was voting and presidency meant to feel like a Pachinko machine? (or Peggle) where you launch the balls, and you are separated by acrylic and have no control past the first bounce.
I don’t quite get why you’re being downvoted because that’s honestly how I feel, and I don’t even live in the U.S. I feel like it applies pretty well to Sweden as well. At least there are options here that are like a 60% match with my personal viewpoints, but there’s no such thing as a perfect fit.
What’s important to note is that people have been doing it according to your politics for decades, and it has produced the situation we’re in right now.
It kind of seems like the lesser of two evils and pied piper strategies are actually closer to being the tracks in this metaphor, not the people who refuse to vote for Fascist Lite.
Yeah, this is what always bothers me about the vote shaming crowd. Yes, we need to reelect Biden because Trump is a literal fascist who will end American democracy, but we need to have a hard look at how we got into this position, starting with Democrats embrace of neo-liberalism in the 90s and ending with the fact that the party is running a candidate that 67% of their own voters didn’t want on the ticket. And no, Biden and Trump are not the same, but George W. and Obama were pretty damn similar, as well as Clinton, Regan, and the first Bush. If the Democrats don’t start offering and actual progressive alternative to the right, we’re just going to keep doing this until a more competent fascist finally wins.
Amen, if the fascists don’t kill me for being a Palestinian, it’ll be the white leftists giving me a fatal aneurysm lecturing at me about how letting the fascists win again will totally help my cause that I just want to feel assured that my government isn’t looking for ways to officially enlist the Klan as a morality police.
Those train tracks are the non-voting, bOtH pArTiEs ArE tHe SaMe LoL aMiRiTe idiots.
was voting and presidency meant to feel like a Pachinko machine? (or Peggle) where you launch the balls, and you are separated by acrylic and have no control past the first bounce.
I don’t quite get why you’re being downvoted because that’s honestly how I feel, and I don’t even live in the U.S. I feel like it applies pretty well to Sweden as well. At least there are options here that are like a 60% match with my personal viewpoints, but there’s no such thing as a perfect fit.
What’s important to note is that people have been doing it according to your politics for decades, and it has produced the situation we’re in right now.
It kind of seems like the lesser of two evils and pied piper strategies are actually closer to being the tracks in this metaphor, not the people who refuse to vote for Fascist Lite.
Yeah, this is what always bothers me about the vote shaming crowd. Yes, we need to reelect Biden because Trump is a literal fascist who will end American democracy, but we need to have a hard look at how we got into this position, starting with Democrats embrace of neo-liberalism in the 90s and ending with the fact that the party is running a candidate that 67% of their own voters didn’t want on the ticket. And no, Biden and Trump are not the same, but George W. and Obama were pretty damn similar, as well as Clinton, Regan, and the first Bush. If the Democrats don’t start offering and actual progressive alternative to the right, we’re just going to keep doing this until a more competent fascist finally wins.
Amen, if the fascists don’t kill me for being a Palestinian, it’ll be the white leftists giving me a fatal aneurysm lecturing at me about how letting the fascists win again will totally help my cause that I just want to feel assured that my government isn’t looking for ways to officially enlist the Klan as a morality police.
Wow, what a shitlib you are. /s
the tracks are capitalism.
weve been on this track for a long time, through republicans and democrats in power.
Your iDiOtIc CaSe is no substitution for a valid counteaargument. Neither of your parties represent the interest of the people. Get a third one.
Americans have two ethical choices in the upcoming election:
That’s it. Voting 3rd party without changing the system prior is not an ethical choice, for it enables fascism.