• jwiggler@sh.itjust.works
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    3 months ago

    No offense dude, but I think you are pretty ignorant about American leftists. I mean, you’re completely right that we’re having to dismiss an atrocity and vote for a genocidist and that the system is fundamentally broken. But that’s common knowledge in the US lol, even across the aisle. Politicians are bought and sold, ask any semi-informed citizen in the US, right or left. It’s just that most people are too busy working to fucking LIVE to think there is anything we can about it, or they’ve been brainwashed to think that’s how it should be (top down something or other…)

    Shit is fucked here. Nobody’s trying to hide it, like I didn’t just “say the quiet part out loud.” Obviously America is fucked, obviously the Democratic party is fucked. But I’m still gonna vote for Harris because America can still get worse and the Republican party isn’t just fucked, its absolutely fuckaroo’d.

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      3 months ago

      Serfs and people working 13 hour days found the time to organize for revolution while working for depressed imperislist wages. Working without a doctor less than a day a way. Working without any transportation aside from their own two feet. Walking 10-20 miles per day when fighting militarily.

      The US left us not weak because it faces long or harsh working conditions. It is weak because it has bought into liberalism. It is fully propagandized and is convinced of its own anemia. And, if anything, it fails to fight because it is comparatively overcompebsated, living off of cheap goods provided by the working poor of other countries. The US left does not riot over shortages because there usually are none and when there are they just take it. They are disorgsnized, so they have no voice. They are miseducated, so they parrot the logic the ruling class tells them to follow (such as your logic in voting).

      Now that a larger, whiter proportion of the US working class is proletarianizing through high debt, high commodity prices, lower wages, and longer hours you are seeing forms of radicalization. We should be building on that, not carrying water for the genocide of Palestinians. Feel free to check whatever voting box you want, but don’t tell me you’re “leftist” for doing it, lmao.

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      3 months ago

      So not even any consideration of voting 3rd party? The concept that voting 3rd party is throwing away your vote is perpetuated by the 2 parties that want to stay in power. It’s easier to focus on one opponent, but the more people become comfortable with other options, the harder it is for the 2 parties to bullshit their way into power.

      • jwiggler@sh.itjust.works
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        3 months ago

        I’m definitely not voting RFK Jr’s antivax ass. I mean he’s a Kennedy. Still an elite in power.

        Anyways, 3rd party candidates historically never have a chance. Ultimately if it were really my choice, the only parties we’d have are idk street parties. Because there’d be no government at all, or temporary governments when the need arises, or something more creative than the dumbass shit we have now.

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        3 months ago

        If you’re seriously suggesting voting third party you do not understand how voting works in the US. It is literally a wasted vote – even if 60% of the nation voted for a third party, the delegates are already pledged to one of the two main parties. The correct place to put that energy is in local elections and in a nationwide push for ranked choice or some other alternative to FPTP.

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        3 months ago

        2 parties are the Nash Equilibrium of our system. We’d love to vote for other candidates, but we can’t beat the math.

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          3 months ago

          What is the math on how much your political opinion needs to be accounted for when you are an automatic lever pull for a given party?

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.mlOPM
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      3 months ago

      This sort of rationalizing by people who claim to be on the left is precisely what perpetuates the system.The dems know that when push comes to shove, you’ll all go and vote for them no matter what they do.