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Not voting is dumb. Might as well drown if you don't.
Voting doesn't get meaningful change, because it's designed not to be able to. That doesn't mean our hands our tied, we can roll up our sleeves and get organized. Collective power is the working class's strongest tool, and it's magnified when we all work in the same direction. Revolution is possible and necessary.
I would say voting for those working against your interests is even dumber
in other words: the only allowed political action to be committed under capitalism is voting. we have to pretend we are challenging the status quo without doing anything at all right?
Voting is the first and easiest step, right?
In scenarios where it does not seem to save you from drowning, What is to be done?
Yeah exactly. Voting is 20 minutes out of one day once a year if you're super active. It doesn't hinder any other efforts and it doesn't diminish all the other work you can and should be doing the other 364 days 23 hours and 40 minutes. Maybe you can spend that 40 minutes learning about the candidates to have a more informed vote. It's just a stinky thing you do to try and put the lesser of two evils in.
It also wouldn't take much time for me to pray once or twice a day, but what's it supposed to actually accomplish?
Actually, further entrenching a right-wing genocidal party of geriatric oligarchs does hinder other efforts. Further normalising and legitimising the ever-expanding fascist police-state does hinder other efforts.
Or, following your logic, it would be more useful to do something like vote third party.
Voting for genocidal bigots is dumber