• emeralddawn45@discuss.tchncs.de
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    2 months ago

    Long term, its a solution to neither candidate supporting your values. It shows that you wont blindly support whoever is barely less bad. If your vote counts at all (which it pretty much doesbt) then you cant tell people not to vote for whoever is closest to their values. You should be telling the candidate to listen to their voters.

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      2 months ago

      Long term plans that will fail if you let the system break before those plans have a chance come to light. You’re trying to fine tune a system that’s in danger of falling apart. We need to make sure the system doesn’t fall apart before we can worry about tweaking it.

      Candidates should listen to the voters, but we need to be realistic on how and when we can make moves. We need to look at the situation and see how we can best move the needle in the right direction. If you let evil men come into power as a result of your rigid morals than you are actually helping create what you hate most. You want the needle to move all the way to good, you won’t take just %10 better, and as a result things may get much worse.

      The road to hell is paved with the best intentions had never been more true.