What do you mean by voting working? Do you think voting is useless because your candidates didn’t win? Are you upset Bernie didn’t win and now want to throw out the whole system? Voting works (to some degree, it’s not going to save the world) but so many people don’t even do it we end up forfeiting the game to the right, they vote, that’s why things are going their way. Lots of people died to give you a choice, and you want to give it up thus ensuring you lose?

You must be young if you think Biden’s term is the only “relative peace” we’ve had in living memory. I’m nearly 50, until 2015 during Trump’s campaign there was no threat of fascism in the U.S. after WWII. There were definitely problems, climate change on the horizon but there was some hope. The world was fucked up, but it didn’t make you want to cry every day. LGBT people were gaining rights, too slowly, but it was happening. Now as a trans person I’m worried I’m on a kill list. Things got worse because we lost elections.

Tell me what methods you have to attempt to make things better under a dictator (you don’t think the dictator is going to always or even mostly do what you want do you? What if you’re brown and the dictator wants brown people dead?). If we don’t vote, what do you propose? How do we do it? Who is going to start the revolution? Are you? Even if we win this revolution, what happens after? How do we prevent some dictator from taking over? Seems like every other revolution ended up with the most successful military leaders assuming power and then proceeding to make stupid decisions that wipe out populations, crops, and bird species etc. only to fail resisting the U.S.

You wouldn’t be able to have this conversation under most autocrats without risk of sending your family to decade of hard labor.

Or are you simply a victim of propaganda and think America bad China/Russia good, a stooge that thinks the two richest men on the planet, Putin and Xi are actuallycommunists and actually have your interests in mind LOL!!!