• Set_Status_Online@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    Really tired of “both sides bad.” Political change should not be moving fast and breaking things.

    Right now we have a hole to dig out from. We need to get to the point where we can vote for the people we really want.

    By not voting you say that everything is fine and you are okay with the status quo.

    Vote for the change we need right now. Do not let our future slip away.

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      Genuinly curious. With your plan to vote for the democrats to dig out of the hole the US has dug itself, how will you be able to vote for the party that you want to vote for later?

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      The only reason you wouldn’t want to break things right now means you still think there is good in the system. The system is working as intended and absolutely needs to be broken so something better can be made.

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      We need to get to the point where we can vote for the people we really want.

      You people have actual short term memory loss

      How many more of these stinking, double-downer sideshows will we have to go through before we can get ourselves straight enough to put together some kind of national election that will give me and the at least 20 million people I tend to agree with a chance to vote FOR something, instead of always being faced with that old familiar choice between the lesser of two evils?

      -Hunter S Thompson, 56 years ago

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        • we find here two great gangs of political speculators, who alternately take possession of the state power and exploit it by the most corrupt means and for the most corrupt ends – and the nation is powerless against these two great cartels of politicians, who are ostensibly its servants, but in reality exploit and plunder it. *

        Frederick Engels 135 years ago

        That shithole’s banana republic politics is the longest running gag in history.

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      This is the most political-history ignorant comment I’ve read in a very long time.

      How do you think people have rights?

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      “We need to vote for change and to dig ourselves out from this hole!”

      -Proceeds to vote for Democrats, who change nothing, and dig the hole deeper.

      “Oh well, my memory will have reset long before the next election comes around, so we can do it all again!”

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          It’s been a multi year mockery of common sense while even thinking of discussing common good being screamed out of the room by folks screaming over listening. It’s been common and weird while certain folks lean into it…

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            What’s the common sense? Is it “we must vote, literally sign our approval by name, for a genocide?”