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Hello m@tes. I have immigrated from lemm.ee following the imminent closure, (and needed to but ana in front of my name because the one I used on lemm.ee was taken.)
Here is just a small thing I made after skimming the comments of a recent popular post. As it is a small image and I’m getting better with Krita this one only took ~35 minutes. Improvements. Yay!
I did this in 2016. Still regret it.
Listen, if you can find a local politician that listens, that wants to court the movement, that isn’t allergic to accountability, that is actually literate in that field even as they want to participate, that isn’t bought?
You’ve found a mythical creature. You may as well try to do fantastical things like convince Anarchists to vote.
Other than that? Meh, its casual. Maybe spend an hour in line talking to voters about what they really care about, and loudly complain that no party is addressing the real concerns like Ghost Jobs or Wage Theft. Invite the silly vote-enjoyers to go make sandwiches.
Or don’t.
Just don’t pretend voting (or not) means that much. Go actually do the Mutual Aid.
Some good fucking takes today
WTF is with all these downvotes?!? Y’all need to read this: https://www.indigenousaction.org/voting-is-not-harm-reduction-an-indigenous-perspective/
libs get very salty on this anarchist perspective so they impotently downvote because we took away their right to make smug comments about it.
The state does not care if you participate.
There is no amount of turnout so low that the people with power will go “welp our power isn’t legitimate anymore”
That’s not what anarchists are aiming at all. The point is to put all the effort going into electoral politics, into prefiguration instead. And that is not just enough to delegitimize the state, but to collapse capitalism itself.
Every good thing the government ever gave you, they gave you because either someone else did it first, the government killed them, and they knew there would be riots if they didnt put a half assed replacement in place
Or because they had literal guns to their head, and their first few attempts to kill people olding them didnt work.
Just here to watch the libs label Anarchists as Tankies 🍿
Voting is not the same as approval. We can vote and still rally against the legitimacy of authority.
Yes the state is corrupt, yes the choice is largely superficial. But if we are going to get poison anyway i prefer to exercise any action i can to influence even a little who does the poisoning.
Vote. But also boycott the state.
This is not an either/or, and you should still vote.
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Removing my comment doesn’t make anarchist narratives around elections any less self-defeating.
You can whinge all you want about it, but it’s part of the rules and you are not free to do it literally everywhere else.
As a queer person… voting for sure.
