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Jameson Quinn@voter.bsky.social |
The <censored> New York Times has chosen this particular 4th of July — less than a week after 6 unelected judges bindingly ruled that monarchy is great after all — to publish an editorial against voting. My first response is RAGE. But OK, let's do this: here's why they're so so wrong:
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Kevin Korb
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The "message" is that collective action is pointless, because it takes more than just you to achieve any result. So, the only way to achieve anything is to force collective action. I.e., authoritarianism is the sensible organizing principle for society. Not so much bleak as stupid.
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Jameson Quinn
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I don't subscribe, so I've just read the first 6 paragraphs available on Internet Archive. But that's more than enough to get the tone of the piece: self-congratulations, with an undertone of snide trolling. As others have pointed out, you can tell this is a straight cis white guy without checking.
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