I protest, I’m in a political party, I phone bank, I donate, I march, I vote, I post and make memes, what else do people want? What’s the yellow guy doing besides whining and apparently not voting?
If you think the revolution is starting please kindly point me to my local resistance sign up station.
Internet leftists don’t have any real plans of action for how to systematically fight facism, no strong political voices to rally behind. They talk about a General Strike as though one will just magically form on its own without planning, discussion, leadership, support networks, and so on.
Go touch some grass, then vote, then join people in your community and workplace who are actually organizing as a group to do something. No individual action will solve this crisis.
You aren’t wrong. TBF, it is a comic remarking at the broad ways our system directs us to feel and think. Comics typically aren’t about nuanced discussion but rather a blunt point. Our political discourse driven by corporate media does focus on voting as the only systematic driver for change edit(as well as creating) a paralyzing despair. More MUST be put into the other levers of democracy, as you point out.
Because the comic didn’t mention those things, which are how you actually do some democracy in the face of hostile anti-democratic forces.
What point is the comic trying to make exactly? That voting isn’t enough. What alternatives does it suggest? Nothing. It doesn’t offer anything except a whining troll who seems to be encouraging a moralizing stance about the non-utility of voting with no alternatives. Almost like the point of this comic is to erode democratic ideas by making it seem like the only things people care about are voting and moralizing.
I protest, I’m in a political party, I phone bank, I donate, I march, I vote, I post and make memes, what else do people want? What’s the yellow guy doing besides whining and apparently not voting?
If you think the revolution is starting please kindly point me to my local resistance sign up station.
Internet leftists don’t have any real plans of action for how to systematically fight facism, no strong political voices to rally behind. They talk about a General Strike as though one will just magically form on its own without planning, discussion, leadership, support networks, and so on.
Go touch some grass, then vote, then join people in your community and workplace who are actually organizing as a group to do something. No individual action will solve this crisis.
You summed up my thoughts except the fact is im not going to go out and kill folks even if the revolution has started but I might lay down my life.
Thank you for your service
You aren’t wrong. TBF, it is a comic remarking at the broad ways our system directs us to feel and think. Comics typically aren’t about nuanced discussion but rather a blunt point. Our political discourse driven by corporate media does focus on voting as the only systematic driver for change edit(as well as creating) a paralyzing despair. More MUST be put into the other levers of democracy, as you point out.
If you do all of those things, then the comic isn’t about you, is it? So why so defensive? 🤔
Because the comic didn’t mention those things, which are how you actually do some democracy in the face of hostile anti-democratic forces.
What point is the comic trying to make exactly? That voting isn’t enough. What alternatives does it suggest? Nothing. It doesn’t offer anything except a whining troll who seems to be encouraging a moralizing stance about the non-utility of voting with no alternatives. Almost like the point of this comic is to erode democratic ideas by making it seem like the only things people care about are voting and moralizing.