Low Information Voter on Nostr: Define "accomplished". Voting has achieved many things, but only when the change was ...
Define "accomplished". Voting has achieved many things, but only when the change was understood and supported by an armed populace able and willing to organise in non-systemic ways, and had the sympathy of an elite faction.
Diss, your persona is an obstacle to both one and the other :D You're entertaining, though.
Assassinating politicians is mostly useless in a bureaucratic society.
And buying politicians is easy, but keeping them bought is hard. Blackmail is good, but credible, persistent and organised threats are better.
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