• Blackmist@feddit.uk
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    4 hours ago

    ☐ Genocide and things stay pretty much the same

    ☐ Extra genocide and things get worse

    ☐ Waste vote (get extra genocide anyway)

    “Democracy”

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      2 hours ago

      Its almost like money and first past the post elections only serve to narrow down political options.

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          Getting mad at people for not being willing to condone a genocide is a really wild take to me.

          If you’re saying that genocide over there is okay so that genocide over here doesn’t happen as quickly then I don’t really know how to argue that.

          We got to this point because the Democrats themselves have been toothless for much of the last 25 years, and prop up the same system that the Republicans are fast tracking even more. The dems did not lose this election just because of the Gaza vote, they lost it because they wouldn’t listen to or support the regular people on the street. Dems had the chance to enshrine things into law - they controlled senate and house for the first two years of Biden. They did not codify any protections for trans rights or abortion rights, then used both as a fundraising event.

          Over 50% of white men and women voted for Trump this time around.

          So instead of getting mad at people who could not conscientiously condone a genocide, why not get mad and dismantle a system wherein a few billionaires get to buy the entire world and commit genocides on a massive scale? The US has been bombing half the world for almost its entire history. That doesn’t change because Republicans are in power or Democrats are in power.

          The current system is between ultra rich and everyone else. If everyone else keeps shitting on each other that won’t change.

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        3 hours ago

        I can see the golf course now, wasting more water than Nestle just to keep the greens in shape.