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    21 hours ago

    Years ago in the UK people elected ukip for our EU representation as a protest vote. There are famously anti EU.

    As a result they skipped important votes and really fucked us.

    And I thought that was ridiculous.

  • Guy Dudeman@lemmy.world
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    21 hours ago

    No, no. They just REALLY REALLY care about genocide. Haven’t you talked to any of them? IF you vote, you’re voting for genocide, so you better not vote! Voting is for fascists, obviously.

  • PlasticExistence@lemmy.world
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    Nihilists! Fuck me. I mean, say what you want about the tenets of National Socialism, Dude, at least it’s an ethos.

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    Everybody please go vote! That said, I just don’t think it is nihilism.

    Some of it is accelerationism - the idea that the worse the ruling class treat people they closer society gets to a revolution that will improve things drastically more than voting for dems would. I think that’s flawed, but it’s not nihilism.

    A lot of it is propaganda. Oligarchs on both sides of the bering straight have been ploughing cash into amplifying any messaging that will depress left turnout. This isn’t nihilism, it works because people believe things - we are social primates and conforming with a group is essential for our survival.

    And a small amount is people who have legitimate emotional reasons, like relatives killed in israel’s genocide. Not voting doesn’t help that situation, but that emotional reality is not nihilism.

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    54 minutes ago

    Being a nihilist does not make you self defeatist. I’m a nihilist, and I still believe in cosmopolitanism. I’m voting Kamala and then protesting immediately after. That’s the nature of the two party system. I’m alive, I’m a person, and I give my life and those things meaning. We can still fight.

    I think the big issue is that a lot of people feel like their vote doesn’t matter because they’re not in a swing state. They definitely matter, especially locally.

    Edit: well today fucking sucks