Jericho_One 12 points a year ago

"This message brought to you by those that sat out of the last election and directly caused all of this chaos"

GTFO with this nonsense

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solo 7 points a year ago

Personally, I am not so much against voting in general, because some forms of direct democracy work imo.

Representative democracy seems to me that it is not working as "advertised". Having the "choice" of voting between 2 terrible options which are both sold out to corporate interest, doesn't seem like a great societal model to me. Nowadays, one of these two options is often a fascist, an extreme nationalist or something along those lines. So even, if people vote for the one that is not fascist, the argument still stands (rephrasing it a bit): we cannot not vote our way out of a system in which the politicians work for those who funded their campaigns, instead of the people who voted for them.

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Jericho_One 6 points a year ago

To be fair, "representative democracy" isn't exactly what the US is experiencing at the moment.

Between the gerrymandering, the lack of ranked choice voting, the unlimited spending allowances by Congress (they could write a law limiting spending by private corporations and declare corporations "not persons", but have not done so), which keeps the two party system afloat, it's an insult to "representative democracy" to call the current system in the US such a name.

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TheAlbatross 4 points a year ago

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punkisundead 4 points a year ago

Which election are you talking about? There are so many all over the world and usually a person can only participate in one or a few.

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Jericho_One 3 points a year ago

You posted the meme: which "democratic" election are you talking about?

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Tiresia 1 point a year ago

Do you seriously expect there to be fair elections in the US in 2028?

You're refusing to see what you need to do because you don't like the choices of those that set the stage. Your comment is no better than those you criticize.

I do think we should not ally with accelerationists like OP and this Community, because they define themselves by the intent to endanger us to make the status quo more intimidating for centrists. But even broken clocks are right twice a day, and this is one of those cases.

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Jericho_One 1 point a year ago

I am not entirely sure what to expect, and neither do you, because neither of us can predict the future.

I do know that in past elections, the message that "your vote doesn't matter" or "both sides are the same" lead directly to the situation we're in right now, which is what my response was addressing.

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