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If the result of your vote is a genocide it's time to think about the ethics of the continuation of your country.
My country isn't ethical. I don't even need to think about that. Still not going to use my vote to let MORE genocide happen.
Yeah that's obviously not in question. It's unethical to continue to support the country and not start burning it all down lol.
The last decade has only proven that the "burn it down" crowd (who are super active online, but don't show up IRL to vote against fascists) are never going to show up IRL for the revolution.
I saw a bunch of them show up. But then the Democrats started arresting, torturing, and crushing them.
And Democratic voters celebrated it.
Fascism cannot be stopped with your vote. Hitler wasn't elected and he certainly couldn't be removed by election. This is the same for Mussolini, Petain, Franco, Hirohito, etc. We don't "show up" IRL to vote against fascism because we recognize it is a ridiculous exercise in futility. We do show up IRL at our political organizations which lead protests against the Palestinian genocide, fascism, ecocide, the illegal blockade of Cuba and so so much more. Not only do we educate people politically and agitate within our workplaces and community spaces, we (attempt to) build lasting parties that materially provide for the communities they rely on. So far we haven't had great success and overthrown the bourgeois state, that is because things take time and we are faced with both very powerful enemies and a very well conditioned public.
Still too much bread and circuses!