely off the rails. Now we have a second Trump administration with most of the same people that now know they can get away with anything.
- The problem is that US democracy consists of voting for either a conservative party (Democrats) or a fascist party (Republicans).
  When the conservatives are in power they care most about preserving the appearance of legitimacy of institutions and they don't do anything like arresting politicians or stuffing the supreme court even though it would strengthen democracy.
  Then the fascists get in and destroy everything anyway.
- I'm very disappointed with Biden's administration for committing genocide.

Everyone agitating for an overthrow of the system through memes is going to get out there and start doing it any day now just you wait...
Aaaaaaaany day now...
- True. What works best is being a smug "nothing ever happens" lib online and doing one political action every 4 years.
  
  I mean, that's what this amounts to. So yeah, I agree.
  Edit: sorry, that's to say I agree with sarcasm dripping from your reply.
- TBF thats exactly what happened with Trump.
  
  QAnon, dude. Wtf.

Naming my future gun "the ballot box"
In minecraft
- People that have everything will not let it go without violence.
  PvP will be required ... in Minecraft.

But we did vote our way into it, didn't we?
- Only sorta. The only election the nazis won outright was after they had basically already seized power. Prior to that there was an alliance between the moderate right/business elites and the nazis where the moderate right wanted to use the far right to win and thought they could control Hitler but then he just used the little power they gave him to take more and...ok it's exactly like right now.
- Yes, but that was kinda like forgetting your keys inside on a windy day and you are currently hearing the front door slamming shut.
- Yes. You voted for voting to not work anymore.
  
  I sure as fuck didn't. And I'm not going to sit idly by while we slip into fascism, either.
- Technically speaking, we abstained our way into it.

You are not getting out of this by voting ALONE,
#but you still must also vote, at EVERY CHANCE

Soap box
Ballot box
Ammo box
If they deny the midterms, overturn the results or refuse to acknowledge their loss, that is the natural next step. People still believe in the power of popular sovereignty

Apathy is what got us here
- Avarice and individualism got here.
  To the point many still consider both to be strengths and not the weaknesses they are.

Not now you're not.

Oh, I see the psyop is hard at work already. "No, don't vote, it's useless, don't even bother, leave it to those suckers who are doing this stupid ineffective voting thing. Oh, they have all the power all of the sudden? Who knew, no idea how that happened"
- Don't badjacket. Just because we don't believe in the electoral farce doesn't make us a paid actor.
  
  That's true, some people repeat the same points for free. This is also bad, it leads to bad outcomes.

Good thing they've got guns to stop terrorist organizations such as ICE. I'm curious when we'll hear about them being shot at, or worse, though.

What worries me is that I wasn’t sure if this was for the US or Canada given our upcoming election.
- Probably Canada I assume, given the debate is today.
  Though continuing mass immigration to fill a labor shortage caused by QE and the phillips curve is not helping the poor, you cant pretend to help the poor while pushing up asset prices for the rich. Calling anyone questioning immigration a racist is a neat trick by progressives to justify UN defined slave labor.

When they start closing embassies is when you start pouring gasoline into whiskey bottles.

Here's your friendly reminder: "The. Majority. Of. Us. Don't. Give. A. Fuck. What's. Happening. In. Your. Country."
- What country is this about? Is it mine? Did I miss anything?

We could've.
- If you weren't impressionable fuckin idiots

We could have. Since we didn't I don't care anymore and I resent the implication that because other people failed I have to keep toiling.
I'm barely fueled by spite at this point. I mostly feel nothing. I just don't care about shit anymore.
But I also don't seem to be deriving enjoyment from entertainment anymore either. So I'm still fucking here talking to you people.

Lock and load!

You have to, whether you expect it to work or not.

You had the chance to but didn't protest-non-voters.

Perfectly true.
But anarchism hasn't exactly been very productive over the last century when it comes to providing alternatives, has it?
- Anarchism has been very productive in improving the lives of those who practice it. Bringing about things like the 40-hour week. Anarchism doesn't have to become the sociopolitical system to be beneficial. Look into prefiguration and also look at the comm rules.
  
  Bringing about things like the 40-hour week.
  Can you show me anywhere in the world where anarchism is as strongly represented in labor movements as it was in Spain during the 1930s?
  Looking at the past does not make the present any better.
  Anarchism doesn’t have to become the sociopolitical system to be beneficial.
  So what should it be then? A vanguard in everything but name?
  Look into prefiguration
  I'd love to... but where is it? Every time I ask anarchists this, they point me to social projects such as that happening in northern Syria and Chiappas in Mexico - social projects that reject the anarchist label. And I don't exactly blame them for rejecting it, either - trying to "preconfigure" something when your theory is too damn orthodox to even allow you to understand what "preconfiguring" should actually look like is a pretty obvious sociopolitical dead-end.
- Anarchists saved and improved countless lives in the last few years by doing direct action. They rescue(d) and support(ed) refugees, fed people all over the world, setup bail funds and so much more.
  Actually impacting other peoples lives (and your oen) directly is a pretty appealing alternative imo.
  
  They rescue(d) and support(ed) refugees, fed people all over the world, setup bail funds and so much more.
  This is all great - but lots of organizations and movements are doing direct action of all kinds. Can you seriously tell me that this represents a functional political movement that would be capable of surviving and thriving if a convulsive revolution were to kick off tomorrow?
- what a shitty and irrelevant argument
- Who said anything about anarchism? I'd be happy to just get democracy back.
  
  I’d be happy to just get democracy back.
  When did we have democracy?