He was socialistic, yes didn't believe in party alignment, and yet even though he disagreed with them, and was critical of, he most likely voted JFK and confirmed his vote for Johnson the oogaboogey blue candidates.

But that's not what I was speaking on, and he was not speaking on blind party alignment in that quote, he is literally just calling out moderates. Rightly so, he still voted for them tho. ^

Engaging with the theater benefits media companies (a.k.a. those in power). They make fat cash from the spectacle.

That's what you're trying to distract from.

both bad amirite

if "both sides" genocide palestine, voting or not changes nothing for palestinians, right? so go block a station or something and then cast the ballot

also who do you think put kamala there? vote at primaries too

once again, you're pushing a false dichotomy

this is bait, i swear you can turn off the tv and log off. as far as i know voting in the US does not include mandatory watching of state propaganda and cheering for the leader.

i fully endorse disengaging from propaganda machines, turns out telling folks that nothing makes a difference anyway is propaganda ("climate doomerism" may be an interesting and related read)

this is the only good argument against voting in this thread honestly, it's a shame it's somewhat low, thanks for your input

i don't think not voting creates enough awareness at such scale. HK was a great example of protest abstention, but the main difference IMO is the dimensions: HK being somewhat geographically small compared to a whole country allows for efficient grassroots protests. coordinating such an effort at state level is incredibly ambitious to me, and as long as US folks keep bowing to their state i find it unthinkable that they could organize so properly and so swiftly to make not voting an efficient political action. thus i think defensive voting is better than not voting at all. i'll be more prone to protest abstention once either the US starts burning stuff for real (france is a good example) or the US empire fragments enough to be "local". rolling over and letting things be just allows the state to consolidate power, only strengthening the empire

if “both sides” genocide palestine, voting or not changes nothing for palestinians, right? so go block a station or something and then cast the ballot

I'm not an Amerikan. Your voting enables genocide and you justify that by writing off Palestinians.

also who do you think put kamala there?

There wasn't even a primary for her lol

kamala wasn't nominated in the primary.