• daltotron@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    Jesus christ this has gotta be one of the most annoying conversations people have every four years. uhhh we gotta vote because the other candidate is literally hitler guys he’s literally hitler. uhhhh noooo I don’t wanna vote at all because I’m cranky and my candidate has dementia and sucks waaaaah.

    I feel like I’m stuck in a fucking time loop. I would much rather see people being like, oh you hate our options, like a sane person, but will probably vote anyways because it takes like an afternoon at most, if you really feel like it and hopefully don’t have anything more important to do? Instead of this meme, I’d rather see like, oh, here’s some shit you can do, here’s some organization you can join, here’s some place you can donate money, something like that. Here’s what building you should throw a brick through the window of, you know? I’d rather see that, than these dumb ragebait memes.

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          9 months ago

          The politicians in charge want it. So pretty much every republican and a sizeable amount of democrats. Without actual representative voting, both parties would loose a lot of members to new founded parties who now suddenly do have a realistic chance of actual political power. None of the established people in the parties want that. After all it’s working out just fine for them.

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    9 months ago

    People who make these arguments are the same people who argue 3rd party voting is impossible and infeasible and get mad when I criticize senile Biden, even after voting for senile Biden.

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      […] 3rd party voting is impossible and infeasible

      Well with the current voting system of the US, a viable third party on the national level is impossible. It shouldn’t be and the voting system needs a serious rework to better reflect better working democracies, but currently voting for a third party instead of the democrats is helping the republicans. And with what the republicans currently are openly planning, this really isn’t the right time to let them anywhere near power.