#im not articulate and i never can get my butt to protests but im fucking trying yknow?

[macrocosmus]

I don’t know how to properly express how I fucking hate how some folks talk about voting as this end all be all while also acknowledging that yeah, I am voting in every election.

I will engage with the system but I don’t trust it for a fucking second and it’s appalling that folks do.

So sure, vote, but maybe also form a union, strike, protest, riot, contribute to bail funds, take part in mutual aid, support strikers protesters and rioters, support counter protests, write to your representatives, read something off the anarchist library website, go to your local library, volunteer, be outspoken, call out shit, make graffiti, cover up fashie graffiti, find your local food banks and help out, educate folks about propaganda and fascism, play punk and commie music, anything

I know folks can do everything, but if voting is your end all be all political engagement... fuck

voting is harm reduction at best

#maybe I'll regret posting this #whatever #im not articulate and i never can get my butt to protests but im fucking trying yknow? #like everyone is saying we gotta vote to keep the good rolling from this administration #and im just here looking at half measures and people not reading past headlines #call me fucking cynical and jaded but like #buddy theres a better world out there #theres a bright future and if you're fixated on voting and throw your faith in the system like it sounds like you do... #do you even know what that brighter future will look like? #*plays Emma Goldman Would Have Beat Your Ass and smokes too much* #listen you dont gotta be like me #heck you might even be better #but like fuck #if you don't vote you're dooming us to these conservatives is so fucking annoying to listen to #you sound like a fucking liberal who went from screaming about kids in cages to simply shrugging and asking where else should we put them #im voting because its the least i can do #and yeah it does fucking help a bit #but get out of my fucking ass about it trying to doomsay me into it #you should duckduckgo image search for ratchet effect politics #maybe that'll learn you something #ALSO #i dont understand how negotiating shit actually works but i know that to get what you want you have to ask for more and #im forced to vote for fuckers who dont seem to understand that #or understand that and want to get less #wheres that simpsons screencaps of the two parties' national conventions #anyway #i've been ralmbing in the tags for long enough #if you made it this far in the tags tell me why