• vmmv@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    The purpose of this is not to make a comparison between two ill suited politicians (Trump being the far worse), but to erode trust in democratic institutions and to prevent you from even paying attention and voting. Nothing is stopping anyone from electing an independent politician, without red or blue affiliations.

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      9 hours ago

      The purpose of this is to mock people who believe that voting for the puppet on Wall St’s left hand is somehow a better deal than voting for the puppet on the right hand.

      The thing eroding trust in Democratic institutions is the continual enshittification of life via Neoliberal policy that keeps on progressing regardless of which puppet won the most recent popularity contest.

      The entire system and the entire billionaire owned media is absolutely stopping people from electing independent politicians, in any kind of numbers that might change anything.

      How broken is your moral compass that you think supporting a genocide can ever be a lesser evil?

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      1 day ago

      Nothing is stopping anyone from electing an independent politician

      If you’re going to lie at least try to make it remotely believable

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        1 day ago

        What makes you think I’m lying? I don’t know your ballot, but I’m pretty sure there is more than just two options there, no? And not just thr presidential ones.

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        1 day ago

        Don’t forget the guillotine! Its high time to bring it around the many demonstrations being organised, don’t you think? :)

    • It is an admirable thing, in a politics possessed of a moral floor, to believe one can change the system from the inside, that with enough respectful prodding the establishment can be made to bend, like that famous arc, toward justice. But when, after decades of such thinking, decades of respectful prodding, the condition one arrives at is reticent acceptance of genocide, is it not at least worth considering that you are not changing the system nearly as much as the system is changing you?

      — Omar El-Akkad, One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This