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dont forget to vote! it does nothing but dont forget anyways! (lemmy.ml)

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[-] QinShiHuangsShlong@lemmy.ml 26 points 1 day ago

If you’re from outside the US, then what’s your stake in this?

I don't know maybe the fact that the us is a giant murderous empire that kills thousands(+) every year through direct military action and indirectly through financial warfare and has destroyed multiple countries? Really confirming Americans don't see people outside euroamerika as human.

I was talking to the fuckface saying that both parties are equivalent

Which party destroyed Libya? Which party oversaw and supported the beginning of this current escalation to overt genocide in Palestine? Which party filled Serbia with depleted uranium that continues to have negative effects in health outcomes to this day? Which party oversaw the drone strikes on weddings and innocents in Yemen and across the middle east?

I could keep going and also talk about the bi-partisan enforcement of sanctions that kill thousands(+) every year, or the backsites like Guantanamo that continue to run under both parties and so on.

[-] PrejudicedKettle@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Ok, then why is it better not to vote? Or are you saying it's better to vote republican?

Which action, in regards to voting, improves this situation?

[-] QinShiHuangsShlong@lemmy.ml 19 points 1 day ago

Voting or not voting in America is irrelevant one is not better than the other. Your vote means nothing you have a uniparty that works for the interest of a ruling class to which they have given 2 names. I often wish Americans would remember how change was truly affected by groups like the Suffragettes, and those that made up movements like the labour movements and civil rights movement etc (hint: it wasn't by voting for 99.9% Hitler). If they would start seeing people outside euroamerika as equal humans that would be nice too but I can only live and hope.

[-] PrejudicedKettle@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

If both are equivalent, then why did you ask me to go fuck myself?

[-] QinShiHuangsShlong@lemmy.ml 14 points 1 day ago

Voting and not voting are equally meaningless actions, pushing voting as something important and the democrats as something to strive for is bullshit that only serves to obscure reality and help perpetuate the status quo that is built on the mass exploitation and murder of those of us outside the empire.