Voting is so separated from policy when everything gets compromised to dysfunction in the name of centrism though.

To me, the most incredible thing was that he didn’t understand how the blues informed the music of Led Zeppelin. I never got past that.

why not do the thing that actually works twice

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Meanwhile, your path to victory is...what? Not voting? Ranting on a forum literally tens of people visit?

I've never considered me voting for the winner to mean that I "won" anything. My record isn't super:

2004 - Kerry
2008 - Obama
2012 - Obama
2016 - Clinton

I'm pretty sure I've said this before, but voting in the Presidential election is kind of useless in terms of "achieving" things. For one thing, I'm in a die-hard blue state in which Biden beat our sitting Senior Senator.

But the big portion is the mid-terms. Who you send to the Senate and the House matters more, because it signals to the parties what the mood in the country is, and 2018 was won by the DSA crowd.

My vote for Biden in November isn't as important as my vote for Markey in September.

If you spend your day promoting voting and don't do anything to promote direct action, it gives the impression that you're more invested in the former than doing anything but vaguely lip servicing the latter.

That's the position I was taking/talking about, yes. I've said before the accelerationist approach is the only one where reelecting Trump makes any sense. I'm not saying that's what I believe but that was what I was referring to.

Richard Wolff can say what he likes and he's a talented propagandist but so far that's not the lesson history teaches.

Marx was writing excitedly about revolution on the backs of the industrial prole masses in 1848 as an impending future. We're now in 2020 and not only are we sufficiently industrialized... We're several decades into post industrialization when Marx's portrait of commerce becomes more antiquated by the hour.

Yeah, Elph. You need to phrase it in such a way that Frownland approves or you're a fascist.

Nah I don't think he's a fascist, he's being dishonest with us and/or himself. Plus if you look at my post, it's more about comparing action to barking than any phrasing flaws.

The length of time that it takes to vote, cool guys saying you should vote, how easy it is to vote and do something that actually makes a difference in the same day are not relevant to the efficacy of voting or the morality of playing a role in perpetuating evil either.