orthogonal to alive @avi@computerfairi.es

White leftists be like: "just forget about race bruh it only exists to divide the working class. black empowerment is exactly the same as white power brosef stop caring so much about race. so divisive, we only have ONE enemy *expresses very surface level analysis of the shortcomings of modern identity politics that only serves to absolve themselves of white guilt and nothing else*"

@intherain @Galdrakinn
When voter turnout was on the decline in the UK (until very recently, well within the living memory of anyone entitled to vote) this was also interpreted as satisfaction with the status quo.

Anyone who imagines that not voting is an effective way of flipping-off capitalism is living in a fantasy world.

@floppyplopper @Galdrakinn In The Great Hack they discussed exactly this technique -- Russian bots in 2016 posing as black activists telling blacks not to vote because it meant participating in a corrupt system, and the same thing happened in Trinidad and Tobago in 2013 with the Do So! movement. An easy (and apparently effective) way to silence people you don't like is to convince them to just not vote.

Voting is your most powerful leverage against a corrupt system.