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mycodesucks @lemmy.world

7mo ago

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Years ago in the UK people elected ukip for our EU representation as a protest vote. There are famously anti EU.
As a result they skipped important votes and really fucked us.
And I thought that was ridiculous.
- Protest votes make zero sense! You're always fucking yourself over.
  In the latest UK general election I knew I couldn't vote for the 3rd party because of FPTP, so I voted for the major party whose policies represented me the most.
  I'm not happy with some of their decisions, but overral it could have been a lot worse.

No, no. They just REALLY REALLY care about genocide. Haven't you talked to any of them? IF you vote, you're voting for genocide, so you better not vote! Voting is for fascists, obviously.
- They care about accelerating the fascist takeover so that they can cosplay their little communist revolution, while ignoring the fact that they can't fight against bunker busters and knife missiles.
- Remember how genocide came up out of nowhere in any topic? Remember how Nort Koreea normal country kept coming up? Remember how Azov nazi used to come up?
  Be on the look out for a general shitting on americans for their choice. And then, look at the post history.
- I care a lot about genocide but I voted
  Voted for Claudia de la Cruz
  (Not that Harris had a chance in hell in Florida)

Nihilists! Fuck me. I mean, say what you want about the tenets of National Socialism, Dude, at least it's an ethos.
- The Dude abides.

Everybody please go vote! That said, I just don't think it is nihilism.
Some of it is accelerationism - the idea that the worse the ruling class treat people they closer society gets to a revolution that will improve things drastically more than voting for dems would. I think that's flawed, but it's not nihilism.
A lot of it is propaganda. Oligarchs on both sides of the bering straight have been ploughing cash into amplifying any messaging that will depress left turnout. This isn't nihilism, it works because people believe things - we are social primates and conforming with a group is essential for our survival.
And a small amount is people who have legitimate emotional reasons, like relatives killed in israel's genocide. Not voting doesn't help that situation, but that emotional reality is not nihilism.

Even a nihilist would lift a pinky finger to stop a good friend from getting blown up.

psh, don't bad-mouth nihilists
- Why, what does it matter?
  
  Nihilsm is philosophy, whether someone derives meaning from it is unrelated to politics.
- Why can I only think of The Simpsons right now?

That's being unfair to the poor nihilists.

Being a nihilist does not make you self defeatist. I'm a nihilist, and I still believe in cosmopolitanism. I'm voting Kamala and then protesting immediately after. That's the nature of the two party system. I'm alive, I'm a person, and I give my life and those things meaning. We can still fight.
I think the big issue is that a lot of people feel like their vote doesn't matter because they're not in a swing state. They definitely matter, especially locally.
Edit: well today fucking sucks

Just super stoked about warm water ports
- Like Corpus Christi? Or San Diego?
  
  Da, I mean yes

I'm a nihilist and I voted.
- Same here. Just because I believe nothing matters, doesn't mean I want other people to suffer.
  Nihilism ≠ Hate

Right-wingers, more like.
- I don't think the Russian trolls are ideologically disposed to anything except rubles.

Ve vote for nossing!

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