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[–] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 months ago (5 children)

Oh look, someone trying to push Trump on us. Bless your heart, you just think we're all idiots here.

No, they're not the same. None of us are buying it.

[–] GetOffMyLan@programming.dev 24 points 3 months ago

I don't think they're pushing trump. More saying Gaza is fucked regardless.

[–] Sodium_nitride@lemmygrad.ml 23 points 3 months ago

No, they’re not the same. None of us are buying it.

The American empire is the American empire regardless of who is in charge. Let's get off our great-man theory high horse and actually analyze material conditions

[–] minnix@lemux.minnix.dev 18 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Why is it so common that people assume if you don't like one candidate that automatically makes you a proponent of the other? Is it not possible for you to conceive that both candidates may be power-hungry human garbage?

[–] BallsandBayonets@lemmings.world 8 points 3 months ago

They're centrists, scared centrists, who recognize that political in-fighting can result in a split vote letting the party with less votes take the election. However in addition to being humongous pricks about it (helping the in-fighting), they fail to recognize two very obvious facts:

  1. Progressives don't have a candidate. In any party. You can't split the vote if there's no other option to split the vote with.
  2. The popular vote doesn't matter. Hasn't mattered since the Republican party stole the election in 2000 (if it ever mattered in the first place). There's somewhere between 3-6 states where the popular vote, if you trust it to be recorded and reported accurately, can swing the election one way or another. In the other 44 states, the popular vote does. Not. Matter.
[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 5 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I love how Americans are unable to comprehend that people outside the US exist and that internal US politics aren't the top priority for the rest of the world. The burger empire is a plague upon the humanity regardless of which piece of human garbage is at the helm of it.

[–] nova_ad_vitum@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I love how Americans are unable to comprehend that people outside the US exist and that internal US politics aren't the top priority for the rest of the world.

Pretty rich given that you do nothing but post about US politics lol.

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I really do wish the effects of US politics stayed within the US, unfortunately for the rest of us the actions of US plague the entire planet.

[–] UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 months ago

So you understand the flaws of First past the post voting? Why arent you working towards a more representative electoral system?