• kurzschluss@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    Can’t wait for tomorrow’s most upvoted posts on Reddit and Lemmy teaching us how the other clowns from the rival circus are still worse. While condemning the killings of children in Gaza with those weapons sold today.

    It’s impossible there was ever a society this manipulated and stupid.

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      7 months ago

      Don’t they have a point though? Your system is broken and the lesser of two evils is all you ever get to pick.

      • Cosmonauticus@lemmy.world
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        7 months ago

        Yeah but when you point that out you’re called a idiot for unintentionally backing Trump. Any criticism of the system or Biden no matter how deserved somehow is support for Trump

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        7 months ago

        No, it’s actually not true. First-past-the-post voting mathematically tends to result in 2 dominant parties, but there’s no mathematical rule that determines which 2 parties. The first two in American history were the Federalist Party, and the Democratic Republican Party. The duopoly has changed several times over the years, and it could change again if we wanted it. Democratic voters have affirmatively made the choice that supporting genocide is better (read: easier) than trying to shake things up.

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          7 months ago

          You will change the Democrat-Republican duopoly as soon as you convince everyone to stop participating in consumerism (beyond one’s basic needs).

          Which is to say: never.

          The last time neither a Republican nor a Democrat was President was more than a century ago. Good luck changing the people’s habits as well as the monumental support structures both parties have erected to prevent any third party from gaining traction, ranging from super PACs to literally the entire American news network, including social media.

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        7 months ago

        The thing about the lesser of two evils is you actually have to be less evil.

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          7 months ago

          Trump is easily more evil, he wants to accelerate the genocide. But even if you consider their position on Gaza as identical, he’s so much worse in all the other ways; he wants to give massive tax cuts to billionaires, criminalize trans people, and pass a national abortion ban. We cannot let that happen.

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      7 months ago

      Wait, you mean to tell me that a bunch of twenty-somethings have figured it all out and everyone else is entirely wrong about everything? Where have this happening before???

      Oh yeah… that’s right. Every election cycle.

      Nuance is for people who don’t want to be constantly outraged by everything that ever happens.

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      7 months ago

      We can do it. We can make him dumber than he was. Dumber, weaker, slower.