• Cris
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    52 hours ago

    Support ranked choice voting, and strategic voting becomes a thing of the past, allowing for greater variety of political representation.

    • @basmati@lemmus.org
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      335 minutes ago

      If you’ll take time to read things for the first time in your incredibly short ‘life’ you might notice this post has nothing to do with greens nor Republicans nor democrats.

  • @OmegaMan
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    I am a socialist and a vote for De La Cruz is a vote for Trump. Mathematics will never allow a third party to win in this country. Don’t let our ideals open the door for a fascist. Vote Kamala, and then try and get a socialist into office during the next democratic primary.

    • macabrett[they/them]
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      I can tell you’re not a socialist

      EDIT: because a socialist would understand class enough to know the democrats will never allow a socialist to gain power through their ranks

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        I can tell you’re not a realist.

        EDIT: because a realist would understand the current political landscape enough to know the republicans will never allow a fair election if given the means to prevent it

          • @Ultraviolet@lemmy.world
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            But that’s not up for a vote. What is up for a vote is whether we can continue to protest the genocide or be executed for voicing any opposition. Yes, it’s the equivalent of being robbed at gunpoint, but I’m not going to choose to be shot for a sense of moral superiority.

            • macabrett[they/them]
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              Now’s the time to pressure ending the actual genocide and not indulge in weird persecution fantasies.

            • macabrett[they/them]
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              This proverb only works under the assumption that Democrats are moving things in a positive direction. They are not. They are shifting rightwards, courting republicans, and fully endorsing a genocide. We are not eating the same elephant.

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                The proverb works when you realize that the Republicans will never allow the first bite to be taken. Not only are they fully endorsing a genocide, they are taking notes and pondering the best way to implement their own here at home. The elephant is the same, but instead of eating you’re flirting with being trampled by it.

                • macabrett[they/them]
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                  So what’s the elephant in your metaphor here? Is it ending genocide? Because the democrats are currently preventing us from eating that elephant. Is it communism? The democrats also won’t help us eat that elephant. Is it ending American Empire? Well, the democrats seem pretty against eating that elephant. Is is global liberation? Can’t possibly see the democrats joining us in eating that elephant, given the previous points.

                  I’m sure you’ll come back and tell me the elephant is “democracy” as if saying “you must vote for this candidate or democracy is over” isn’t already the end of democracy.

  • @invno1@lemmy.one
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    I like everything about their platform except this;

    cut the U.S. military budget by 90%, seize the 100 largest corporations

    I just cannot get behind that. I could see breaking up monopolies, taxing medium and large corporations way more, but seizing, nah.

    • @basmati@lemmus.org
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      42 hours ago

      All corporations should be eliminated or owned by the government, with only owner operator businesses being unowned by the government.

      Quite frankly profit motive is the most destructive force in human history, eliminating it should be the number one priority for any human wanting to continue humanity.

    • Cris
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      Seizing the 100 biggest companies seems like a good way for the government to end up running a lot of things it doesn’t actually want to be responsible for running, and by extension end up just running those things directly into the ground or selling them off to be privatized again

      There are things I think make a compelling argument for seizing, but not based on size, that seems like an awful idea. I live in NC, where there’s one company that provides power giving them a local monopoly. Also they love fracking. Duke Energy can go suck a dick. THAT kind of situation makes a strong case for seizing private entities and making them publicly funded infrastructure. Also taxpayers have funded so much internet infrastructure that we never actually got, that should probably also be national infrastructure 😅