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Should I vote? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 2 weeks ago by babysmokesalot@sh.itjust.works to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Should I vote Republican to slow down full blown let it all hang out fascism because I don't want to vote Democrat? I am trying to hack a machine that just needs recycled. What a dusty old thing. I have had it with both. The more both parties go at each other the greater the odds of a environment ripe with revolutionary potential. Like I know things are only going to get worse. Has anyone else thought of being a obstructionist? Like some how I am removed from the material conditions. Voting reminds me of the plaform at 3:10.

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[+] babysmokesalot@sh.itjust.works -8 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

The USA is not a democracy is my opinion. Have you seen the platform?

[–] just2look@lemmy.zip 22 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Ummmm...which platform? The republicans don't even really have a platform anymore.

And if you don't think it is a democracy, why would you vote at all? Still seems like voting republican is the dumbest possible option of all the choices you could make.

[–] gary_host_laptop@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 weeks ago

eh, both parties have the same platform? are we reading different news outlets? because since i have memory both parties want the same. at least from my pov in the third world, i've seen both rape, pillage, destroy, carpet bomb, kill civillians, commit the worst imaginable massacres done by humans. maybe you're talking about petty little shitty policies in home to keep the proletariat in check? i still don't see a big difference in their policies. reply to me when the us isn't trying to slave debt my country.

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 weeks ago

The USA is not a democracy

This question is not relevant: you're not voting based on how the country is now, or was last week. You're voting based on how the country should be, each time. You're picking the least-bad leader out of a small set of options, based on whether they're even marginally better.

In this case, a LOT of alternatives are better than the current setup, so I don't understand the dilemma.

...thus, the suspicion about trolling.