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[USPOL][Quinn Please Don't Read For The Sake Of Your Mental Health Like Seriously This Is On Another Tier Of Doomposting So Do Not Open This Plurk]
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i just
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screams into pillow
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i'm going to reveal myself for exactly the kind of leftie that i am in this plurk but like
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i find the cognitive dissonance between "we have to dismantle this corrupt system headed by a corrupt leader by any means possible" and "we are going to do it by voting" absolutely baffling
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the system of united states governance hasn't been fascist for a few years. it's been fascist since before i was born, it's just been better at hiding it, and now in the information age where news about young Black kids getting murdered by the police and the treatment of the homeless and the eviction of renters while covid is increasing tension
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is just making that more fucking obvious
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the biggest fucking lie of the united states is that there is a difference between [WHICHEVER PARTY IS SUPPOSED TO BE PROGRESSIVE AT THE TIME] and [WHICHEVER PARTY IS SUPPOSED TO BE CONSERVATIVE AT THE TIME] because at the end of the day whichever color leads the system is still leading a system that was designed from the bottom up to oppress and suppress
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it's never been not like this, it's never been fucking BETTER, it's just that the unique pressures of the plague and the rapidly accelerating spread of information beyond news stations have made it blatantly obvious what's going on
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does voting get some stuff done? yeah i'm not going to deny it does
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but the system in which voting takes place fundamentally limits what voting can do
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using our vote we can put representatives in power
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but what those representatives actually do once they're in power is completely out of our hands
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sure we can vote them out once their term is over but the fact remains that we as voters can do jack and shit about legislative, economic, and social policy directly
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we can fucking march in the streets and break shit and make these people scared out of their fucking minds but if they decide to stick to their guns then that's it
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and this doesn't even take into account ALL THE WAYS the vote can be manipulated so that it effectively DOESN'T matter, just take a look at gerrymandering nevermind outright fraud
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the enemy isn't a single fucking person, it's not "there is a CHEETO loose in the WHITE HOUSE" or whatever joke liberal pundits are making nowadays, it's the system that lets people like that get in power, stay in power, and exert that power
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if by some fucking miracle biden wins, and by some act of the heavens above he somehow manages to actually secure the presidency after that, sure his leadership might shoot us in the leg instead of the chest
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but leg wounds are just as fucking fatal as chest wounds
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especially when regardless of where on our bodies we are getting shot we are in a filthy garbage-ridden alleyway, we're already half-dead from other wounds, and the nearest hospital is countries away\
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fundamentally the only tangible difference is if our murderer is smiling and apologizing before they pull the trigger
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it's not "democracy vs. authoritarianism" it's fucking "polite blue authoritarianism vs. impolite red authoritarianism"
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"but doom," you may ask, "what about harm reduction? it's worked in past, with work it'll work now!"
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harm reduction has fundamentally always been fascists giving marginalized people superficial concessions in exchange for not causing riots
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and by superficial i mean superficial
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fucking. 2015. love wins or whatever. cool great we can get married everywhere now yaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyyyyyy
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now where are the rest of our universal rights. seriously, where, i might have missed them.
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where is our healthcare
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where can we donate blood if we've had gay sex
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et cetera et cetera
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i know marriage is very important to a lot of people and i'm not denying that but that's why that was allowed to happen, because fundamentally it does not threaten the power of the people who are still justified in abusing us
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nevermind the horrendous abuses that people of color have been enduring from the system for CENTURIES
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it just takes different more socially acceptable forms as time goes by and more concessions are given to satisfy white allies
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i've actually debated talking about that for a while on this plurk but have been trying to keep it to a minimum because i'm very white and very middle class and have fundamentally no understanding of what Black people go through just by existing and am not qualified to talk about it and i guess
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basically the only thing i can say on the matter is that at least white queer people have the option of hiding our identities from people who want to kill us no matter how shitty it feels
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people of color do not get that option
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a friend pointed out that having trump in a position of power has enabled people to be more openly fucking terrible and abuse marginalized people more and that's definitely true and trump should not be in power
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but i think a fundamental assumption that a lot of people make about extremely hardcore lefties is that we didn't vote (nevermind that i couldn't vote because i was 14 when it happened) in 2016 and every single hardcore leftie i've talked to did, in fact, vote for hillary
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the most radical leftie i know basically gave her entire life to the democratic party from age 14 until 2016
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all of this bullshit in the past 4 years has radicalized us but "wouldacouldashoulda" isn't going to get anywhere and we need to focus on the problems in front of us namely that i sincerely doubt trump is getting his ass out of the oval office even if by all accounts biden wins by a landslide
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and we need to be prepared for when that happens
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idk. i can't vote because my mom lost all my documentation and it's been hell trying to get it back ever since i learned that was the fucking case and i don't think i'll be able to get everything i need to register together in time by the deadline and believe me i have been fucking trying
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and if i could vote i WOULD vote in my local races and for the senate and all that shit
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but as i've detailed before voting for the biden and harris ticket as is feels like shooting my trans siblings in prison and so many other marginalized people in the chest MYSELF
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for something that i am wholeheartedly convinced one way or another is not going to make any difference whatsoever
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idk. i don't think i'm going to open this plurk for responses because last time i made one like this and had to debate people it drove me more crazy than before and this was for the purpose of blowing off steam and letting everyone know exactly where i stand on these matters