• AeonFelis@lemmy.world
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    7 days ago

    Yes, both parties suck, and you are allowed to dislike both, but they don’t suck equally and not (completely) in the same way and you are obliged to decide for yourself which party sucks harder, which you dislike more, and most importantly - which are you the most scared of getting into power.

    Just because you don’t want to be neither leftist nor rightist doesn’t mean you need to aim for the dead center. That’s as dogmatic as aiming for one of the extremes, and in fact dumber because it’s not even motivated by any ideology.

  • chloroken@lemmy.ml
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    6 days ago

    Pizzacake, .world, and hundreds of politically-incoherent comments. I can’t imagine a better way to take a shit.

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    7 days ago

    In person, I don’t really see a whole lot of people in the US admitting or claiming that they didn’t or don’t vote.

    I do, however, see a lot of life-long Republicans and known Trump voters making claims like “I don’t really use social media” and “other than the weather I don’t keep up with the news”, both of which I know are lies in many cases.

    However, giving them benefit of the doubt on that, they’re admitting something equally as bad: They aren’t educating themselves, they aren’t informed on important matters, and facts do not matter to them. They’re shirking their responsibilities.

    Personally, I’ve always, always, always operated under the principle that our rights come with responsibilities, so I find it shameful that so many people are so negligent in that respect.

  • eronth@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    6 days ago

    I would love to get away from our current 2 party system…

    But until then please we have to stop electing the tyrant side.

  • ImWaitingForRetcons@lemmy.world
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    7 days ago

    Go vote, but it’s worth remembering that for the most part, the other party only does milquetoast critiques of the Nazis at best.

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    7 days ago

    If only the corporate Dems were actually on the good side… Sigh.

  • anarchiddy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    7 days ago

    The democratic system gave up on serving the disenfranchised long before the disenfranchised gave up on the democratic system.

    If you want to be angry, be angry at those protecting the system from change, not the people who have given up hope that it can be changed.

    Be kind to people, be ruthless to systems.

  • MrErr@piefed.world
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    7 days ago

    Democrats don’t oppose Nazis. Chuck Schummer, Hakeem Jeffries and Ken Martin did not oppose the Nazis. they have no intention of fixing the system that let the Nazis in.

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    7 days ago

    As something of an anarchist, I never voted until the nazis became a big political force in my country.

    Now I vote every election because by not voting I’m letting the nazis grow.