• Awoo [she/her]@hexbear.net
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    10 days ago

    Legitimising a system where the only two choices both support a genocide is bad actually. There is a third choice - not doing that.

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      10 days ago

      Your county commissioner and school board director probably don’t have much to do with the genocide, but a lot of these elections are literally “schoolteacher” vs “guy who thinks girls shouldn’t be taught to read” in places and I think taking a stand in those cases is worth it.

      Local elections usually have a lot less people with party affiliations too.

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        10 days ago

        You are giving a mandate to a genocide.

        You can rationalise this all you want to pretend you’re not a bad person but choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.

        The correct position, and the position that every Palestinian I’ve actually spoken to has, is that you should reject the system and regime entirely. Not legitimise it by participating.

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          Letting our children be educated into being chuds and destroying local social services by not voting isn’t gonna lead to communism.

          Step 1: Don’t vote in local elections
          Step 2: Voting rates hit some arbitrary low number, deligitimizing democracy
          Step 3: ???
          Step 4: We achieve communism or force a ceasefire?

          I don’t know, I just don’t see it. It’s no more logical than the Nazis attacking a transformer to make race war happen. I’m not even saying vote for Kamala, but throwing my ballot initiative to legalize abortion just doesn’t make sense unless you’re an accelerationist.

      • newacctidk [none/use name]@hexbear.netOP
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        i mean do check that though. Cause damn good chance a school board director in your zipcode suspended a student for being Palestinian or Arab in the vicinity of zionists. If you are voting locally it should be even more discerning than ever and probably be someone who can speak to directly