• Smoogs@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    Just How stupid does one have to be to think all their woes exist with only one generation? There are far bigger monsters alive today in current younger generations (many in millennial) that are far more destructive to our lives and the earth. They’ve seen more $$$ than any boomer and will laugh at you while you live out of a garbage can.

    And you’d still probably be posting stupid memes like this acting completely oblivious to the burning hell around you.

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              7 months ago

              Then you’ll be the one getting called the leader of two evils

              It’s the violence inherited in the system. (And yes, that’s a Gen-X timeframe related quote (in a deep meta ironic sort of way)).

              AKA, what goes around, comes around.

              But still, it’s worth doing. Better to solve your own problems, versus waiting for somebody else to solve them for you.

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          Or write in someone you believe would actually be good at the job. Then you don’t have to vote for someone you believe to be unqualified.

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              7 months ago

              …as long as choice #3 isn’t apocalyptically bad, right?

              Right?

              That’s only true if everyone believes that, a self-fulfilling prophecy.

              Would really be fantastic to see just once, one time, everyone interconnects on social media and agrees to vote on a third party, as an experiment if nothing else, to finally prove/disprove that theory.

              Funny enough these newer generations have this communicative interconnectivity of the Internet available to them, that previous generations didn’t have, but they don’t seem to use it, instead they just share mene pics/vids, etc.

              Could you imagine the political earthquake though if a third party actually won? Would be glorious to see.

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                The problem there isn’t that we (assuming the US) don’t want third parties, it’s that our voting system encourages party consolidation rather than cooperation. That only gets more true the higher in the government you go.

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                  The problem there isn’t that we (assuming the US) don’t want third parties,

                  That’s not true. People don’t vote for third party because of the self-fulfilling prophecy, but it doesn’t mean they don’t want it. They also want ranked-choice voting.

                  I would advocate to put that self-fulfilling prophecy to the test, even if just as an experiment one time.

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                    I think you’re agreeing with me there. People want other choices, but they get ignored because they have no chance of winning.

                    It would be great if we couple coordinate and just try it one year, but change needs to be able to happen gradually too. Our system in practice actively punishes third party voting by your vote benefiting the major party you DON’T want.

                    I bet people would want ranked choice or similar if given the option. I think the establishment really doesn’t like that idea and actively works against it, though.