tidy_frog

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago

"Post names and addresses of jurors" is a really wordy way of saying "terrorism". Because that's what this is. Someone, or a small group, is trying to use fear to affect the decision making of our society.

That is textbook terrorism.

We need to start calling this shit what it is.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Then you're voting authoritarian.

Don't fool yourself. The math behind FPtP voting doesn't end any other way if you vote 3rd party.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

You do understand that the choice you are essentially voting for, if you don't vote, is a fundamentalist dictatorship that will tell you how to live your life, and imprison you if you don't obey, while taking your freedoms and wealth anyway even if you do. Yes?

Apathy is fine as long as both parties believe in running a democracy. The gop no longer does.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (4 children)

My only complaint with jerboa is that it keeps forgetting my login details.

I use a password manager. I don't know what my lemmy password is. I just know it's really long, so logging in requires owning up a second app, searching for lemmy, copying my password, going back to jerboa, and then going through the login flow.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well, parties don't fight for what you want. They're too big.

Representatives fight for you. That's literally their job.

I have a congressional rep for the district I live in. I make sure to attend one town hall every year to make myself heard and let him know what I want him to fight for.

And even then, he has to take the wants and needs of roughly 130,000 people into account.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I'm not saying that you should let your kids starve. I'm saying that this situation has been engineered on purpose, and that it perpetuates itself by design.

If I could, I would stand in line for you. I can afford it.

But I can't. Legally, I can't.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

One of the choices is literally a fascist dictator wannabe.

There is no third choice with a chance in Hell of winning.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

For a lot of people "unpaid time off" isn't a favor. You're asking them to pay to vote.

Sorry, but voting is a civic duty.

Not a pastime.

Not a hobby.

Not a privilege.

A duty.

Republicans win when you don't vote, and they get you to not vote by making it difficult, if not dangerous.

Just remember, not voting will only ever make things worse.

I cannot vote for you.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Privilege.

Not them tho, you. Your privilege is why you can't understand it.

Are you determined to not have allies of any kind?

I get that your state is fucked, but as a resident of one of the other 49 states, my options to help are limited as long as we lack one of the the chambers of Congress since the gop is literally the problem here.

We could try actually following thru with campaign promises and helping them, but for some reason we dont.

That would be because we don't have control of the House. It's difficult to get work done when the side in control of the button that stops everything from working sits on the fucking button while shrieking racist epitaphs at the top of their lungs.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Incorrect. In FPtP, the presidential race has only two options. Anything else is a vote for the candidate you don't want.

This has been proven mathematically.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The DNC is fucked and run by idiots, no argument. But voting as though you're NOT running a FPtP election when you are actually running a FPtP election is so stupid there are no words in the English language profane enough to describe it.

The system works one way. You play the game, or you get played by the game. Voting third party for president or Senate is not how the game is played, like it or not.

You want change? Vote in your local elections. That's where change starts. Do it enough, and get enough other people to do the same, and THEN you can change things up-ticket.

Play the game. Don't get played. Don't waste your vote. The other option these days is literally a fascist.

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