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[-] UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 4 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

Here is where I would usually post videos on the flaws of First-past-the-post voting alongside videos going over alternative voting systems with no spoiler effect.

Those days have passed us by. Good luck everyone.

[-] Boppel@feddit.org -2 points 7 hours ago

you don't have to keep people from voting democrats anymore, trump already won. you were successful

[-] RiverRock@lemmy.ml 2 points 4 hours ago

Psychologically housebroken

[-] Boppel@feddit.org -4 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

one day the revolution will happen all by itself – without anyone having to do anything for or against the backward politics. because: voting may have achieved so little, but complaining online – precisely the medium they control and dominate – that will be the decisive lever and bring change overnight. suuure. you might not vote, but they do. so maybe don't tell me that i'm psychologically housebroken when you behave like the goodest boy. have a treat

[-] RiverRock@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 hours ago

Libfash and "no u", a match made in heaven😇

[-] Boppel@feddit.org -1 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

the guy telling not to vote is calling others fashists. just my humor 😂 cope harder

[-] Microtonal_Banana@lemmy.zip 17 points 1 day ago

If voting didn't matter they wouldnt be working so hard to rat fuck the elections.

[-] dessalines@lemmy.ml 35 points 1 day ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

Not really true. Since voting in a capitalist dictatorship makes people have faith in their current system, threatening (and trying) to take it away lets people retreat to a position that capitalists also ultimately approve of and control. Its similar to candidate stacking: if both choices are pro-capitalist, then its strategically beneficial.

Would they rather eliminate voting entirely? Not really, because voting as a rigged game has proven its usefulness historically by giving people the illusion of choice, being a useful spectacle / popularity contest, and building faith in the system. Its really useful in preventing the alternative: which is worker's taking power, and its why all working class states aim to overthrow bourgeios democracy.

Bourgeois democracy is a completely rigged game, and has proven the safest and most reliable shell for capitalist rule, regardless of voting methods or form, whether its in the US, UK, Japan, South Korea, Germany, Australia, etc.

[-] melfie@lemmy.zip 18 points 19 hours ago

Giving a toddler a couple approved choices works better than dictating everything. It’s a shame the same technique works so well with a good portion of the adult population.

[-] olenkoVD@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 1 day ago

Because the only thing both Democrats and Republicans care about is the color of the trolley.

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