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USPol, I swear to fucking G-d if I see another so-called "anarchist" doing this shit... 

Online "anarchists" are so brain poisoned by infighting that they call anti-electoralists and more situationist types "feds" for contesting voting and the spectacle of political theater.

Wouldn't an actual fed want you to keep voting? In the 'Fed'eral elections, perhaps? Or do you believe some leftist variant of the "deep state" conspiracy? Like right wingers secretly control the government and want you to not vote? because... even though they are already in power... that matters? Somehow? I mean, wouldn't it make more sense for them to astroturf for candidates and your right to vote if it actually mattered to them? Why would they undermine their own legitimacy?

It really doesn't make sense no matter how you think about it. You have to be living in your specific make-believe world to make it all add up. The real explanation is much simpler. Liberals are trained to call anyone who disagrees with the ruling ideology a "bot" or some kind of "extremist" and this phenomenon is the importation of that into the leftist and anarchist scene. So cut it out and embrace that a diversity of tactics includes people who think your votes don't matter based on lived experience. If voting matters to you, just go do it instead of sticking around and yelling "Fed!". Making yourself look stupid...

Maybe if their energy were spent on activism instead of fed-jacketing all the anarchists who should have obvious reasons to distrust participation in government. Maybe, then, they'd have done something other than voting during the campaign sensationalism year.!

But logging on for inactivist accusations and subscribing to the fears of missing out in participatory democracy is clearly much more productive! /s

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