• FabledAepitaph@lemmy.world
    224·
    19 days ago

    Yeah, I don’t get the mindset. Voting takes like ten minutes. I’d go as far as to say that you haven’t earned the right to riot until after you’ve voted lol

    • MediumGray@lemmy.ca
      132·
      19 days ago

      Ya, I can not fathom why so much of Lemmy seems to have this inane either/or mindset when it comes to voting and taking other action of any kind as if they were mutually exclusive. The only way I can rationalize it is as a half-assed way of excusing present inaction (because they’ll totally take direct action… as soon as someone else starts it) or some kind of stupid moral purity thing. Those are very uncharitable interpretations though so I try not to assume them to be true. I just don’t have any other good explanations for it.

        • MediumGray@lemmy.ca
          4·
          18 days ago

          I hear you, but even if I’m presented with the options for voting between getting shot in the foot vs shot in the neck, I’m going to vote for getting shot in the foot so I can have a better chance to fight back. It sucks and is stupid that not getting shot isn’t an option presently but voting doesn’t have an opportunity cost so voting for a lesser harm is worth it.

      • FabledAepitaph@lemmy.world
        8·
        18 days ago

        There’s always a greater evil and a lesser evil. One of them is going to win anyways, and your personal protest just lets shit slide further to the right as we’ve seen over the last decade in American politics. Vote and THEN go protest to fight for improvement wherever you can if you’re unhappy about it.