• itsgroundhogdayagain@lemmy.ml
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    I do not trust Americans to “do their own research”. I’ve seen how that has gone in the past. Too many Americans do their own research while scrolling Facebook from the toilet.

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      “do their own research”

      That’s redneck for “I found someone that agrees with me on the Facebook”.

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      Research requires a critical mind. Think of a person you know that has average intelligence, 50% of people are more stupid than that.

      And I’m not saying that stupidity is solely an issue for the republican electorate, I’m just saying “do your own research” is an unrealistic expectation.

      People need to be engaged with.

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        More to the point, people need to not be told they’re stupid for not already understanding everything there is to know about the theory you’re peddling by a person who has taken some pains to avoid explaining any aspect of that theory.

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        Satan himself could’ve posted that and he would still be right. Rather than being busy shitting on people for being the wrong kind of people who is right, you should shit on a people voting actual, literal Nazis ans facists into power.

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    Four years ago we gave it a stay of execution. Until we fully purge the fascist and focus government to actually serve the people, we are going to keep finding ourselves in chaos, until China beats us to and at everything.

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    I get why people say you “have to” vote against someone in a First Past The Post voting system. What I don’t get is the inaction from the democratic party on changing the voting system between elections.

    I wish the democrats had one tenth the urgency they claim to have. Democracy is one election away from falling… wouldn’t you want multiple chances to defeat the republicans every election?

    Democrats are so full of themselves, they won’t accept that they might have to step out of the way to prevent the republicans from ruining this country. This fight is greater then the democratic party. They should start acting like it by pushing to get rid of FPTP voting in the states they control.

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      What I don’t get is the inaction from the democratic party on changing the voting system between elections.

      1. The Democrats didn’t secure a large enough majority in previous elections to overcome Republican resistance to changing things like FPTP voting or the electoral college.

      2. There is a lot of contention within the Democratic party (at the federal level at least) as it shifts further towards the right in an effort to remain in power. Getting rid of FPTP voting would make it harder for centrist/right leaning Democrats to remain in power.

      Several states have switched to RCV for some of their elections, and progress has been slow, but it’s being made. If you want to see more, elect people that prioritize implementing better voting systems.

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      Democrats are so full of themselves, they won’t accept that they might have to step out of the way to prevent the republicans from ruining this country

      you mean like biden did?

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      that’s why we keep being forced to chose between the lesser of two evils; it’s still evil either way

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      I see what you are saying but I don’t think that’s the problem. The problem is the media turning everything into a dramatic fight for freedom. It happens on both sides and it is always us vs them.

      Americans need to stop believing what they are told and do there own research. Additionally, we need more factual sources of information. (Spoiler: the national news isn’t one of them)

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        do there own research

        Aye, they could maybe start with researching there spelling lol

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      Have fun with that. But last I checked, lots of us don’t have the freedom to just migrate across the globe to a region that isn’t collapsing and this would spell misery and anguish for countless people across the globe.

      (Yes, if the U.S destabilizes, further global power imbalances will follow.)

      So giving up and pretending to take the high ground over it isn’t exactly in anybody’s best interest.

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        If you wouldn’t even take this bare minimum risk of death to end genocide then you were never really against genocide to begin with.

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        The US collapsing is in the world’s best interest. If the collapse of the US causes chaos then it’s what the US deserves for causing chaos everywhere else for so many decades

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          Again .ml user syndrome all pro-soviet and pro-china at least anti-capitalism

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            If being against genocide is being pro-soviet, pro-china, and anti-capitalism, then maybe those are the right positions to take.

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            Defending the US is defending an evil imperial death machine. You just can’t see that because the death machine benefits you

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              The anti-capitalist isn’t the bad thing ,but a thing I have seen in absolutely all .ml users even the good ones.