• Synapse@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    Because the French voting system is flawed, the politicians are corrupt and the choices we are given to vote for presidents are anything between ultra liberal capitalism and full-on fascism…

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      7 months ago

      Also your right to protest is well protected.

      If you try to protest in the US like France you might as well fucking die lol. Either the cops are going to shoot you or you lose your job after day 4 or less of protesting and your kids starve / you can no longer pay for the gas to get to the protest.

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        7 months ago

        Correct. I think bundling health insurance with employment is primarily to force everyone to work and artificially lower the cost of labor, but a side benefit of forcing everyone to live paycheck to paycheck is they have no time to agitate for change. Also you will be pepper sprayed in the face or beaten half to death by goons backed by the state.

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          7 months ago

          That bundle of insurance or benefits with work was originally a fringe benefit to inflate value of positions iirc, but in current times yeah I think you got it.

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        7 months ago

        I’ve not missed a single vote since I’m 18yo, but I understand people who are too fed up to go vote, sadly…

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          7 months ago

          You understand idiots who are giving the game away because not getting a unicorn out of it makes them amgy?

          You can be frustrated, but if you then choose not to vote you’re just feeding the problem out of spite.

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            7 months ago

            It doesn’t matter how frequently someone votes, if they don’t fake an orgasm at the prospect of their choices being shit and worse shit, some centrist will lecture them anyway.

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            You sound like some who has never voted.

            Last time, I forced myself to vote for Mister Money-for-the-rich despite the fact I hate everything he wrote in his program, I thought I was doing the right thing by participating to “blockade” Miss Nazis-did-nothing-wrong.

            Well, just a few months later, it was the elections for parlement représentants and the winning president and his “Party of rich”, they just fucked all of us right up in any circonscriptions they got eliminated, they just stated publicly “don’t vote for the commies ! They are a danger for the democracy ! (Vote for the Nazis instead, we like their ideas better, but you didn’t hear it from me lol”.

            Now we have Mr Money-for-the-rich as president and Party of rich has the most sits (but no majority) and they are the danger for democracy as every time they fail to vote a law they proposed to fuck us deeper (despite getting help from all the racists on the right side of the room), they use a loop-hole to make it law without vote.

            So, yes. I understand someone who doesn’t want to get up and queue 2 hours on a Sunday morning to go vote for a person who will ultimately humiliate you at every occasion he has.

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              You sound like someone who doesn’t have any skin in the game if the Nazis actually win by voting when you didn’t.

              Lemme guess, you’re someone who twists with fury whenever Americans point out the Roma situation when you talk about how not racist Europe is compared to America because, “that’s different they deserve that!”

              I get it, you and other non voters aren’t idiots, you’re the white communists who knowingly gave up the names of French Arab resistance leaders to the Nazis as the front line began to push back towards Germany again because nobody but you is allowed to control the “we kept out the Nazis” field.

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                7 months ago

                You might be projecting yourself a little bit too much here, my friend. I am a voter, I never missed a vote in my life since I am 18yo. And I don’t know what you’re on about with your 4-chan copy-pasta.

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          I understand it, but it’s still pretty dumb.

          People whine (rightly) about money in politics. You know what that money is used for? Propaganda and media and campaign staff to get votes.