• greenkarmic@lemmy.ca
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      11 months ago

      This will never work until you can vote for as many party as you like instead of just one. They will never allow that, to keep control with this forced 2 party system

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      Unfortunately so long as 30-40% of your country seems to actively want either the collapse of the government or a religious theocracy, you gotta vote for the lesser evil. Once fascism is no longer a threat then you guys can worry about spinning up new parties.

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        11 months ago

        Once fascism is no longer a threat then you guys can worry about spinning up new parties.

        And fascism will never be less of a threat, because the Democrats we’re stuck with keep trying to appease fascists instead of treating them like the threat they are.

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        11 months ago

        Seriously we need ranked choice voting not just people voting for third parties. Third parties lead to Orange Hitler when first-past-the-post voting system makes 3d parties into non-viable election spoilers.

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          Ranked choice in federal elections is **never going to happen ** . The duopoly/(money) will never allow a threat to their power. It can be done at local and state. But, you’ll have to organize a viable 3rd party for federal, which has been damn near impossible without money. Which the 2 parties control.

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      People are so busy worrying about getting people to vote for the lesser evil that they’re not stopping to ask why we’re voting for evil in the first place. The American political landscape has been this way for decades, if not longer, and every generation has been putting that discussion off for the next.

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        11 months ago

        because the alternative to voting for lesser evil is having the guy that thinks the Holocaust wasn’t a bad thing run things, you may want to change the voting system, but you ain’t doing it when you’re dead

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      11 months ago

      This. Where you see a election between A and B, they want you to choose between this too because A is propellant and B is tow for same direction; they are not giving you freedom of choosing your direction.

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            We’re talking about genocide here. You’re handwaving away the concept of evil because you don’t want to be judged for supporting war crimes.

            I’m judging you anyway.

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              We’re talking about genocide here.

              Weird, I clicked on a post mocking the US electoral system and not a thread about genocide. Maybe you’re thinking of another post?

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              Nah, we’re talking about the validity of a term, and genocide or not, evil, and good, are nebulous, arbitrary terms people only attach to conceptsor events they personally agree or disagree with. They’re subjective, and therefore not helpful.

              That doesn’t change because you think you can invoke Godwin’s Law to try to justify it.

              If you actually cared about stopping genocide, it’d be you saying that.

              Don’t waste your breath judging me; I ignore the courts.

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                Nah, we’re talking about the validity of a term, and genocide or not, evil, and good, are nebulous, arbitrary terms people only attach to conceptsor events they personally agree or disagree with. They’re subjective, and therefore not helpful.

                Like I said, you’re just handwaving away any word you don’t like hearing by denying that it has any meaning at all.

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                  You’re just not listening and too busy getting angry to have an actual conversation and it shows.

                  Now, respond to what I said instead of trying to put me down.