Comment on American workers are tired of waiting.

• Mulligrubs@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  That’s their job on the tag team. One side stands for “the right”, it can be Ds or Rs (they have switched sides a couple times).

  You’re not stopping one by voting in the other.

  I will vote Democrat in the upcoming election… but know the game, and the players. The Ds aren’t going to fix anything, they are damage control (for now).

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  • agent_nycto@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I mean, yeah. I feel that is shifting though, because now we’ve got MAGA and full on white supremacists in power, so it’s kinda not the same as it was with “oh yeah they are both the same” like the 90s and 00s.

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• Goferking0@ttrpg.network ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  One causes harm and the other says that harm only needs 10% fixing

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  • Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    One causes harm and the other says that harm only needs 10% fixing

    And then doesn’t fix it at all.

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    • Goferking0@ttrpg.network ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      And then doesn’t fix it at all.

      sorry that has to wait until after next election or we won’t win the election

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  • agent_nycto@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    So you think we should let the people who want to do maximal harm have office. Got it.

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    • Goferking0@ttrpg.network ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      The point of the meme is that it is the situation we are in where neither party is doing anything to help workers.

      So you think we should let the people who want to do maximal harm have office. Got it.

      In the elections since Reagan was elected president both dnc and gop have rushed farther right. We’re at the point dnc and dems are trying to run as the party and ideals of saint reagan.

      Neither party gives a shit about workers and everytime that is brought up we get shit like this said that oh well you just want the GOP to win

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      • agent_nycto@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Bruv, everyone knows neither party gives a shit about workers. And nobody likes the Democrats, not even Democrats.

        No one is here saying Democrats are great. I am most definitely not saying Democrats are great. I have no love for the doormat party.

        Buuuuuut

        The reality of the situation we’re in right now, as things are, is that they are, effectively, the only other political party than Republicans. The Green party, libertarians, the communist party, everything else, they don’t have any political power. Right now, you might see some in lower offices if you’re lucky.

        You know, because of the whole “winner take all, also that’s how elections work” thing.

        And since the Republican party is, quite obviously, doing a fascism…

        IF YOU DON’T WANT FASCISTS IN OFFICE YOU HAVE TO VOTE FOR THE PEOPLE WHO CAN WIN AGAINST FASCISTS IN THE ELECTION. (And also do other stuff outside of voting but we’re talking about voting and elections specifically here not community building and other stuff you should also be doing not just voting)

        So yeah. The DNC sucks. It’s right wing while pretending to give a shit. It’s still capitalist. It still does war. It’s not what you want and that sucks.

        But you’re gonna have to eat that shit sandwich because they are the only people who are running against the overtly fascist party and winning. They know it, you know it, and until there’s a viable third party that starts winning against both of them, until we get national ranked choice voting, until gerrymandering is illegal everywhere, that’s the situation we’re in.

        So yeah. We know they suck, don’t care about st Regan, and it’s really shitty to hear, but yeah, if you don’t want more fascists in office, sorry, you gotta vote for the capitalists.

        One thing that you can do (outside of Luigitime or everything else outside of voting we’re talking about elections here) is make sure you vote in the primaries. People overlook them and you can try to get the most left person you can on the ballot. Or run yourself for office, maybe you’ll win and be the first third party president ever, idk.

        But for fucks sake don’t be part of the 33% of people who didn’t vote.

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• imetators@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Choose between broken legs and arms or a lobotomy. One is clearly less harm.

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  • gtrcoi@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Uh. Yea? I’ll take the broken limbs. Problem?

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    • Goferking0@ttrpg.network ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Cool now you have broken limbs that don’t get repaired properly so either get infected or heal in ways that make them unusable

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      • gtrcoi@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Hell yea, not brain damage. Sign me up.

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  • BeardededSquidward@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    When you say it that way, boy, am I happy to vote for the break all my limbs and put me into months of recovery I cannot actually afford because of this party’s policies, party.

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  • Goferking0@ttrpg.network ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Cool now you have broken limbs that don’t get repaired properly so either get infected or heal in ways that make them unusable

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  • agent_nycto@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Yeah. Both are a lot of harm. One is less bad though. What’s your point?

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    • imetators@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      My point is that wouldn’t it be better that, instead of harming you, one or both would try to help you live your life? You know this is a possibility.

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      • agent_nycto@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        If wishes were horses, beggers would ride. We don’t live in that reality yet, so while we’re building that, I’m going to do the care minimum effort thing of voting to not let more of the fascists have power.

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