• vmmv@lemmy.world
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    18 hours ago

    The purpose of this is not to make a comparison between two ill suited politicians (Trump being the far worse), but to erode trust in democratic institutions and to prevent you from even paying attention and voting. Nothing is stopping anyone from electing an independent politician, without red or blue affiliations.

    • It is an admirable thing, in a politics possessed of a moral floor, to believe one can change the system from the inside, that with enough respectful prodding the establishment can be made to bend, like that famous arc, toward justice. But when, after decades of such thinking, decades of respectful prodding, the condition one arrives at is reticent acceptance of genocide, is it not at least worth considering that you are not changing the system nearly as much as the system is changing you?

      — Omar El-Akkad, One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This

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      6 hours ago

      Nothing is stopping anyone from electing an independent politician

      If you’re going to lie at least try to make it remotely believable

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        6 hours ago

        What makes you think I’m lying? I don’t know your ballot, but I’m pretty sure there is more than just two options there, no? And not just thr presidential ones.

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        5 hours ago

        Don’t forget the guillotine! Its high time to bring it around the many demonstrations being organised, don’t you think? :)