• barsquid@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      I sympathize with being sick of bothsidesers, but I don’t think that’s what I’m doing here. The justice system is unfair as it is. Dems aren’t doing enough but Repubs want to make it even worse. If youths came out to vote in every election we wouldn’t be stuck with these two choices, but there is very clearly just one sane choice.

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        3 months ago

        If youths came out to vote in every election

        They did, and their candidate lost anyway. Too many olds spread across too many districts.

        Maybe if you can convince a few hundred thousand Youngs to move to Wyoming…

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          Every election. The parties cannot count on the youth vote. They both seem to be acting like they don’t care what youths want. I am assuming a correlation there. Unfortunately it’s correlating in both directions.

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      3 months ago

      A leftist that points out inequality inherent in the system? What a strange thing to encounter on Lemmy. I’m positively flummoxed as to how this came about.

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        3 months ago

        If you ask anyone from .ml, I’m not even a leftist. I am pretty dead set against Donald, whereas they (and Bibi) want Donald elected.

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            I want that. The ones telling people to vote for Jill Stein don’t want less genocide, they want Donald and more genocide. They want Ukraine to lose all support also.

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                    No, she won’t. And hopefully I voted for viable candidates down the sheet because I’ll have lost that vote.

                    She’ll be president if enough voters to overwhelm the EC’s red shift vote for her. Which will not happen with FPTP. There are 46 examples of this not happening over a couple hundred of years. Including her, specifically, in 2012 and 2016.

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                  you literally accused people who said they want Jill Stein to win of lying and actually wanting another candidate to win. that’s bad faith.

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                    They do. They know she doesn’t have a chance. So they are using their vote to say, “I don’t give a fuck if we have the current amount of genocide or even more. I don’t give a fuck about Ukraine. I don’t give a fuck about women’s rights or SCOTUS accepting bribes and flying traitor flags. I don’t give a fuck about insurrection. I don’t give a fuck about the crime and corruption of the Repubs.”

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        3 months ago

        Leftists carrying water for fascists? Definitely not a strange thing to encounter both on Lemmy and in history.

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      3 months ago

      It isn’t a “both sides” thing, it is a class thing. The wealthy never face consequences unless they personally perform some heinous act, and even then it isn’t guaranteed.