• surewhynotlem
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    18 days ago

    I wish I were lucky enough to be equally negatively impacted based on who gets elected. But unfortunately, when Republicans win I suffer more than when Democrats win.

    Yeah we’ll get more wars. Yeah we’ll be capitalist. Yeah, not everything will be solved. But my life was better, and now it’s worse. And it’s because not enough people chose to vote against the worse of the two.

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      18 days ago

      Your life is worse because “vote for second worst” stopped working. You can blame the voters all you want. But you’re not getting an electorate that votes for genocidal candidates just because they’re the second worst genocidal piece of shit.

      Change or it’ll happen again. Or blame me for noticing and keep your hands over the burner.

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        18 days ago

        You’re not wrong, but that’s also impossible without moving to ranked choice voting.

        In America, we get two choices and both suck. You have to vote for the least bad. Third party literally can’t win because 60% of people vote for a party like it’s a sports team and will never change.

        Your recommendation prevents damage mitigation and cannot succeed.

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          17 days ago

          In America, we get two choices and both suck. You have to vote for the least bad.

          How’s that been working out for you? Because from here it looks like “we suck and we’re never going to fix it now shut up and vote for genocide and like it” hasn’t worked.

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            17 days ago

            Ok. Propose an alternative that would actually realistically work.

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              17 days ago

              Democrats are currently fighting it instead of fighting republicans.

    • Coolans Planet@lemmy.todayOP
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      18 days ago

      Not at all: when you vote you’re accepting the rules. You’re telling the people in power “I accept the terms and conditions: the one who wins owns me”. And at the same time the one who wins is owned by higher powers, like banksters. In order to make a real change that bring prosperity for all, there might be an American Revolution II, and that’s something that is not voted. But this time, that revolution has to be made for cleaning the country deeply. It doesn’t have to be violent, France already did that rebooting their country 4 times (is currently going for the 5th Republic, and nowadays they need to reboot again, because it’s not working anymore).

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        18 days ago

        All of that is in your head. The people in charge don’t care if you vote. When you don’t vote, they win more easily.

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        18 days ago

        And when you don’t accept the rules they don’t care about you, it’s a lose-lose situation