• atro_city@fedia.io
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    1 month ago

    Voting doesn’t change anything.

    *doesn’t vote*

    Things get worse.

    *surprised pikachu*

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      When local elections only have a 20% turnout we actually don’t know if voting works or not

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          When I was a young man, I wanted to change the world.
          I found it was difficult to change the world, so I tried to change my nation.
          When I found I couldn’t change the nation, I began to focus on my town.
          I couldn’t change the town and as an older man, I tried to change my family.

          Now, as an old man, I realize the only thing I can change is myself, and suddenly I realize that if long ago I had changed myself, I could have made an impact on my family.
          My family and I could have made an impact on our town.
          Their impact could have changed the nation and I could indeed have changed the world.

          Rabbi Yisrael Salanter

          There are two lessons here:

          1. Start local. This will have a greater impact on your life anyway. The desire to have a large, world-affecting impact is more likely motivated by a desire for attention and recognition than it is by a desire to help other people.
          2. You cannot force other people to change, and in fact you have no moral ground on which to expect that other people will or should behave the way that you personally think they ought to.
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        Whether or not people care enough to do something is the first and most important factor in determining whether it works or not.

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        tbf the lower the turnout, the more powerful your vote is, so that should be a good reason to vote on its own

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          Yeah unfortunately that’s how minority views (racist bullshit) gets pushed through easily

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    Well I try to do my part by telling the protestors that they’re doing it wrong.

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    Living too comfortably is not the main problem. There problem is when you are struggling. When you are struggling you don’t care about anything else but your immediate circumstances. You are in constant triage. And now and more people are forced into that .

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    This isnt unique to the first world. In fact, I’d argue it’s even more prevalent in many developing countries where government incompetence and corruption is more appearant.1 In places where things like war and famine are in living memory, a shit government can seem like an acceptable tradeoff.

    1. A relative rule of course, the current US executive branch would give any tinpot dictator a run for their money.
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        yeah, I really want to do something. I want to fight back. but my job has taken everything out of me and it’s barely enough to skirt above the line of a depressive state nowadays. I hate how I can’t will myself to fight

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        Also the voter suppression, gerrymandering, court shopping, SCOTUS stacking, propaganda channels…

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      I was just thinking the same thing. :( I’m right there with ya and I know how miserable and sucky it is. I’m sorry. 🫂