• TheObviousSolution@lemm.ee
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    19 hours ago

    Yeah, because people should vote on excitement and engagement, not truth … totally doesn’t devolve a democratic process into one of reactionary populisms fueled by false promises. If people want to get excited, they should go to a theme park. If they have a shred of civil responsibility, they vote, specially when things were as bad as they were.

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      7 hours ago

      because people should vote on excitement and engagement, not truth

      What part of the genocide wasn’t true at the time of the elections?

      reactionary populisms fueled by false promises

      Like codifying Roe V Wade? Like closing Guantanamo?

      If they have a shred of civil responsibility

      Civil responsibility is voting for the party that pretends to care about Gazans while carrying out a genocide and funding Israel.

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      7 hours ago

      because people should vote on excitement and engagement, not truth

      What part of the genocide wasn’t true at the time of the elections?

      reactionary populisms fueled by false promises

      Like codifying Roe V Wade? Like closing Guantanamo?

      If they have a shred of civil responsibility

      Civil responsibility is voting for the party that pretends to care about Gazans while carrying out a genocide and funding Israel.

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      19 hours ago

      If people want to get excited, they should go to a theme park.

      Welcome to America!

      If they have a shred of civil responsibility

      lmao

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        19 hours ago

        That’s the thing, when most of society laughs at that, the chances of having any sort of democratic process work drop to nothing.

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          18 hours ago

          Americans have the most individualist “fuck you I got mine” ladder-pulling-upist culture in the entire world. Maybe someday we’ll have a cultural revolution and come out the other side less anti-social, but in the meantime if you want anything done in this country you’ve got to convince people that there’s something in it for them.

        • KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          17 hours ago

          its as simple as this, if you don’t respect democracy, you don’t deserve democracy.

          Go vote, or shut the fuck up and accept your fate, those are your two options. Don’t come crying to me when you realized you voted for a fucking loser. Make a better choice next time.