• TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    The oil companies spent a generation teaching you that it was individual people making individually better choices. They did this to keep the same old status quo going while you blame your friends and neighbors for not recycling hard enough.

    And just like before, the propaganda woks on you, where you blame those who control almost nothing in the electoral system, and give those who have all the power in the electoral system a pass.

    History isn’t going to remember your insistence, that “voters” just needed to do better, kindly. You were wrong about how elections work, and it handed the nation to the fascists

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      11 hours ago

      In the recycling example its a sham because the net effect of all individual parties recycling is bubkis whereas with voting the net effect of another 1% getting to the polls turns the entire thing around.

      We are absolutely at fault for not understanding the meaning of our choices…

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        10 hours ago

        You can not “vote harder” a candidate into office. If you have fallen back to that as a strategy, you’ve already lost.