• M0oP0o@mander.xyz
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    6 hours ago

    This statement is so american it makes my head hurt. Two parties is the reason you don’t have a democracy, and the instant “if not then you are anti my team” response shows how dead your democracy really is. Without even the ability to have a third option you don’t have a democracy, you have a red vs blue dictatorship.

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      4 hours ago

      If someone won’t vote against fascism they are against me, yes. If you think that’s an American take, I’ll accept the inaccurate compliment.

      Without even the ability to have a third option you don’t have a democracy, you have a red vs blue dictatorship.

      I mean, literally what primaries are for, but yes, our democracy is dead. Ranked choice voting is necessary. The senate flies in the face of proper representation.

      you have a red vs blue dictatorship.

      You don’t know what the word dictatorship means.

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        If someone won’t vote against fascism they are against me, yes. If you think that’s an American take, I’ll accept the inaccurate compliment.

        See that is the issue, not having a choice other then status quo or fascism is not a real choice and you doubling down on the team bullshit is just sad. Nether of the current parties should exist and in almost every other nation these parties would have been put out to pasture long ago. If you are just voting for the not fascist then you are voting for the ruling party, its not a hard concept.

        I mean, literally what primaries are for, but yes, our democracy is dead. Ranked choice voting is necessary. The senate flies in the face of proper representation.

        Primaries are run by the 2 parties and everyone in the world can see they are not fair and clearly fixed to some degree. We are in agreement that your democracy is dead, but I am stating that it has been dead for a long time and it’s been doing damage world wide (like a really bad weekend at Bernie’s).

        You don’t know what the word dictatorship means.

        A dictatorship is a form of government which is characterized by a leader, or a group of leaders, who hold absolute or near-absolute political power. Just because you have two groups take turns does not change the fact that the us is run by a group of leaders who hold near-absolute power (now with no checks or balances!).