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Hello m@tes. I have immigrated from lemm.ee following the imminent closure, (and needed to but ana in front of my name because the one I used on lemm.ee was taken.)
Here is just a small thing I made after skimming the comments of a recent popular post. As it is a small image and I’m getting better with Krita this one only took ~35 minutes. Improvements. Yay!
The state does not care if you participate.
There is no amount of turnout so low that the people with power will go “welp our power isn’t legitimate anymore”
Every good thing the government ever gave you, they gave you because either someone else did it first, the government killed them, and they knew there would be riots if they didnt put a half assed replacement in place
Or because they had literal guns to their head, and their first few attempts to kill people olding them didnt work.
That’s not what anarchists are aiming at all. The point is to put all the effort going into electoral politics, into prefiguration instead. And that is not just enough to delegitimize the state, but to collapse capitalism itself.
I meet with an anarchist group and do mutual aid making food to give out once a week. I vote once a year maybe. Idk why it’s that hard to do both. It’s 52 times 6 hours doing mutual aid vs like 30 minutes at an early voting station. Idk why people can’t walk and chew gum, the voting is effortless compared to the mutual aid
Because election is not just once you going to vote. There’s an immense voting apparatus which burns millions of volunteer work hours, civic goodwill and mental health. I swear people are incapable of seeing the forest for the trees on this issue.