• Ann Archy@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      “If you don’t give me something better, I’ll default to the objectively worse choice and fuck myself over out of spite.”

      Conservative logic. Except it’s a lie, the only way you’d vote for anyone but a corporate fascist is if the other guy was an even bigger corporate fascist. You are 100% fine with the status quo, because you happen to profit from it. Or fear, could be straight up fear.

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        The logic you’re using is really dumb coming from someone not in the ruling class.

        Your one bit of power is to say, “I’ll vote for you if you put forth a candidate I can get behind.” The second you accept the terms of “you have to vote for X, because Y is worse” you lose all political power. They can do anything they want. They can lie about anything. They don’t have to do anything to fight for your vote.

        I’m just sick of this smug bullshit from people practicing “real politik”. You don’t live in a democracy, you’re openly admitting it, and you can’t even see it.

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        1 year ago

        And they’re always going to offer you a slightly better, but immensely shitty choice. It’s not conservative logic on their end, it’s battered spouse syndrome on yours.

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        1 year ago

        If the system shows nothing but contempt for the people, it shouldn’t be surprised when the people reciprocate that.

        The people don’t need America, America needs the people. They have zero responsibility to save the failing system from itself.