this post was submitted on 18 Feb 2026
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Ye Power Trippin' Bastards
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Bro literally made a dogshit post screeching about anti-electorialists in a community that has a rule against screeching about anti-electorialists, and the post got removed for breaking that rule.
The injustice is insane...!
I'd expect such lies from an an electoralist like yourself. Quit obsessing over the Democrats, your ragebait is only helping the bourgeois
Because of cultists like you a lot of people refuse to participate in elections. Why would neither party listen to you if they know you will still vote for them regardless and that thry will win agsin after one or two election
I'm not trying to effect change with my vote, unlike these liberals. I vote to keep the fascists out of the white house while I focus on direct action and community building. These electoralists are trying to send the Democrats a message by not voting, as if those bourgeiosie would ever listen to us plebs.
Is “vote” a new dogwhistle for “lead”
You will always vote for democrats no matter if there is facist or not because you are a cultist. Ask your politicians to start cating about people if you want to stop non voters for not voting. If you don't care about them they won't care about you
I agree. If you don't vote, then on their spreadsheets you're part of the statistic labelled "apolitical". You're talking about sending a message to influence electoralism. The message you're sending is that you're a centrist. So I'll take you at that message and call you a centrist.
And you're the reason they're going further to the right. If there were more leftists in their spreadsheets, they'd be going left. You liberals are the reason for the fascism we're experiencing.
If you keep voting for the two political cults they will never listen to you they know after 1 or 2 elections they will come back and ignores you again. You can't stop facism with the bullshit of the lesser of the two evils
Somehow Vote Blue No Matter Who always ends up with fascism, surely this isn't what they wanted and push for polices that slow/stop fascism. ...Surely.
Clearly the voting is working well, right?
No, you libs keep fucking it up. In 2020 you showed up for Biden, but then you got so mad he wasn't improving things that you decided to withhold your vote, and made everything worse.
Yeah, electorialism is when you talk shit about bourgeois parties on a fundamental level, and anti-electorialism is when you vote blue no matter who. Makes sense!