• VoxAliorum@lemmy.ml
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    America needs a change in the political system. However, I have no idea of American law and whether that is even possible with the current constitution. If it is, both parties have not shown any effort to democratize the country by allowing smaller parties to participate, but protected their asses. If that’s the case, enough pressure is needed to push for change.

    The idea of “democracy” is that all power comes from the people. I don’t see that in America.

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      Why would both parties change a system where both of them have 50% chance to rule? American democracy is ran by billionaires to benefit billionaires

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      … both parties have not shown any effort to democratize the country by allowing smaller parties to participate

      the democrats usually use the law to keep smaller parties off of the ballot legally to prevent smaller parties from participating.

      the republicans also do it, but it’s exceptionally rare and so understood that; effectively speaking; it’s the democrats who do it.

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      The way they pass laws that are then used by the republicans, it’s the battering ram that should be labelled

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    And we’re just going to continue to pretend that Republicans don’t exist. Because only the Democrats get judged around here.

    OP apparently doesn’t know what gaslighting means.

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      Democrats? I think I’ve heard of them, they were the ones insisting we had to support a genocide and then sending riot cops to beat us down when we disagreed, right?

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          No that was trump

          I was at UCLA during the Biden administration when the four armored pigs broke some college kid’s arm in front of me, you lying little worm. I still remember the sound.

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              Traitor is when you refuse to support Palestinian genocide

              I mean yeah, I proudly consider myself a traitor to Amerikkka. If you’re not at this point, you’re either ignorant to the point of uselessness or have something unfixably wrong with you🤷‍♂️. But seethe about it I guess

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          Apparently Trump is in control of the government even when the Democrats are in power. I’m that case, what’s the point of voting for the Democrats?

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    Oh are we already starting with the “democrats are just as bad, so dont vote in protest” memes again?

    Get the fuck out of here. This bullshit is why our country is what it is right now. Millions of people who voted Dem chose to not vote, and millions more repuplican voter did vote because of the election fraud bs pushing them to ‘outvote’ the dems.

    You wanna have a discussion about the problems with both sides? Save it for after the fascists are out of our streets, and back in the rat holes they belong in.

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    Ah yes the same people who abstained from voting or picked a “third option” and allowed Trump to take office. Na those people are just as bad a Trump voters.

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      Dems did more to put Trump in power than every third party and protest voter combined, and you’re still making excuses for them because you stand for absolutely nothing

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      Wait, so are we meaningless fringe weirdos who can be safely ignored, or are we powerful enough to sway an election? Because if it’s the former then you’re just scapegoating us for the colossal failures of the party, and if it’s the latter then that makes it even more inexcusable that the Democrats wouldn’t even not commit genocide to secure our votes.

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      I love these asinine takes. I’ve yet to have a single person come up with a convincing argument about how I helped Trump, but let’s see you give it a shot.

      I didn’t vote for Kamala(or Trump, before some braindead moron claims otherwise)

      I live in California.

      California historically has voted blue for the last ~60 years.

      Predictably, Kamala won California by a large margin like any sane person expected.

      So how did my vote help Trump? I showed my displeasure with the Democrat Party AND Kamala still got my states electoral votes regardless. So how, exactly, did my vote support Trump?

      Or is there actually a shitload of nuance to this issue that you conveniently throw out the window? This is a braindead MAGA level cope.