• TokenBoomer@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    “If voting changed anything, they’d make it illegal.” — Emma Goldman

    If you don’t know who she is, I’d recommend you spend part of your day finding out. A remarkable woman they don’t want you to remember.

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      If voting didn’t change things. They wouldn’t be working so hard to take away the ability or right to vote from certain groups. Or negate their votes. Voting matters. But so does who’s counting. It’s an uphill battle. But there are almost no better battles to be fighting.

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        That must be why things are getting better. They’ll let you vote for culture war policy, but not economic policy. The battle in the streets is where real change happens. Protests. Strikes, organizing, unions. That’s what scare the capitalists. Hypothetically, if we overwhelmingly voted for Socialism, you think they would allow that?