#voting is taking a shit. it is the literal action of sorting through your governmental refuse for the sake of mitigating harm

[gynoidgearhead]

[Image caption for original post: intentionally partially obscured screenshot reading "if my options are vote for the guy who's committing genocide or vote for the guy who will probably also commit genocide then sorry to say i'm not voting for fucking either of them. plain and simple. like I'm gonna be completely honest I could care less about the future of this country if complicity in genocide is the cost."

For anyawen's addition: tags reading: "#look #if both of the candidates are equally horrible on one issue #then it's a non-issue #PICK A DIFFERENT ISSUE TO WEIGH #because I guarantee there's an issue they'll differ on #and it'll be important to someone". End caption.]

By existing as a citizen in and paying taxes to the imperial core, we automatically hold complicity in imperialist oppression because we are literally footing the bill for it. That is just the basic nature of being born to privilege in systems of oppression in general. We can be disadvantaged and marginalized in every single other consideration and we still have to understand and cope with this, and ensure we leverage it as effectively as possible.

Voting abstinence/sabotage does not absolve us of our responsibility to do everything in our power to lessen harm, but it DOES show that when our personal morals aren't satisfied, we retreat into (imperialist, this time) privilege to 'wash our hands' of the situation and declare it's not our fault and it's not our problem.