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And frankly, even if you're literally portioning rations for the revolution you plan to start tomorrow, the idea of not taking the absolutely minute amount of time, in the grand scheme of things, that it takes to potentially positively affect change is still absurd. If this really was the revolution, then the people's army couldn't afford to leave strategic advantages like that on the table.

Somebody said something to this effect once: Voting isn't about picking which hero is going to save us; it's about picking the kind of villain we have to fight against.

I just don't even understand how this is still a conversation. It's literally not an either/or dichotomy here. All of those things you want to do to prepare for the revolution or whatever? You can still do all of them and vote. You lose absolutely nothing by voting. Zero. It's just such a batshit mentality from the very onset.

Canonical Strawman Leftist™ describing their utopia: “Everyone votes on everything, and we engage in thoughtful discussion to persuade our neighbors to make good choices with their votes.”

Same leftist describing today: “Voting is pointless, and it’s impossible to change anyone’s mind.”

I dislike leftist Seinfeld, even if he'd hate it.

Yeah, punch left some more. Seems to work really well for you guys.

LMFAO OP just tearing through the haters in the comments

Yeah lets blame the voters, not the candidates for not exciting the voter base with actual solutions for issues

In other words.

You can stuff their heads with memes and talking-points all day, get them shouting the party slogans in chorus.

But you can't give them the initiative to actually do something.

(Or to think for themselves for that matter. It rather contradicts the whole stuffed-head thing)

The burden of proof is on revolutionaries. Always!

You not only need to show that your radically new society is a genuine improvement (and won’t collapse into a brutal dictatorship) but also that it’s enough of an improvement to be worth the millions of lives that would be lost during the revolution! Furthermore, you need to show that the new society you propose can accommodate people whose ideology is different from your own.

Assuming that humans will all think and behave the same way has never worked throughout human history. Liberal democracy (and to a lesser extent enlightened monarchy) has been the only time period to accommodate diverse opinions, scientific and economic flourishing, and strong protections for individual liberty (and sexuality) simultaneously with a large population. All of the other systems were either very small (and so relied on the close bonds of kinship and inter-familial relationships) or dominated by brutal despots.

Thus, as much as we hate our current system for its many flaws, it’s so much better than everything that has gone before that the bar has been set very high.