• Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
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    5 days ago

    The study directly shows a negative correlation between those who believe the system represents a valid path to change, and those who organize against the system. This is my point. I did not say “people who vote will organize less,” I said funelling people into electoralism and treating it as the primary means of change deflates revolutionary organizing. These are distinct and separate points, and since you cannot argue against my actual point, you make up strawmen.

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      5 days ago

      Further, when people treat voting as their primary means of political engagement, they do check out!

      That’s your quote

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        Yep! I never said voting causes apathy, I pointed to the way people treat voting as a cause of apathy towards organizing. Critical distinction!