• nummy@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    18 days ago

    Some Americans will justify not voting by using Palestine as an example. Well, yeah, your dems suck too but it’s not a reason to not take action. Voting is easy enough, and at least it really works. Fantasizing about the Revolution won’t do shit.

  • ViceroTempus@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    17 days ago

    Vote Blue, just don’t forget that we are still likely going to need to take to the streets and take action anyway in case Republicans do not step down peacefully, or they ratfucked your state’s elections.

    Never forget that Republicans broke the social contract between us and our government by ignoring Due Process and breaking the very foundations of the trust in our legal system. They should not longer be protected by said Social Contract, they do not get to have Due Process after they wiped their asses with it.

    • Agent641@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      17 days ago

      No fanboying for any politicians, ever anymore. Not Obama, Biden, Newsome or Mamdami. They just need to shut the fuck up and do their jobs. Give them no rope, If they aren’t doing their jobs right, demonstrate, protest, strike, fuck their week up until they do their job. Being competent shouldn’t be treated as being exceptional.

      • Folstar@lemmus.orgEnglish
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        17 days ago

        Yes, and be sure to call anyone who disagrees a monster and idiot. Bonus points if after calling them an idiot you say something factually wrong like you’re dropping truth bombs. Then step outside and enjoy a victory smoke, the weather is wonderful this time of year in Moscow.

  • BooBees@fedinsfw.appEnglish
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    18 days ago

    Not only don’t listen to the “both parties are the same” people - get them out of your life, block them, move on to giving your time to people who believe in change. It’s not naive to believe in making progress, it’s naive to think it won’t take hard work and have lots of setbacks.

    • AreaKode@riskeratspizza.comEnglish
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      18 days ago

      Both sides are the same. In that they both serve the Epstein class.

      But one side wants to give you health care.

      The other side wants to let you die because Line Go Up!

      • whosepoopisonmybuttocks@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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        17 days ago

        The wild thing is that republicans are conservative and democrats are centrists.

        By “both sides,” people seem to mean right and middle.

        Can we have an actual left?

        • edible_funk@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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          17 days ago

          Yes but the only realistic way to do it is to tea party the dems left by running progressives and primarying incumbents and voting strategically in every single election. But, and this is the part where it all falls apart, progressives mostly don’t vote.

      • 18107@aussie.zoneEnglish
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        18 days ago

        One side is:

        • raping children
        • murdering US citizens
        • dismantling the healthcare system without the required approval
        • bragging about tampering with voting machines
        • starting trade wars and
        • starting actual wars.

        The other side, for all their faults, are not doing all that.

        • Formfiller@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          17 days ago

          But they are enabling it and sending an insane amount of money to a genocidal, fundamentalist, child trafficking colony that uses its excess wealth from this corrupt system to keep supplying weapons and money to continue an ever expanding genocide. So that’s not great

            • Formfiller@lemmy.worldEnglish
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              17 days ago

              Yes but I’ve been voting blue no matter who for over 20 years. My parents and grandparents died voting blue no matter who for thier entire lives and things keep getting worse and more corrupt and fascist. We need a revolution. These politicians aren’t scared of us and that’s a real problem