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Electoral politics are the lowest form of politics. I assume everyone here understands that. You should be looking to other strategies to influence politics and ask yourself “under which president would that strategy be easier?”. That should be your primary metric. All these other arguments are either purely emotional or predicated on the idea that electoralism is still viable.
PS: this is only relevant for voters in swing states. Otherwise vote green or psl or whatever.
First off, I’m stealing “depressor espresso”. Condolences to the original author.
Second, my two cents - and I have no idea if this is relevant to you or not - is if you’re relying on social media for your socialization then logging off will be much harder and less rewarding because everyone needs socialization. Usually I’d say go do intermural sports or shit but theres a pandemic soooo… maybe we should start gaming circles but prohibiting twitter discourse. I dont have thr bandwidthbfor that but ill throw it to the ether.
What is the material/strategic benefit to not voting? We’re adults enough to acknowledge that voting isn’t a valid strategy to save us. But it is a valid tactic for helping other strategies. It be nice if we didn’t have to worry about the president giving the go ahead for cops to kill Union organizers.
Well the reason why they like latam socialists so much is the get popularly elected to power which still remains a strategy for DSA national. Local chapters tend to understand they need external organizations.
Reminds me of when people were mad at Iowa DSA chapters during 2019 primary when they were doing tenant organizing instead of canvassing for Bernie.
xos4 Terminus or Terminus TTF with anti alias off.
In Highschool we had to do a report on the lyrics of a song of our choice. But it had to be “real music”, not rap, unless it was Eminem.
This is mostly good info but start with trying to get at least 1 of 2 of your neighbors on your side first and committed to your goal first. No one ever organized a union solo
Also don’t go to PSL or IWW directly. Theres all sorts of socialist groups made explicitly for forming tenants unions. Autonomous Tenants Union is the only national group I know of. Scan Facebook for local radical tenants rights groups first. Usually those people will also be involved with groups like the IWW, DSA, or PSL.