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Pardon me for not finding “vulnerable people need to die for my ideology” very convincing.
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Lots of things work this way. You can play on a sports team and not bring too much to the table, and yet your team will win anyway. And yet, if everyone takes that attitude, then the team loses.
In fact, I would say that almost any real progress in the world depends on shared effort where each individual person who's part of it isn't individually critical to the outcome. Not wanting to take part in that kind of thing even when it's mind-bogglingly trivial (as voting is) is going to exclude you from the majority of good things you can do.
No, it's an analogy.
You’re a really poor analogy
I'm gonna start using times when I've articulated what I have to say, and someone clearly wants to get into a pointless and repetitious back-and-forth about it, as a good chance to link to activist organizations that people can join to make a good positive difference.
Here's Bernie Sanders's group; they seem pretty effective.
You seem comically, almost willfully mystified by everything happening around you.
I think this is the behavior of a shill who simply has no argument against the things that are being said, but is on the clock to oppose it in some fashion, and pretending to be so pants-on-head mentally disabled that they can't comprehend the pretty straightforward things people are saying is the only thing they can come up with that still lets them be aggressive against it.
I think. I have no idea; maybe they're just a deeply combative person who's uninterested in reading. Like I say, I think if they are a shill, that this type of behavior actually has the exact opposite effect of what it's supposed to be doing. If it was me I think I would start talking about anarchism and rebellion and how the left needs to turn to real violence to achieve its ends... like sidestep the whole brain-dead argument of "voting won't produce electoral outcomes" and try to positively support something that will indirectly get people thinking in a different direction from political organizing, and still be destructive to the country overall.
Here's a list of jobs with the Biden campaign, for anyone who's okay with the establishment version of the left and wants a job that's more productive than optimizing Adwords campaigns to sell sneakers or whatever. Most are in-person in Delaware and pay about $90k.
(I actually completely by accident linked to an activist organization that does have quite a few concrete answers to your question "What good things?" It's not my problem if you weren't able to find them. But, what I was intending to do was just totally ignore your bad-faith combativeness and link to some useful resources, instead of engaging in this whole hostile exchange in any capacity.)
If you're concerned about climate change specifically, Extinction Rebellion is a protest group agitating to turn the governments of the world against their currently mass-suicidal course of policy. Biden's been able to do a certain amount about it even in the face of pretty stiff resistance from the entirety of our corrupted governmental system, but the current pace of change isn't going to be enough to give us a livable planet in the future, so getting involved in the solution seems like a good idea.