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Agree with the philosophy, but stupid that she's running for president. Until/unless we change FPTP voting the only the Democrat and Republican running even matter and if you don't explicitly vote for the one then your are implicitly voting for the other.
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I don't begrudge her campaign. Making noise on the national level is a good way to elevate the message and slowly undo the demonization of socialism. It's her supporters acting like Harris is the same as Trump that chap my ass.
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Consider it from the point of view of the millions of under educated working poor.
they live in a state of precarity and they are being told trump is bad apparently because of ‘project 2025’ or some other nebulous concept.
Thats not gonna land with them. They don’t have the luxury of considering the dangers of “dismantling the administration “ under trump. They need to pay the rent and buy groceries and care for their sick, before they can weigh the relative morality of the candidates.
They wake up, they see rich people getting richer and their life getting harder 24/7/365 and they see no one doing anything about it .
This is why the Dems never get it .
Working people are too hard up to worry about a power struggle between the super rich and the ultra wealthy.
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That's democracy. She's allowed to run for POTUS.
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Nobody ever said she couldn't. Do you go outside and yell at the clouds?
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Fptp is never leaving, and the US will continue with ts rightward slide until balkanization finally separates the incompatible parts of this country they from each other by force. That being said some want to have hope things can get better, and doing the same thing that failed to work for the last 100 years seems to not be the way to do that.
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Why?
Other countries with FPTP have fringe candidates that almost definitely won't win elections, but influence politics considerably.
Arguably, Nigel Farage is the most influential politician in the last decade of the UK for his role in pushing Brexit, all while being in no less than three different political parties. He only recently won election as a MP on his seventh attempt, but media backing and taking disenfranchised votes from idiots basically allowed him to dictate internal policy for both main parties.
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There are 650 MPs in the UK, and unlike ind the US it isn't winner-takes-all; if you win one of the 650 seats you get to be an MP
In the US presidential election, there are 50 states for a bigger population and even then winning one while losing the others achieves nothing
In the senate and house elections, which are more analogous to the UK, independent candidates are viable, right? There's at least a few. But it's not comparable to the Presidential elections
FPTP is fucked, but it's only one element of why the USA is deadlocked into the two major parties being the only contenders. The electoral college, the winner-takes-all nature... all sorts
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I'm certain the dems and Republicans will vote to end their strangle hold on us politics in just 1 more election cycle!!! Our maybe the next.... or maybe the next.....
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End of the day we are the dems. We are the repubs. Get out these and vote.
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When, I think of "socialism," I think of modern day Scandinavian health care, not Soviet-era Russia. Who do these pants -wetting idiots think they're scaring?
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Some more about why the Nordic model isn't socialism:
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Scandinavian healthcare isn't socialism though, that's part of the problem.
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When, I think of “socialism,” I think of modern day Scandinavian health care, not Soviet-era Russia.
One of the upshots of the Great Patriotic War producing so many invalids and disabled veterans was a Soviet state dedicated to providing top quality public services for its veterans. An entire municipality - Rusinovo - was built to cater to the blind, in order to accommodate the number of Soviets who had lost their sight to chemical weapons and other injuries. It became a model for a host of disability-friendly improvements to cities the world over, and you can still find them if you know where to look. The Tokyo subway adopted the Rusinovo model for raised, guided pathways, for instance. And audible signals at crosswalks and in city metros are common mass transit features globally.
After the fall of the USSR, much of the country was privatized and subsequently looted by the Yeltsin-friendly oligarchs who endorsed the coup against Gorbachev. Rusinovo was one such target for looting. The school for the blind was defunded. Factories specifically geared to allow blind workers to participate in the manufacturing center were shuttered and stripped for parts. The transit network was gutted.
Who do these pants -wetting idiots think they’re scaring?
Post-Soviet Eastern Europe is regularly held up as the consequence of Soviet Economics taken to their logical conclusion. So you'll routinely see Western politicians point to states like Estonia or Solvakia or the shattered remnants of the Yugoslavian Republic as proof of the Failed Socialist Experiment.
What you don't typically hear is the rapid deterioration that occurred after the USSR was dismantled and partitioned off under Yeltsin. Or how much of the Soviet Era wealth was stolen by mafiosos and corrupt agents operating on behalf of western business interests and rival espionage agencies nce the Iron Curtain was torn down.
In some sense, its a lie. "Look at how awful it is now! That's because of the socialism they did back then."
In some sense, its a threat. "Try socialism again, and you're next."
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Well, considering the election results in Europe and the US, they are scaring a whole lot of people.
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Who do these pants -wetting idiots think they're scaring?
The boomers who grew up during the Cold War and who continue to have better voter turnout rates than Millennials, even as the latter generation sneaks up on their 40s.
Like...I don't agree with their policies, but their tactics are objectively effective.
This isn't an endorsement of conservative fear mongering but rather calling out my fellow Millennials, who've recently surpassed boomers as the most populous generation in the US.
Show up and vote, god dammit.
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who continue to have better voter turnout rates than Millennials
One of the biggest determining factors of enfranchisement is home ownership. Boomers got to plunder the real estate that prior generations had extracted from the First Nations. That land was commoditized and collateralized such that subsequent generations had to pay an enormous premium to get access to it.
Subsequently, home ownership rates after the Boomer generation plunged. More and more property is monopolized by business conglomerates and simply rented out rather than sold. People move more often, chasing lower housing costs and higher wages. So they never develop a local identity, join a local political party, or invest in the long term interest of the community where they reside.
They don't know who their politicians are or why they should vote for any of them. So they don't participate. And then they leave an area rather than fight to defend it if the political leadership starts fucking the place up, because they don't own any of that land anyway.
Show up and vote, god dammit.
The Boomers vote with their ballots.
The Zoomers vote with their feet.
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Ah yes scandinavian healthcare where I can't get my doctor to give a fuck about my back pain because people under 30 don't have back pain obviously
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Rec...? Recre...?? Recreation? Is that like fun or something
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Probably when you're supposed to be "hustling" or "grinding," or whatever the nomenclature is now for trying to make survival sound cool.
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if you aren't actively making other people's lives worse you are failing
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And internet. Basic internet connection should be a human right at this point. It's infinite free education at your fingertips.
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Admit it, you just want infinite memes
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Bruh you know me too well
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It’s infinite free education at your fingertips.
And that is 1 of the top 2 reasons they won't let that happen.
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Not under Capitalism, at least, hence the importance of PSL.
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That's why gen Z is so smart.
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tell that to m'uricah, oh wait cant because two party system
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C'mon man! Joe tried to forgive your student loans! He just couldn't.
Right now Joe is trying to hook me up with the most beautiful woman in the world. She's smart as fuck. She's got tiddies and bobbies and is very shapely and athletic. She's got a job. And she's totally into me. Anyway Joe is doing a great job. The only issue is that it's been hard for her to contact me for the past 4 years. But Joe will be trying his darndest! I already told my wife and she's voting Democrat too.
On the other hand Trump really wants to get rid of us. I think he's voting for my wife. But neither of us are voting for him.
That's how it works. I don't have time to think about others and their socialism... with their needs to be filled like student loans and child care and food when they're in their 90s. Nah na no. Wait hold on, I gotta get the hatchet 🪓 again, the long arm of the law is trying to grab my wife by the pussy again. I think they want to ban wet wipes now.
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C'mon man! Joe tried to forgive your student loans! He just couldn't.
Right now Joe is trying to hook me up with the most beautiful woman in the world. She's smart as fuck. She's got tiddies and bobbies and is very shapely and athletic. She's got a job. And she's totally into me. Anyway Joe is doing a great job. The only issue is that it's been hard for her to contact me for the past 4 years. But Joe will be trying his darndest! I already told my wife and she's voting Democrat too.
On the other hand Trump really wants to get rid of us. I think he's voting for my wife. But neither of us are voting for him.
That's how it works. I don't have time to think about others and their socialism... with their needs to be filled like student loans and child care and food when they're in their 90s. Nah na no. Wait hold on, I gotta get the hatchet 🪓 again, the long arm of the law is trying to grab my wife by the pussy again. I think they want to ban wet wipes now.
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that's my president(ial candidate) :)
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Mine too.
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Every time someone says the phrase 'spoiler candidate' I sabatoge another mail ballot. Eat shit lesser evilists, your voting pattern is why the current election has gone from a lesser of two evils to the lesser of two genocides. Whats the next election going to be, the lesser of two nuclear wars? Y'all hate democracy but you lack the balls to say it, so you attack anyone who uses their democracy in ways other than you. You're the reason for this electoral situation and yet you insist only your way will get us out? Spare me the jokes, it's like trying to dig upward.
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No, it's just a fundamental, inescapable fact of your voting system that voting for a candidate that won't win, instead of voting for the candidate who might win and you'd prefer over the other most likely candidate, is a vote for the candidate you'd prefer less.
Please look up the spoiler effect earnestly (cgpgrey has a passable video on the topic). It's not the voters fault they're forced into voting for candidates that aren't their favourite, it's the voting system's fault.
Edit for your convenience: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3Y3jE3B8HsE
As a citizen of one of the US's vassal states, I can't vote, but this shit affects us all, as the US is the world overlord. A trump presidency would be devastating, in my point of view.
Please fucking vote for the Dems if you'd prefer them over the Republicans. Please learn how your terrible system actually works. This vassal begs you.
Oh and campaign to improve the voting system so you can actually vote for the candidates you like best.
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No, it's just a fundamental, inescapable fact of your voting system that voting for a candidate that won't win, instead of voting for the candidate who might win and you'd prefer over the other most likely candidate, is a vote for the candidate you'd prefer less.
Neither the Democrats nor Republicans are acceptable.
Please look up the spoiler effect earnestly (cgpgrey has a passable video on the topic). It's not the voters fault they're forced into voting for candidates that aren't their favourite, it's the voting system's fault.
Correct, the system will never change without revolution.
As a citizen of one of the US's vassal states, I can't vote, but this shit affects us all, as the US is the world overlord. A trump presidency would be devastating, in my point of view
So would a Harris presidency.
Please fucking vote for the Dems if you'd prefer them over the Republicans. Please learn how your terrible system actually works. This vassal begs you.
Neither major party is acceptable. You don't fix a bleeding wound by adding another.
Oh and campaign to improve the voting system so you can actually vote for the candidates you like best.
Will never work, because the Capitalist system maintains itself and will not allow its power to be wrested electorally.
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