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Funny how lots of people are suddenly vocal about not voting here on Lemmy, an almost exclusively left-leaning platform.
Gee, could there be an election soon?
There’s no “suddenly,” because nothing has changed. We’ve been here the whole time saying the same things.
And I seldom see people say to not vote. Mostly they say that voting does little to nothing, and that we can’t vote our way to socialism.
Blueanon shitlibs assume that the world only exists for the brief time they come out of their torper every election
Leftists have not meaningfully increased revolutionary rhetoric based on the Statesian electoral cycle. You may tune out more whenever elections aren't around the corner, but revolutionary socialists have consistently pushed people to organize precisely because it doesn't depend on the electoral cycle to work.
Liberals when you point out the demonic human cost of their sociopath politics: "I will now imply or outright state that you are an agent of a foreign conspiracy to undermine The Nation, or perhaps a literal unthinking machine. I'm the opposite of a fascist btw."
"Funny how there's suddenly all these guys wearing orange vests in the woods, gee could it be hunting season?" yeah dude, it's almost like whatever is up in the zeitgeist gets discussed more often. Next you'll notice how when you take an action, there is a reaction.
Also, people are pretty vocal about not voting for dems most of the time. You only notice every two years when mainstream media primes your brain to care about politics.