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this post was submitted on 03 May 2026
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Voting = being a liberal
I don't trust anyone's opinions if they try to convince people not to vote. It's literally the most baseline minimal form of activism you can do. It's not a right, left, capitalist or communist action, so I'm not sure why you think it's a bad thing to vote.
I've heard people say that the people who didn't vote should count as people who voted for Trump because they "let this happen" but still will say that not voting somehow is a baller left tactic. If it was such a great idea, why is the right trying to make it harder for people? And more importantly, why are you promoting the idea that the right wants?
Because we should simply refuse to participate in an inherently genocidal system. Reject the notion that it even remotely represents us.
Because capital has factions. The right wing of capital wants to make it harder for the left wing of capital to get their way. The leftist view is: reject capital in all its forms. Leftists are not literally right-contrarians, i.e. do what the right tells us they don't want. This would make leftists manipulable. Rightists are notorious liars.
You're conflating the opinions of two diametrically opposed camps of people.
The right wants us to fuck off and die. How that gets achieved is subject to debate within their circles. The right most certainly does not want us to give them the wall. The right most certainly does not want us to develop dual power, take direct action to right the wrongs of capitalism, do mutual aid and community defense, and generally live outside their imposed norms and morality. If the right wing of capital has to lose at all, they would rather lose to the left wing of capital, for a simple reason: they understand that losing to the left wing of capital is neither permanent nor substantiative.