woke-up-on-derse:

“the system is rigged”

absolutely

“if we can’t win all the seats we need, we may as well not even vote”

hold on a sec. we’re just gonna pretend that voting is all or nothing? we’re just gonna let the people who need help in the short term die while we enact our twelve-step program? really y’all? im not gonna bold-faced lie and say voting is all it takes, but it’s not as though it hurts. historically speaking, voting has a pretty decent track record of changing things 😕 doing “all you can” includes voting and im not taking shit from anyone who doesn’t