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TIL Jane Goodall is still alive.
This has been said my entire life and I have reached the conclusion that any election year where a republican or a democrat wins is not the most import election. It will be the most important when we decided to move on and stop repeated the same process.
The climate is the most important issue we face, that is why it is critical that we reelect the president who has unilaterally renewed and expanded oil and gas leases to make the US the worlds largest Petroleum supplier once again.
I can’t understand how Americans can believe they are an actual democracy. There are only two parties with actual chances. They both have the exact same position in anything that matters economically, they both won’t stop to fuck the future of everybody in the planet because they are owned by the same megacorps. but they have minor disagreements about how hard it should be to buy guns at Wal-Mart, so let’s pretend your vote makes any difference at all…
Yeah, it’s going to be the most important thing every election year from now on.
And before now. It’s almost like elections are always important.
And that’s why my focus has been and will continue to be on improving our election process. I don’t like the two major parties, so we should eliminate the spoiler effect by using a better voting system. I don’t like that my state has extremely gerrymandered districts (100% goes to party A, despite party B getting 30-40% of the vote), so we should consider proportional representation for House seats. I think voting by mail is the best option, and I don’t like that many areas disallow/restrict that. And so on.
Yeah, climate is important, but we should be focusing on voting reform since that’s the only way to pick something other than the two clowns that make it to my ballot every year.
You might like Protect Democracy . Their suggestions for reform and really good, imo
Looks great! They seem a bit too reactive though, I’d like to see some emphasis on nonpartisan policy to improve things. I do like their stance on proportional representation, so maybe they’ll do more with it later.
Thanks for the link, I’ll have to send some money their way.
Agreed. And the best way to do that in the voting booth is to NOT support the encumbant parties who are the only ones who benefit from the current fucked up voting system. It is the absolute least you can do in the voting booth.
Yup. My state will elect the candidate from the local majority party regardless, usually with a 20+% spread. So voting for one of the two major parties accommodates literally nothing since the spread is higher than all other candidate pooled together.
So I vote my conscience, which is one of the third parties.
Sorry but I’ve been hearing this every election since I was old enough to vote.
yawnThat’s right everyone, it’s that time again, THE MOST IMPORTANT ELECTION OF OUR LIFE! You of course only have 2 “real” choices, and if you vote for anyone beside who I think you should vote for you are a racist, a sexist, a fascist, you smell bad, you are a bigot, you are selfish, you are naive, and hundreds of other things. I’m a VERY serious political commentator who happens to be extremely privileged with the status quo, so make sure to vote within the parameters I’ve outlined above, our democracy depends on it.
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Interesting point. I think I will vote for feeding the homeless and universal healthcare instead of a pipe bomb because while there is pipe bombs and atomic bombs on the ballet… there are also other things. Why would I vote for a pipe bomb? lol that would be a dumb thing to do, I could hurt myself.
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One candidate, I wish he was doing more, but he’s doing a lot with the bad hand he was dealt.
The other candidate has called climate change a hoax and will not only do nothing, but will prevent others from taking action.
The next few years do indeed mark a possible turning point in climate change. If the US shows good leadership on the world stage, that will be instrumental in mitigating the worst of climate change. Four years of Trump (or Haley, if Trump somehow loses the primary) is too many years.
Right, I’ll be voting for the candidate who said they establish UBI using funds from a carbon and meat tax.
Pretty sure I’ve heard this every election since Trump got elected. Though, admittedly, not from a noted gorilla scientist.
Having one party interested in ending democracy will do that.
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The partial imperfect one that a big chunk of Americans vote in between last week and November.
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There are sometimes local races with only one candidate, but most races have more than one. Doesn’t mean that they’re all decent choices. But people can and do vote as they choose.
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And the consequences of a lot people doing that is that we will end up with Trump ending democracy and leaving us with a fascist state and no more meaningful elections
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Exactly. This sounds eerily similar to Bush v Gore. Trump is more distasteful than Bush, but at least he didn’t get us into multiple “forever” wars. And Biden doesn’t seem to care much about green policy, at least not compared to Gore.
I’m not voting for Trump, just wanted to agree that the argumentation sounds very similar.
Absolutely Jane.
Hmm… So apparently most lemmy users on this sub are fuckin morons, eh. Well I’m shocked
Isn’t she the one that killed Harembe?
She gave an interview justifying the killing as necessary to save a human child who fell into a zoo’s gorilla enclosure.
She didn’t kill
