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[–] Hiplobbe@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago

Yes exactly that mentality is part of the problem.

[–] terabyterex@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (3 children)

i vote every single time. i say both sides are the same but i dont mean politicians..i loved obama. i was fine with biden, just wish he was younger. would still vote for him even if he was a corpse because... it would be better.

when i say both sides i mean the bitches online. the people in real life are pretty normal.

online you have facist christians and facist islam lovers. i cant say muslims because they arent actuallyuslims, they are people who say they are left but embrace an intolerant people who behad gay people. so they are the same. everyone who picks a side (right/left) online is a facist

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[–] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

There's a lot that goes into the choice of a President, starting way upstream from the actual Presidential vote - after all, there are 340 million of Americans who could be President, so clearly there is a lot of choosing going on outside the actual vote to trim that down, otherwise the Presidential election vote would have a lot more than just 2 real options.

Sadly a lot of Americans seem to have been brainwashed into a sort of learned blindness were they think of the actual election vote as the entirety of the choice, not really pondering on the rest of choosing that must be going on to go from 340 million possibilities to 2.

Posts like this one are elements of the very propaganda used to convince Americans that their only power as citizens is in that one single moment were somebody else already trimmed 340 million down to 2 and a loud spectacle is made of them having the choice of 1 out of those preselected 2.

If one doesn't allow oneself to be swindled into such a reductive view of Democratic choice in America, it becomes pretty obvious that the vote itself does very little of the choosing and that have more of the choice one has to at minimum participate in Primaries, better yet do things like campaigning, even better be part of civil society groups, go on demonstrations and even distribute pamphlets and put up posters denouncing the actions of the worst politicians (such as getting money from AIPAC).

People who genuinely want to improve the way America is run wouldn't relentlessly try to artificial reduce the view that others have of the process down to the smallest and least mathematically significant part of it.

That most people being brainwashed into thinking that selecting between the last 2 is all that matters massively helps those doing the biggest and most obscure part of the choosing to retain said power and not be questioned for it, probably explains why the Propaganda pushing for the hyper-reductive take on the choosing of a President is so relentless and intense.

[–] BaraCoded@literature.cafe 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)

No, actually, both sides are bad. American bipartism is a trap that only benefit the Epstein Class, who are both rep and dem. Destroy the dems, replace them with a true Left. Go for Mamdanis and such.

[–] agent_nycto@lemmy.world 6 points 6 days ago (6 children)

Oh cool and while we're getting around to that, we can maybe like, not let Republicans have power anymore?

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