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Usa has been having elections since 1788 at what point do you think this change you talk about will come about?
Then go cash only and stop paying taxes to a system you don't want to be a part of.
Local chipotle does not accept cash
Then stop participating in the system be the revolutionary you claim to be.
Or...organize and consolidate power amongst the people around you.
A good chunk of us participate in autonomy; growing our own food, going vegan, not participating in blatant consumerism and monopolized economy. There's also quite a few posts that have been...removed.. for talking about "revolutionary actions". You can think about it for maybe two seconds if you pull those brain-cells together why that might be. HMMMMMMM.
But yeah, thought-terminating cliché is the typical response of your kind when confronted with actual agitative ideals. It results in a sort of cognitive dissonance you have where that in order to be a revolutionary you gotta go full Uncle Ted or you're just a illegitimate who doesn't VOOOOOOTE for your bullshit genocidaires.
No one here claims to be a revolutionary. We are an instance for memes and theory, we don't even do organising like a union or a communist party, and we are certainly not a revolutionary cell.
The "stop participating" argument is the most worn card in the deck of the anti-communist debater. Participation in the system is not like seal fur or tropical woods, you cannot live your life in a way that avoids it. Capitalism's total commodification of basic human rights means you cannot even obtain food and shelter or receive life-saving care without taking part in it. Telling someone to "stop participating in the system" amounts to promoting suicide.
Have you actually tried any of your own suggestions?
"stop using credit cards and paying taxes" lol
"Just get a loan (with credit), apply for federal programs that will deny you (with credit), get a cheap mortgage (with credit and bum-fuck nowhere+4 hour commute)"
"What, you don't like that? Stop using credit-cards, commie."
Those in power will never allow those without to simply vote their way out of the traps. Whoever gets voted in later this year will simply be another head of the same monster.
However, the first commenter has merit. We're stuck in this awful system and need to do our best to set ourselves up for success.
Unfortunately, luck plays such a huge part. Sacrifice and save and struggle to put away even a small amount, and one drunk driver can drain your account. No fault of your own, and now you're on the brink of homelessness.
The answer is in no way at the ballot box.
loathesome, he doesn't know which instance we in