• assassin_aragorn@lemmy.world
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        6 months ago

        How far did you read about the French Revolution before you closed the book? Because it certainly seems like you read the part about overthrowing the rich and then stopped reading about what happened next.

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          6 months ago

          Let’s be honest: nobody actually reads history. If they did they would know that the citizens of Paris eventually burned the guillotine because it had killed so many people.

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        6 months ago

        Are you doing the work to make it happen or just waiting for one to come around?

        Besides, voting until (lol) it happens would make a ton of sense.

      • agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works
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        6 months ago

        ~ average leftist who understands the voting mechanism.

        Vote Democrat until “You’re voting 3rd party? Everyone knows D and R are the only viable options” becomes “You’re voting R? Everyone knows D and 3rd party are the only viable options”

        Republicans have been strategically big-tenting for generations, leftist-unity is so embarrassing it’s become a meme.

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          6 months ago

          This. If the republican party crumbles, Democrats could become the right party, with Progressives as the left. At least then we’d have two parties with ideas and an interest in governing.

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            6 months ago

            I doubt I’ll live to see a world where leftist policy is truly mainstream, but I think I might live to see a world where the Democrats are the far-right party.

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              6 months ago

              Orange guy wins and you’ll likely live to see first hand a recreation of how the Nazis turned Germany into a dictatorship…

              Very well may be the last vote you ever make that even matters a little.

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      6 months ago

      Yes. Voting for the ones the duopoly and their rich owner donors let people vote for clearly isn’t working.