Dear USians : memes

[-] blady_blah@lemmy.world 26 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

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[-] Contemporarium@lemm.ee 10 points 4 days ago

The funniest thing about non Americans is that they think most of us don’t fucking know this. It’s so annoying

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[-] mstrk@lemmy.world 35 points 5 days ago

Honestly, I read this thread and can't comprehend how a civilization as advanced as the United States of America thinks that defending a binary choice of democracy is a good thing to do... It's impossible to represent a country with a few million people like that, imagine ~300M. Anyway, keep going at each other's throats for your party color... smh.

[-] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml 36 points 5 days ago

It's not an advanced civilization, they have slavery enshrined in constitution.

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[-] AFC1886VCC@reddthat.com 36 points 5 days ago

Neither party will ever willingly give up the two party system, as they both benefit from it. At some point Americans need to start backing third parties or everything will just continue to go in circles indefinitely.

[-] Z_Poster365@hexbear.net 26 points 5 days ago

That, and do some non-electoral things if you're picking up what i'm putting down

[-] Empricorn@feddit.nl 32 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

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[-] DoiDoi@hexbear.net 35 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Good thing chuck schumer and the dems are out there leading the resistance by... uhh.... making sure the left is pro-genocide and sending record levels of bombs to conduct said genocide. Hell yeah dawg that shit's awesome and exactly what we need from the people who totally oppose Hitler 2 in office and will do everything in their power to stop him

[-] hamid@vegantheoryclub.org 31 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Downvotes are disabled on my instance; multiple people think you wrote something inane. I have no problem replying to you telling you that you live in a dictatorship of capital where both sides are the same but you are so propagandized and ignorant you can't even see the truth right in front of your nose. One side enables the other, the US functions as a whole. The democracy there is kay fabe and predetermined. You don't get a vote for the board members of Goldman Sachs, Citigroup, Blackstone, Raytheon etc.

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[-] Sibshops@lemm.ee 34 points 5 days ago

It's kind of why we need Ranked Choice Voting.

[-] dessalines@lemmy.ml 39 points 5 days ago

Alternative voting systems have in practice been proven useless, whether in South Korea, Japan, Australia, and many other capitalist dictatorship countries that use it. It might make bribery a bit more expensive, since there are more candidates to buy off, and more political advertising necessary, but it hasn't fixed anything.

The root problem is capital standing above political power. And that can't be undone using it's own platform.

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[-] umbrella@lemmy.ml 35 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

i live somewhere with mandatory voting, and have looked into places with ranked choice. it doesnt do much.

the problem is capitalism and the rich's interests being paid for instead of ours. not how the ballots are made or counted.

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[-] SsxChaos@lemmy.ml 8 points 4 days ago

Finally someone who speaks the truth, however humans are a lost case, you can't un-slave mentality without changing the people.

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