• @[email protected]
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    256 months ago

    Don’t they have a point though? Your system is broken and the lesser of two evils is all you ever get to pick.

    • @Cosmonauticus
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      86 months ago

      Yeah but when you point that out you’re called a idiot for unintentionally backing Trump. Any criticism of the system or Biden no matter how deserved somehow is support for Trump

      • Optional
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        06 months ago

        The package can be blocked by Congress if a majority in both chambers object.

        Now we get to find out how many of our excitingly new progressives know who their representatives are. Or even if they have representatives. If they do, can they work out the seekrit next steps? Only time will tell.

      • AbsentBird
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        6 months ago

        Trump is easily more evil, he wants to accelerate the genocide. But even if you consider their position on Gaza as identical, he’s so much worse in all the other ways; he wants to give massive tax cuts to billionaires, criminalize trans people, and pass a national abortion ban. We cannot let that happen.

    • @[email protected]
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      26 months ago

      No, it’s actually not true. First-past-the-post voting mathematically tends to result in 2 dominant parties, but there’s no mathematical rule that determines which 2 parties. The first two in American history were the Federalist Party, and the Democratic Republican Party. The duopoly has changed several times over the years, and it could change again if we wanted it. Democratic voters have affirmatively made the choice that supporting genocide is better (read: easier) than trying to shake things up.

      • @[email protected]
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        36 months ago

        You will change the Democrat-Republican duopoly as soon as you convince everyone to stop participating in consumerism (beyond one’s basic needs).

        Which is to say: never.

        The last time neither a Republican nor a Democrat was President was more than a century ago. Good luck changing the people’s habits as well as the monumental support structures both parties have erected to prevent any third party from gaining traction, ranging from super PACs to literally the entire American news network, including social media.

      • @PriorityMotif
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        26 months ago

        There’s a large number of Jewish people who are Democrats and politicians are more worried about points than doing the right thing.