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  • Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    3 days ago

    You americans are so fucked.

    Maga: => fascism

    Democrats: => weeell some status quoi I guess

    Third party: => same thing as not vote at all

    Good luck, you need it!

    • Kage520@lemmy.world
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      3 days ago

      We need some sort of cleverly worded campaign to say “without Ranked Choice Voting (or similar), there can be no true democracy.”

      I’m sure some grassroots stuff could get off the ground for that in many states. Just need people to understand WHY it’s so important to leave First Past the Post behind.

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        2 days ago

        Isn’t the problem that it isn’t one election but everyone sends some grand electors (like the french IV republic)? Not how you vote “locally”?

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            2 days ago

            Well of course.

            Some places have those representatives elect the ruler, sort of. Your problem seems to be with the ruler, how he’s elected and his powers

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              23 hours ago

              Our problem as of now isnt how the leader is elected, it’s that he’s deliberately ignoring the restrictions placed on him, and is doing acts that were specifically given to other branches of government, overstepping bounds, etc., all while the other two branches do fuck all to stop it. We need people with spines in congress, but all of our politicians happen to be invertibrates.

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                18 hours ago

                You put too much faith in your (high level) politicians. That’s yet another of your problems, that once elected they seem to be able to do (or not do) whatever they want.

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    3 days ago

    Don’t you know what happens domestically and abroad historically doesn’t impact me, and I am therefore required by law to disregard all of it as other people problems? Trump does impact me though, so if you don’t do the one thing I think will stop him you’re complicit in every single thing he does moving forward.

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      2 days ago

      On one side a bunch of bad shit. You might be able to get made a little less bad.

      On another, worse versions of ALL above bad shit, PLUS the literal destruction of all rights and hope and change going forward.

      I absolutely blame you, because you factually destroyed hope of change because you were butthurt.

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      3 days ago

      Bruh literally wants to defending a party who loses every election they step to the right on.

      like, do you want to win or do you want the democrats to stay right? You have to pick.

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        3 days ago

        Democrats prefer losing, it lines their pockets in donations and Republicans don’t take them. Republicans kill the public, not the Democrats. So why would they ever care about the public? Winning doesn’t make them money.

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          3 days ago

          You aren’t wrong.

          Democratic consultants made more on 2024 than any election previous. Spent something like 1.5 billion dollars on stupid shit catering to either a) shitlibs/liberals who were always going to vote for them or b) republicans who were never going to vote for them.

          Remember when lemmings were trying to gaslight us that going on “Call Her Daddy” was somehow going to win her the election.

          She lost 6% of the voters who showed up for Biden. And Biden would have lost more. All because its more important for them to keep the party conservative than it is to win elections.

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            3 days ago

            The DNC wants to pretend to fight so when they vote yes on Trump’s demands they can say it’s not a lie on ads when it’s time for fundraising.

            I have given up any hope on the national organization. They have promised basic, normal things then gave up on it.

            They didn’t even try to arrest Trump. How? How did they fail to even attempt to arrest the most obvious treason in the 21st century? It’s just basic logic to arrest the people who break laws.

            Or abortion like we were promised. Or legalizing canabis. Or student loan forgiveness. Or monthly checks. Or Biden being one term and never promising to run… Or…

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      3 days ago

      Yeah the bathwater was filled with the blood of dead babies by US bombs. Sorry you don’t get to splash around in it Elizabeth Báthory.

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          22 hours ago

          Is that an Osterich? Hey! Sand is over there. Hold on. I’m gonna get Suess cam from the Doc. We all want to see this done right, here.

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          3 days ago

          Oh I thought I was accused of throwing the bathwater out. Make up your mind righty.