• Nougat@fedia.io
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    8 months ago

    This comic depicts four people who couldn’t be bothered to pay attention to anything for ten years.

    I have no sympathy.

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      8 months ago

      That doesn’t help the cause though, in fact this exact attitude might be a pretty big part of why we’re all in deep shit now.

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          8 months ago

          Pay all the attention you want, it’s not like anyone was ever actually given the option out of this mess through the system.

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            I’m out of this mess through the system. They didn’t do shit to stop me getting on a plane and flying across the ocean last Monday to a more civilized part of the world. It has its own problems, but at least people don’t get into things like massive healthcare debt.

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        8 months ago

        Voting. They were given the option to vote, but chose to be the type that “don’t care much about politics”

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            8 months ago

            Sure buddy, Dems might be nearly uselesss because of that, but they weren’t actively trying to overthrow the goverment or kill democracy

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            8 months ago

            Did you ever canvass for any alternative candidate or do you expect them to just rise out of the ether?

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            8 months ago

            So replace the term “both parties” with “the only party” by categorically discarding all faith and worship in all political parties that have done absolutely nothing for anyone of the working class.

            Then make a new party that’s even better.

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              8 months ago

              That’s what the Greens and PSL elected to do. They’re the best way out that doesn’t involve bloodshed.

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                And I’m sure their policies would introduce runoff voting for future elections; but as it stands, most voters are currently voting out of fear of “the other big party” - for which voting Green poses an extreme risk.

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                  but as it stands, most voters are currently voting out of fear of “the other big party”

                  Which is a confidence game. The big parties only matter because people have been convinced that they matter. Once this illusion is broken, real progress can begin, but until it is broken the US will simply continue its vicious cycle into oblivion.

                  Besides, what chance to Dems have of winning at this rate anyway? What chance did they have leading up to this past election as they covered up Biden’s dementia, enabled a genocide, and imposed a candidate of their choosing after denying the people actual democracy? Are they redeemable?

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          Yes, yes they are. Actually the Republicans at least have the virtue of being honest about being evil. Dems are too craven to even admit that.