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minus-squarenaught101@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up18arrow-down3·3 days agoNot very practical while the US voting system is still first-post-the-post. Y’all need to fix that first.
minus-squareKillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 day agothere’s also a good chance that fixing it will simply fuck us even harder.
minus-squaremelpomenesclevage@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up21arrow-down3·3 days agolets just suck off the people currently in charge until they give up the thing that keeps them in power, then. yeah. that will work.
minus-squarenaught101@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·2 days agoI also don’t believe that voting is the answer to meaningful social change (though maybe it can be part of it in some contexts). But I was responding to a question that seems to.
minus-squarefrezik@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up18arrow-down1·3 days agoNow is the perfect time. Breaking with the Democrats mean they have to play ball now or get electorally buried.
minus-squarenaught101@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·2 days agoThey will chose that latter, for sure.
minus-squareEugene V. Debs' Ghost@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9arrow-down1·2 days agoIf the Dems don’t want to win an election, they don’t have to run a canidate.
minus-squarecrusa187@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10arrow-down1·3 days agoUnless it really works like it has the potential to. Then the repugs and dems would be totally cooked.
Not very practical while the US voting system is still first-post-the-post. Y’all need to fix that first.
there’s also a good chance that fixing it will simply fuck us even harder.
How’s that?
lets just suck off the people currently in charge until they give up the thing that keeps them in power, then. yeah. that will work.
I also don’t believe that voting is the answer to meaningful social change (though maybe it can be part of it in some contexts). But I was responding to a question that seems to.
Now is the perfect time. Breaking with the Democrats mean they have to play ball now or get electorally buried.
They will chose that latter, for sure.
If the Dems don’t want to win an election, they don’t have to run a canidate.
Unless it really works like it has the potential to. Then the repugs and dems would be totally cooked.