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[–] [email protected] 19 points 5 days ago (26 children)
[–] [email protected] 39 points 5 days ago (5 children)

You just have a stupid voting system

[–] [email protected] 17 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Yep. Democrats are complicit. Check out the podcast episode "Americas Hidden Duopoly" to learn more, it's the Freakonomics podcast I think.

I'll try to scrounge up a link: https://freakonomics.com/podcast/americas-hidden-duopoly-2/

We all know our political system is “broken” — but what if that’s not true? Some say the Republicans and Democrats constitute a wildly successful industry that has colluded to kill off competition, stifle reform, and drive the country apart. So what are you going to do about it?

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)
  1. There are only a few legitimate swing states, votes outside swing states don't matter

  2. In no swing state did third party votes supercede the difference between Kamala and Trump votes. Ie, even if every third party voter, Libertarians included, voted Kamala, she still would've lost.

  3. Even under the Democrats, "No Rights" is still the party platform.

  4. Leftists have always supported revolution as the only legitimate means of enacting change, while liberals aid in the constant rightward spiral. Voting is an incredibly small level of political activism, organizing is far more effective.

  5. The DNC were enacting a genocide of Palestinians.

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 5 days ago

You spent the whole elections saying that leftists were an irrelevant Demographic who could be safely ignored. And you'll be saying it again come the next election. It's only when you need someone to blame a loss on that they matter.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 5 days ago (96 children)

I dont get it.

OPs cartoon makes it clear that the dems are oposed to left-wing policies, so commie guy refused to vote against his interests.

The problem isnt commie guy, it's all the other brainless sheep who keep voting for the same two parties who don't represent them.

Consider this: if all the people forced to vote opted to vote someone else, then the Dems would really understand why they're failing, and more, you'd have the basis for an actual third party to from.

But instead you and other dimwits keep preaching the same old 2 party rethoric who has been fucking you over for decades.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Can you tell us how the Dems are going to reform the voting system so that people's choices are fairly represented? No? They have no plans for that because they perceive themselves as beneficiaries of a broken electoral system? Wow it's almost as if they're self interested crooks themselves

Edit: people downvoting this are the same people who'd hear about coca cola paramilitaries in South America and then switch to Fanta, thinking they're voting with their wallets

[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 days ago

hey man remember when the democrats were in the house and senate and obama was president and they dismantled ACORN? haha damn that's wild, bro.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (7 children)

Good. Since we're the deciding factor, we have increased influence and more negotiating power going forward. Now the democrats (whose slogan is also "No rights!") might actually listen to our demands next time if they don't want to eat shit again.

And if they still won't, then it's obviously necessary to replace them and that has to start somewhere.

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