Because the other option was Hitler.

Because voters are fucking adults and it's their responsibility to make the best decision under the circumstances they find themselves so their quality of life doesn't degenerate even more.

No one inspired you? Too fucking bad. Look at the facts. Make the most intelligent decision.

It can take a long time like Rome or it could be short like the third reich. It will be violent though. The "graceful" British decline hasn't been anywhere close to peaceful. I think the best explanation for this relatively low magnitude of violence is that the British empire never died, it just lost rank. It was supplanted. It still benefits heavily from imperialism, just in a different form and to a lesser degree. The Suez Canal crisis is a great case study on how the British empire came to understand its lost of supremacy and accept its new place in the world hierarchy.

The big difference with America (and the collective Western imperial system) is that should China succeed in dominating the world economic hierarchy, it could be the end of that hierarchy. At least that's what capitalist leaders are currently thinking will happen. I believe this decline has to be violent because it is the last flail of a system that knows it is dying rather than a country accepting second best. They think if China wins the jig is up basically.

Let me rephrase. Politicans do not have the power to prevent the economic decline of an empire losing its hegemonic power as a result of the contradictions within its system of production. But I think you know what I meant.

But it's got Viggo.

One of the few things they can do that has any measurable effect on outcomes and they decided, "nah, fuck all that."

Voting is the easiest way to bring political change or preserve things you like about society.

it’s an easy choice to pick the one that is less bad

Tell that to millions of braindead Americans.

To be fair, they pretty much built this place. They were here before the whole Reddit thing, and they stuck around. Most normies just up and left.

I don’t particularly want to talk about the evils of capitalism in every thread. It’s really really bad, but I have diverse interests, and have some form of object permanence, it’s ok to talk about something else once in a while. But that’s the only content that gets any engagement here because we left and they stayed.

So chalk another one for the old small-d democratic notion of “decisions are made by those who show up”. This is the “get lectured by Tankies” social media network now.

Real talk. Don't judge them based on their instance though.

There are some very smart(if not misguided) users in .ml