• WanderingThoughts@europe.pub
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      A two party system never represents the multitude of opinions in s population, and a first by the post voting system always gives you a two party system.

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      You are absolutely correct, but the context of this post makes it a bad place to say that. Almost to the point that one wonders if you did mean it as a comment on the meme. Which would be extremely fucked up. But of course a sizeable portion of the US population would disagree with me there.

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        You can do your lesser evil shit all you want, that candidate won’t change the future of America any further than a Republican can undo it in 4-6 years. Real change isn’t this pretend, small-game shit. Democrats have won time and time again since Bush Sr, and we’ve had war after war after war with bipartisan support for laws that give less than they take for the benefit of billionares. The current Democratic party isn’t a separate choice, it’s a choice to lock Republican rhetoric in a box until they inevitably get out again. Your party is no more effective at ridding the world of fascism than Ash Ketchum is at defeating Team Rocket. Maybe we all need a firm reminder that Trump and Bush didn’t actually win their elections, yet were calmly allowed to move right on in anyway. Who opened the door? Biden opened one of them, and he had six months of Presidential immunity leading up to it. Hillary was pushing spyware campaigns, Obama was drone-striking and Bernie wants Ai in your 401k. Who do they work for? You? Doesn’t sound like it.

        Removed threads and deleted histories, it’s like I’m on Reddit again! Here. Enjoy it again.

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        You can do your lesser evil shit all you want, that candidate won’t change the future of America any further than a Republican can undo it in 4-6 years. Real change isn’t this pretend, small-game shit. Democrats have won time and time again since Bush Sr, and we’ve had war after war after war with bipartisan support for laws that give less than they take for the benefit of billionares. The current Democratic party isn’t a separate choice, it’s a choice to lock Republican rhetoric in a box until they inevitably get out again. Your party is no more effective at ridding the world of fascism than Ash Ketchum is at defeating Team Rocket. Maybe we all need a firm reminder that Trump and Bush didn’t actually win their elections, yet were calmly allowed to move right on in anyway. Who opened the door? Biden opened one of them, and he had six months of Presidential immunity leading up to it. Hillary was pushing spyware campaigns, Obama was drone-striking and Bernie wants Ai in your 401k. Who do they work for? You? Doesn’t sound like it.

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          Found another person screaming into the wind about a 2-party system that isn’t changing anytime remotely soon so their whining really means nothing.

          Another person that doesn’t grasp that within the reality they live in that isn’t changing anytime soon it is absolutely better to vote for damage reduction, or, you know, the party that is always better when it comes to our economy and human rights and social safety nets.

          You should come back once you’ve helped make a 3rd party viable in every individual state in our nation so that they’d actually have a chance of controlling our federal government someday in an imaginary distant future.

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          why won’t you completely change how the government works this is why I won’t participate.

          This is you.

          The system we have is the system we have. And every time you sit out you let republicans dictate whats going on.

          Stop being such a smug child.