• ZMoney@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    The idea that not voting is some form of protest that has material consequences for the ruling class is ahistorical. It took centuries of struggle to attain universal suffrage. The people in power are perfectly happy to have only a small fraction of the demos exerting any political power at all; in fact this is how most civilizations have functioned for the past few thousand years.

    • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      Know what else is ahistorical? The idea that genocide = genocide = genocide, and that there aren’t levels to this.

      These people don’t know or care about history.