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I talked about it 3 days ago: https://lemmy.ml/comment/16009412
There's less vote discussion going on right now. You want me to continue shilling Claudia de la Cruz anywhere I can?
Third party or bust. Republicans and Democrats are the same.
Spoken like someone who hasn't gone out of their way to review both party's voting history or criminal conviction history, or hell, even bothered to pay attention over the last handful of years.
Anyone that says Republicans and Democrats are the same and uses a fucking picture to support their claim is intellectually lazy.
Two things not being particularly great do not, in any way, make them equivalent. And the fact that you think a 3rd party is going to magically save us and be uncorruptable is so naive it's comedy gold.
And what, exactly, does "3rd party or bust" mean? 3rd party or we let a felon rapist who stripped women of a human right, incited an insurrection, and illegally attempted to overturn an election be our leader again?
Goddamn, such an ignorant comment. You are 100% part of the problem.
The picture carries more weight than you let on. Obama was one of the leading personalities in the party, which supposedly is some radical force for resistance and change against the MAGA fascist movement. And yet there he is, giggling along with Trump with no barrier or reservation. This actually disproves the myths about his character entirely, whether or not you want to acknowledge it. You can disagree with that, I'm sure you will, but frankly it just speaks to your lack of insight, and I'm not going to argue with you about it.
Re: Republican and Democrat "sameness". Obviously they are not exactly identical. But your perception of their difference is the outcome of brainwashing. Every theory that views them as opposing forces, instead of a kind of mock opposition inside of a uniparty, absolutely breaks down when you examine their virtually complete consensus on global oppression, foreign invasions, domestic totalitarianism, and so on. If your theory cannot account for their consensus on being a force of oppression against the entire world, the U.S. population included, your theory is incorrect.
They are not owed your vote. Our responsibility as a population in a so-called "representative democracy" is to select the best candidates - preferably ones that will amend the Constitution into a direct democracy. You are correct that corruptibility is always a risk - but Green & PSL being corrupt in the future is theoretical, while the Democrats and Republicans have proven their corruption beyond a reasonable doubt. It is Democrat and Republican voters who have abdicated this responsibility, and the entire world is burning as a result.
Did you see that team Xs favorite popular man talked to team Ys favorite popular man at a funeral of a colleague, instead of punching him in the throat, like twitter assured me would happen?
lets deep dive on the implications.
The whole sarcastic tone here is making it harder to clearly infer what you're trying to say.