cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/15032962

Alt text: a screenshot of a microblog post with the text “you walking down an alleyway with a gram of weed in your pocket, who would you rather catch you?” Below are two pictures side by side. One of Kamala Harris and the other of Batman.

  • nublug@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    11·
    3 months ago

    enforcing a ‘don’t talk about voting ever, only encourage not voting’ anarchist community is sus af. not voting isn’t gonna make the govt disappear. not voting is just laying down and saying ‘do with me what you will’. not voting, especially from anarchists, inevitably gives more weight to explicitly fascist votes. i’d like a world without goverment as well, but we aren’t gonna get there not voting nor by banning people from anarchist spaces who advocate for slowing the rise of more violent fascism. material conditions, bud.

    • nickwitha_k (he/him)@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
      4·
      3 months ago

      enforcing a ‘don’t talk about voting ever, only encourage not voting’ anarchist community is sus af.

      Yeah… That kind of action does not really say “acting in good faith” or seem like supporting anarchic philosophy.

        • nickwitha_k (he/him)@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
          3·
          3 months ago

          “Anarchism is when vote”

          In some forms, when needed, yes. See: anarcho-syndicalism.

          What is contrary to most anarchic philosophy is using power over others to suppress voices that express dissent in good faith. In fact, I can’t think of a branch of anarchism where that’s not outright contradictory to central tenets of the philosophy.

          • Ranger@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOPMEnglish
            3·
            3 months ago

            In some forms, when needed, yes. See: anarcho-syndicalism.

            Yes.

            But how does that even resemble the electoral system we have? I don’t tell people to vote or not & I don’t tell people who to vote for. You all can decided that for yourselves, I’m not your master. The no electioneering rule exist for a few reasons one being to stop drive by comments from people who have zero interest in anarchism from overwhelming people who do & it’s not uncommon in anarchist spaces.

    • Ranger@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOPMEnglish
      3·
      3 months ago

      Yes totally that one rule in this little corner of Lemmy is totally the driving force behind the rise of fascism.

    • Superb@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      1·
      3 months ago

      This is the same problem that libertyhub has, its sus as hell there too.

      I get not wanting straight propaganda or canvassing, but no one is allowed to push back when you say don’t vote? Its just sucks :/

      • Ranger@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOPMEnglish
        2·
        3 months ago

        Who said don’t vote?

        Edit: I don’t tell people to or not to vote you’re all grown up people that can decided that for yourselves.