• @MagicShel@programming.dev
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    213 months ago

    You will, however, be politically impotent in that case. Checking out of democracy because one option is only incrementally better than the other isn’t really helping anyone.

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      13 months ago

      Democracy is when you have the choice between genocider and slightly less evil genocider

    • Cowbee [he/him]
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      -43 months ago

      What do you mean by “checking out of democracy?”

      As for Kamala being less evil, this is true, yes. However, what’s the plan, long-term? Just keep voting for increasingly right-wing ghouls, as long as they aren’t as bad as the GOP, until the GOP inevitably wins again?

      • @MagicShel@programming.dev
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        163 months ago

        If you want democrats to be a certain way, vote for those democrats in primaries and local elections. You have to fix it from the bottom up and from within.

        • Cowbee [he/him]
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          -13 months ago

          This is historically inaccurate, though. You can’t fix the party from within, because the DNC will always serve its donors. Voting for slightly more progressive democrats won’t actually change that fact.

          • @MagicShel@programming.dev
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            73 months ago

            Then I’d say your options are relocate to somewhere with a more appealing government or cede electoral power to others. Third parties are irrelevant on the national scale, and only slightly less so on the state scale.

            Agitate for RCV or other election reforms that make third parties more relevant, but until that’s the case I’ll stand by my earlier assertions.

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              Then I’d say your options are relocate to somewhere with a more appealing government

              lol this mf literally just said “if you don’t like it here, then just leave”. Where have I heard that before…

              • @MagicShel@programming.dev
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                13 months ago

                The system is what it is. Third party is moot. That’s it. Motherfuckers pretending shit can change just because you really really want it to.

                • @ssm
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                  The system is what it is.

                  Stop looking inside the system for solutions to fix it.

                  Motherfuckers pretending shit can change just because you really really want it to.

                  Liberal doomerism is something else, huh.

            • Cowbee [he/him]
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              -33 months ago

              Then I’d say your options are relocate to somewhere with a more appealing government or cede electoral power to others. Third parties are irrelevant on the national scale, and only slightly less so on the state scale.

              The Left has no electoral power in a system dominated by financial interests. The DNC does not represent the Left.

              Agitate for RCV or other election reforms that make third parties more relevant, but until that’s the case I’ll stand by my earlier assertions.

              Why would the DNC or GOP weaken their own standing?

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                Exactly. I agree 100%. The system is what it is and it will only change over the course of lifetimes, not years. Unless your solution is violent revolution in which case I’d still say to also cast meaningful votes based on some criteria of your choosing. I guess you could vote Republican on the hopes a fascist America would more quickly be overthrown internally or externally. That sounds like a terrible timeline to live through, though.

                • Cowbee [he/him]
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                  The system is what it is and it will only change over the course of lifetimes, not years.

                  Capitalism likely will not last that long. The US is losing its Hegemony and the Global South is increasingly acting in their own interests.

                  Unless your solution is violent revolution in which case I’d still say to still also cast meaningful votes based on some criteria of your choosing.

                  Revolution will likely eventually occur, it’s not something I can just force into happening. Who I vote for will not materially change that course. I do plan on voting, but even if I vote for PSL it won’t materially move the Revolution up the schedule.

                  I guess you could vote Republican on the hopes a fascist America would more quickly be overthrown internally or externally. That sounds like a terrible timeline to live through, though.

                  Accelerationism is dangerous thinking that quickly backfires. Organizing is still by far the most important duty of Leftists.

                  • @TokenBoomer@lemmy.world
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                    23 months ago

                    It must be frustrating to see the course America is on, know what it would take to alter it, but be powerless to stop it.