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Low-hanging fruit 🥱 (lemmy.world)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 112 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It's a low hanging fruit, but I mean... The tree doesn't have a lot of higher fruits, and they're not as tasty anyway.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Sure we have plenty of high-hanging fruit:

antiquated voting laws
asymmetrical representation
oligarchy via political funding
military industrial complex

But we didn’t start a world war that killed millions of people, that we’re still digging up unexploded munitions from, and that gave us the ability to fix some of our governmental systems and implement social and societal change (at least for white European folks).

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Yet, but you can still elect Trump again.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

The first 3 I listed are why, yes. And it sucks that the Supreme Court and some dudes 250 years ago put us in this situation.