There's no action that's acceptable to you that you wouldn't label "armchair activism", other than voting for your genocide candidate. Just be honest with yourself and admit that.
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Excellent answer. We need to compile yours and a bunch of other Marxist critiques of bourgeois "democracy", and how truly effective it is at manufacturing consent and giving the illusion of choice, for capitalist rule.
They aren't "false options", they're printed on the ballot.
I printed two options on my ballot. Give your consent for one of these options!
- Kill Palestinian civilians
- Kill Palestinian civilians
Printing them on there makes it real.
The only way to reject the premise here is actual spontaneous massive revolution, and if you're suggesting that as an alternative to voting, well, I don't imagine you're of voting age anyway.
Standard liberal smugness, decrying the backbreaking efforts and blood spent by hundreds of millions of mostly poor peasants who fought and succeeded in ridding themselves of the scourge of colonialism.
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Someone could take all the answers here and create a copypasta equivalent of fingernails on a chalkboard.
According to Kamala Harris, even black lives matter and the movement against police murder is a russian psyop.
When someone constructs a catch-22, the answer isn't to play their game, it's to build a new one, leave, or at the very least refuse to accept their false options. Genocide is not inevitable, no matter how many US democrats and republicans tell you that it is.
The dems have already rehabilitated GWB, McCain, and Cheney. It's a trueism that the democrats of today are the republicans of 20 years ago.
This was a meme like 6 years ago, that we'd get to the point that US democrats would accept a candidate that's 99% pro-genocide compared to the 100% republican one. It's worked, and now democrats are falling over themselves to defend this genocide and their party's staunch material support for it.
Keep voting tho, its working great so far. The USA keeps improving by doing the same thing over and over again. /s
Really the only difference between the two factions of the US one-party state, is that one is honest about their belief that a few capitalists should own the country and everyone else can starve, and the other is better at PR. Both Obama and Biden's cabinet were hand-picked by citibank for example, and both parties staunchly support genocide, even though the democrats occasionally try to pander to the left on it.