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To clarify the point of the post for outsiders:
Anti voting is the view that one must not be satisfied with voting, and must do more outside than voting, that is in contrast to the popular perception in which voting is seen as a way to bring about change when in reality it's anything but.
Voting will always work to concentrate power in the hands of the few because the powerful won't let it be anything other than a way to consolidate power, this would be directly against their interest.
Historically change was brought about by protest, struggle and sabotage.
Even in the social democracies in the nordics change was brought about because the struggle in Russia and Ukraine was seen as a threat to the capitalist system, this even fits with expectations as with the fall of the USSR and the veneer of a "socialist state", worker and human rights are being rolled back.
Y'all are gonna be real unhappy with how things work out for the anarchists if Trump wins. Obama was a conservative Democrat and McCain was a center-right Republican; there was a ton of overlap. Between Biden and Trump there is a yawning chasm.
I agree with the protest, struggle and sabotage. Bringing not voting into the equation in this particular election is like refusing to put out your house on fire, because one of the firefighters voted for Ronald Reagan.
Trump wins, my country gets plundered. Biden wins, my country gets plundered. I can't even vote in your stupid elections asshole.
I'm sure a bunch of little Honduran kids who still may never see their real families again are super sympathetic to your "both sides." Trump doesn't fuck things up only for Americans; he has the capacity to hurt a huge number of people pretty much everywhere in the world.
Also, if you didn't want feedback on your opinions as they pertain to the US election, why'd you post a meme with an opinion about the US election?
Biden kept the concentration camps open. What's the difference? The entire point of the meme is imperialism, that nothing has changed since Obama's election, that no matter who wins, imperialism wins. I suppose I can't expect an Americano to understand that.
Biden stopped family separations, tried to reunite the kids with their parents wherever it's even still possible, and he's currently in a fight with the government of Texas because Texas wants to keep their deadly cruelty to helpless migrants alive, and accelerate it, and he's trying to stop them. Trump wants to do mass deportations "on day 1."
But please, keep going with your fascism-apologist rhetoric while pretending that it's somehow anti-Imperialist. I know multiple people the arc of whose lives is radically different because of Obama-era immigration reform, so you're going to have a real hard time convincing me that these things don't matter.
Biden kept the concentration camps open. Any good he's doing is just white wash. Fuck your country.
He also did NOT stop family separations. That's bogus propaganda. He's continued and worsened them.
And his beef with Texas is not that Texas wants to hurt immigrants and Genocide Joe wants to protect them; it's literally a competition between Texas and the feds on who gets to have supreme authority in their sadistic immigrant abuse. I sometimes joke that they'll probably settle their differences by having an immigrant murdering competition and go home at the end of the day to back claps and a round of drinks, no matter the outcome.
Certain brands of liberal bend over fucking backwards to distort reality in order to defend their favorite fascist. Gross. Don't step in that.