It’s a little wild to tell someone they should spend this energy doing something about it instead of writing

That’s not what freagle said though. The argument wasn’t that jjj shouldn’t write or that they shouldn’t try to influence people, the argument was that they shouldn’t be wasting their time and energy trying to influence people to vote because voting is ultimately useless. Freagle never said that trying to influence people period is a waste. So no, what they said did not ring hollow and there was no hypocrisy in writing a long a comment explaining why it is a waste to try to get people to vote or to vote a certain way.

You either didn’t understand or deliberately mischaracterized what freagle was actually saying so you can’t claim it was just constructive criticism.

It is still helpful to be heard and minimize harm.

Voting does not accomplish that! Voting will NOT make you heard and voting will NOT minimize harm. Your insistence that it does accomplish these things is what is harmful.

Telling people to do useless things saps their energy away from doing things that actually are meaningful like organizing. Voting is used as a tool by the bourgeois to get people to think they “did their duty” politically, so they can relax and not worry about having to do more even though “more” is still the bare minimum (voting is less than bare minimum). You have been duped by the bourgeois. Smarten up.

I’m curious what tendency of leftist you do consider yourself, if any. Clearly you’re not an anarchist, u/Cowbee who I trust said above that you do not consider yourself a Marxist-Leninst. What tendency do you come closest to aligning with?