Living in the 'Newry and Armagh' constituency in a colonial statelet in occupied Ireland, it's very easy to follow this advice as there are only 6 neo-liberal cretins on the ballot paper in a Sinn Féin abstentionist safe-seat and no other options. I don't have the moral conundrum of abandoning my Anarchist principles to lend support to a Worker's Party or Independent candidate with a chance of turfing out a prominent establishment-crowned Blairite abomination. 7 good arguments against doing even that though... Don’t Vote! Seven Short Arguments Against Democracy
JUL 03, 2024
Tomorrow the people of the United Kingdom go to the polls to choose between eating curry-flavoured shit or shit-flavoured curry. I’d be surprised if there were anyone reading this who is thinking of voting, and even more surprised if anyone who was could be persuaded against doing so with a mere argument, but nevertheless, here is a mere argument, seven of them actually, not just against voting tomorrow, which matters next to nothing either way, but against the tyranny of democracy itself.
on July 3, 2024, 12:40 pm