Comment on The starting salary for a new American Airlines flight attendant is low enough to qualify for food stamps in some states

• Natanael@slrpnk.net ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  … In places where you don’t throw your vote away by doing so

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  • FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You throw away your vote by voting Democrat and Republican.

    How badly do they have to fail before you stop doing so?

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    • bibliotectress@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Our system isn’t set up that way, so feel free to throw your vote away, but please don’t convince others to do that. Some of us don’t have the luxury of indulging in protest votes.

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      • FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Some of us don’t have the luxury of indulging in protest votes.

        Who is this us you’re referring to?

        Are you a billionaire? That’s the only group the Democrats are actually serving. The rest get pretty speeches during campaign time and broken promises after the election.

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    • Natanael@slrpnk.net ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I’m not from USA by the way.

      But you need ranked choice voting or equivalent for your vote to mean anything at all when there’s a few dominating candidates

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      • FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        My vote doesn’t mean anything in a two-party system.

        We’re getting fascists no matter who we elect.

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• chiliedogg@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  No, you’re giving half a vote to whichever of the 2 major-party candidates you hate more.

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  • FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    And you are actively participating in your own oppression, knowingly voting for a candidate when you’ve seen for four straight decades that either ruling party is going to make your life demonstrably harder.

    Do you like paying double for your groceries?

    Do you like that your rent is skyrocketing?

    Meanwhile they make hundreds of billions appear out of thin air for other countries’ wars.

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    • chiliedogg@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yep. All bad things.

      But the choices we have in a general election are:

      1. Vote for the candidate you hate least
      2. Not vote at all and accept whatever the worst candidates are doing to you
      3. Vote for a fairytale candidate (this and option 2 have identical results)
      4. Violent uprising

      The Trump cult is hard at work on options 1 and 4 while deploying millions of bots and thousands of bad actors to encourage everyone else to go with options 2 and 3.

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      • FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        What exactly are you expecting a Democratic vote to change?

        If the Democrats did their job Trump wouldn’t even be on the ballot, so your faith seems misguided to me.

        Vote Green instead.

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• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  In Germany, certainly

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