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Being defeatist speeds up the defeat.
Yup, staying home on Election Day because of genocide leads to defeat.
What about now, are you gonna live up to your ideals and be involved, or live up to their preconceptions of liberals and only do politics on election day?
We both know the answer 😂
Involved in what way?
What do you mean by “only do politics on Election Day”
Contact local BIPOC and other radical political groups in your area. Learn the plans they've had to fight systems of oppression as they've been at this for a lot longer than the election cycle. Learn how you can help, and what you offer, even if it's just a body or a skin tone. Learn all the different facets of anti-state action and find your place in an organized group.
These fights have been going on longer then either of us has been alive, and almost all of the fight is done outside the ballet box, so the I am genuinely asking, are you willing to commit to what you seem to believe and do something outside? Because I think you know, arguing on some tiny sliver of a fraction of the internet isn't meaningful fighting. So find the people in your community that are meaningfully fighting in whatever way they can and join them. Please.
They're referring to how you joined the conversation with "what choice do we have?" (a defeatist attitude) and proceeded to complain that we're here because of leftists staying home on election day leading to defeat.
Their point was that, maybe we're defeated not because people didn't come out on a single day to vote, but because they said "what choice do we have?" on all the other days.