FAQ
Q: why not organize and stop treating the bus as a legitimate entity? why aren’t you working to stop the bus?
A: do both. cut the fuel line. break windows. put oatmeal in the gas tank. but maybe your efforts don’t succeed this election cycle. and if so don’t fucking throw away your vote if it can help your neighbors fucking survive. “harm reduction” is not a political strategy for action. it is a last minute, end of the line decision to save lives, after all other resources have been exhausted.
I think it's selective misunderstanding. Dealing with the knowledge that voting won't really achieve much is super uncomfortable, so they'd rather pretend that you said "don't vote" so they don't have to think about what you really said.
Another way is pretending that you don't actually mean it. Stopping the bus seems impossible to them, so they assume you must not actually be doing anything about it, but that's wrong too. It's just most people think of revolution in terms of storming the Bastille or whatever, they don't realise that most of the work is constant, basic, on the ground, building mutual aid networks, because in a world where people starve because they don't have enough money, feeding people is a radical act.