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[–] 71 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (29 children)

"Both sides are the same, you shouldn't bother voting"

People don't bother voting, the bad guys win, things get worse

"See? I was right!"

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  • [–] 20 points 1 week ago (7 children)

    Bill to Criminalise Being Poor narrowly passes with a 51/49 vote.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 week ago (6 children)

    Bill to provide Israel with 12,000 brand new "child-melter 4000s" passes with unanimous bipartisan support.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 week ago (5 children)

    Right. That's why the whole democracy process isn't supposed to begin and end with election day... But I have a suspicion, and it is just a suspicion, that a lot of the public don't actually have as much of a problem with genocide as we assume they would.

    I'm not entirely certain my own neighbours could locate Palestine or Israel on a map.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 week ago

    Very depressing and completely real, unfortunately.

    The state of public education and historical knowledge honestly makes me second guess the idea of re-education camps, lol. Seems preferable to decades of bloodshed fighting unlimited waved of ignorant propagandized fascists.

    Maybe a clockwork orange style eye opening device with the Gaza genocide playing in one eye and both sides of the American political elite saying there's no evidence of humanitarian violations in the other.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 week ago (3 children)

    So in other words even if voting did work you're going to end up with someone as shitty as the average American and they're still going to commit genocide

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  • [–] 1 point 1 week ago (2 children)

    That’s not what happens when voting works.

    It’s what happens when you vote and then do nothing else.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 week ago (1 child)

    That’s not what happens when voting works.

    Yes it is

    It’s what happens when you vote and then do nothing else.

    I do agree with that

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  • [–] 1 point 1 week ago*

    I do think it odd that the Palestine protests seemed to dry up recently... It got visibility and there were protests before the election, and then nothing. It really just reads almost like the movement cared more about making a point about complicit Democrats than genuine care for the issue, and once Biden and his ilk were "held to account", they gave up.

    Yes, there might be a case of the media colluding to not cover it as much anymore because they were no longer useful in swinging the election, but I think it might be a little of Column A and a little of Column B...

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  • [–] 8 points 1 week ago (19 children)

    The issue is that even if you voted for the democrat every time, due to them not improving the living situation considerably you'll always end up having the worse guy win at some point.

    The only thing that would really help would be to finally start improving the living reality of the people.

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  • [–] 28 points 1 week ago (7 children)

    That's why we need people to vote in the primaries.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    Wilding v. DNC is the court case where the DNC admitted that they don't have to abide by the primaries because they are a private entity and can nominate whomever they want.

    They admitted this in open court because so many people voted in the primaries for Bernie, and yet they nominated Hillary, that they could no longer hide this fact from the majority of the Democrat voting public.

    The truth was short lived though, as that case is almost completely memory holed, and everyone pretends like none of that happened a decade ago.

    I was there. I remember. Sure, vote in the primaries and vote for the "lesser evil", but we won't win anything without infiltrating the Democrat bureaucracy and forming unions and serious protests.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 week ago (4 children)

    The primaries that they can decide not to have? Or that the winner didn't really win?

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  • [–] 0 points 1 week ago (3 children)

    at least one state had open primaries, I'd need to check if others do but we got ours from a ballot measure.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    Wow, how generous of them to give one state a primary, maybe.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 week ago* (1 child)

    Nah, if people cared about politics before Election Day we could be pushing for better candates in the primaries.

    We absolutely will continue to get the choice between a shit sandwich and a shit burrito every time if we keep refusing to take part in the ingredient selection.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 week ago*

    I'm gonna need to stop you right there.

    Pushing for better candidates means defining a coherent set of qualities one wants in a candidate and then actually doing legwork for them instead of flinging shit everywhere from the lazy safety of your bedroom in your parents' house.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 week ago* (7 children)

    Last time the democrats had control of all three branches of government, americans got slightly better healthcare, and now insurance companies can't just refuse to cover conditions they claim you had before you got insurance. Also no more lifetime maximums.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 week ago (4 children)

    Also thousands of innocent civilians were murdered on the other side of the planet by those democrats, but they were brown so they didn't count?

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  • [–] 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    Don't dismiss my comment. Those lives are worth your comfort?

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  • [–] 3 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    True, but do democrats improve more than the previous republican made it worse? It doesn't feel like it.

    Also I wouldn't use Healthcare as an example of something that works in the US

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