• leftofjillstein@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    The Lord won’t help us on this one; we need to be the ones to fight for what we demand.

    The civil rights movements happened because people were fed up with the status quo.

    • breakingcups@lemmy.world
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      1 month ago

      How is giving your vote to whoever becomes the largest by not voting winning anything? You can do all the other things you mentioned and still make a conscious choice to do the least harm by not voting a demagogue in. It’s just one of the many steps you can take as a person wishing to influence the world around you.

      Just like eating no meat or less meat. Will it fix everything wrong with farming? No. Does that mean you should just start buying more meat and not eat it, letting it rot in your fridge instead? Also no! No one cares if you did that and it accomplishes nothing except make the problem much worse, which is exactly what not voting gets you.