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So we can have the same rodeo again in 4 years, yaaaay!
Better than a guaranteed loss, right?
How many elections that are "the most important" until people notice that representative elections don't work? (Even in non-fptp electoral systems)
The problem with liberal democracies isn't that representatives are elected, its who those politicians represent. It's not the working class, except when it is and those politicians get Salvador Allende'd 💀.
Still, better to vote for the candidate that will ensure that forms of political action besides voting will continue to be legal
Funny use of the word "ensure".
Every election is important, if they weren't why even hold an election?
In US politics it's always "if the dems don't win, then it's the end of the free world".
Remember last time? You guys got pretty close to an actual real life coup d’etat. How many more constitutional crises do you think you can dodge?
You bet your ass the next VP candidate will be vetted to “do the right thing”.
Not the free world; just America as a mostly-free state.
Lol. As if the dems don't slide into fascism. Cop City is bi-partisan.
Best not to vote then? Best to let the guy win who has promised on the campaign trail to make the lives of trans people, women, immigrants, basically everyone who isn't a straight white male, as miserable as he possibly can, and not put up even a token resistance against Israel, because the other guy isn't resisting Israel as hard as we'd like and is therefore just as bad?
I hate Biden too but not voting is not the solution.
Never claimed it was.
Incomplete sentence.
You're not going to take any action to make things better during those 4 years? Why not?
I wonder how many of the "vote blue no matter who" crowd participate in direct action.
Well, well, well. If it isn't the exact non-answer I was expecting to get from that question. (Albeit with more spelling mistakes)
I'm not from the US, smartypants.
To answer your question: Electoralism is IMHO a waste of time. I'd ratherbe politically active e.g. in a union.
So? You're snarkily commenting on the actions of a US citizen.
The fact remains that there's work to be done by the people and it will either happen under Biden or Trump.
One of those options is clearly more inhabitable than the other.
You being from another country and sowing political discord isn't the gotcha you think it is.
You were asking me what I was about to do in the coming 4 years, probably concerning US politics.
Again: You were adressing me.
It's not about inhability. It's about a system that's in constant peril of sliding into fascism isn't worth defending.
I'm not trying to do that. This is an international meme community about politics (nowhere it's specified that it's exclusively about US politics). If I'm not allowed to show my political beliefs here: where can I show them?
Trust me: I'd rather no nothing about the politics of that failed state. But here we are with the world police noticing that it has - like all police - a fascism problem. 🙄
Yeah, shame on me for assuming you were commenting on something that mattered to you. Egg on my face for not recognizing that you're just cackling from the sidelines.
Then you're either saying there's no way to fix that system (which is pointless and petulant). Or that there's work to do beyond voting to make those fixes (which, see my previous comment)
Then frankly, it's not clear what you're actually trying to do. Whatever it is, its coming off as pointless and annoying at best and deliberately divisive at worst.
I beg to differ: POSIWID
The system is beyond saving and is working as intended. Build dual power outside of electoralism. Incidently: that's what I'm planning to do.
Fancy, semantic way of getting right back to my point which was "this system bad > change to different system".
Is that clearer for you?
Only until you vote in better people. Then it's a periodic duty to pick the course of your country.
Like we could do too if we got rid of the bathroom fixation and all the anti-science pro-oil blowhards and hillbillies.
I wont hold my breath