• fuck_u_spez_in_particular@lemmy.world
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    5 hours ago

    Votes do matter… Would’ve voted just a few more against Trump, we wouldn’t be in this (I think at this point global) mess…

    Should they matter more or should the “democratic” process be quite different (more deliberate), yeah…

    At this point though, we need big protests, I agree. Also just to wake up all those (not entirely lost) MAGA idiots…

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      2 hours ago

      Hubris is thinking a few liberal voters in america could abate a global trend toward fascism without fundamentally changing anything about our broken capitalist system.

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        Right, the trend so far isn’t very good, and I agree the (capitalistic) system needs a fundamental change, though electing the obvious (seemingly for half of USA not…) Auto/Idiocrat is definitely not helping…

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          55 minutes ago

          Democrats’ inability to address what voters were actively demanding is why not enough people turned out for them.

          Even in political terms, snubbing the Students for Justice in Palestine at the convention and refusing to let them speak was possibly the worst campaign decision of the last decade.

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      we wouldn’t be in this (I think at this point global) mess…

      We were in this mess before the election

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        Not in at this level though…

        Right now it’s not even clear if there is another meaningful election. And I don’t think I have to mention what happened just in the last few months since the inauguration of Trump…

        This wouldn’t have happened when Harris would’ve been elected, I’m sure of.

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          Before the election:

          1. The U.S. was funding, arming, and providing unqualified political support for a genocide.
          2. Democrats had no significant plans to address climate change.
          3. The U.S. was deporting huge numbers of immigrants, using the same agencies and facilities that are in use now.
          4. Democrats had no significant plans to address wage stagnation or the cost of housing, healthcare, and education.