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[–] HawlSera@lemm.ee 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

This is basically everything I've tried explaining to Anarkiddies through walls of text, summed into one meme. Thank you!

[–] HopFlop@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 9 months ago (12 children)

This is the issie with the voting system that the US uses. This makes it almost impossible for new parties to emerge because if they dont get the majority anywhere, they will not be in parliament (as opposed to, lets say 5% of the whole population voting them and them therefore getting 5% of the parliament seats).

Where I live, you have like 6 different parties in parliament and every decade or so, a new one emerges.

I really think people should vote the parties directly themselves, why would you need middle men?

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[–] pigup@lemmy.world 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Accelerationism is for dopes

[–] WereHacker@lemmy.ml 5 points 9 months ago (14 children)

Darn you american liberals are getting desperate. This is a fellow kids-level "please vote for the lesser evil" type of meme. But I am not american and have trouble seeing if your argument is a pipedream worthy of a genocide to pursue.

[–] WereHacker@lemmy.ml 5 points 9 months ago

Thing is. It was under Biden the US decided we where lucky enough to get american bases on our soil. I really don't see much difference for people in the rest of the world.

I do however believe in democracy. Indirect democracy, where you vote for rulers, must have meaningful choices in order to be democratic.

I guess what I really am trying to say is. The rest of the world don't have a say in who decides if we get trade deals or tanks in the streets.

And if USA was my country I would have a difficult time voting for someone so cruel. Even if he was the lesser evil. Because democracy is built on the notion that you have to believe in free choices.

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[–] RealFknNito@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago (11 children)

Man, this is drenched in Anarchy overtones. If voting can help groups not get murdered how is it not also able to fight fascism and capitalist oppression? Seems like the latter would include the former in it.

Oh right, it's a meme, not an actual thought out take. Damn it.

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[–] Zuberi@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 9 months ago (6 children)

Leftists are going 3rd party, the implication that they don't vote is stupid.

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