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'I'm right here': Trump struggles to find foreign leader sitting in front of his face
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I choose the lesser of two evils so I can feel smug as wealth inequality spirals out of control and the planet dies around me.
If more people did that my hard working tax paying really nice neighbors wouldn't have been deported to god-knows-where.
Yes—leave our friends & neighbors alone!
Yeah, it sucks that our population is so uneducated that they will just spitefully vote out the incumbent when the economy gets worse.
But no amount of blaming voters will ever win a race, the Democrats failed to manipulate the dumbass masses, it's the Democrats fault they lost.
As opposed to? Doing nothing? Voting to accelerate that process even faster? What do you think is going to happen next, now?
No dummy, i think we should discard the Duopoly and support a party that wants to IMPROVE things.
Maybe after the next milquetoast neolib fails to improve things (because they refuse to attack their owners), and the next Republican fascist takes over (because wealth inequalityjust keeps getting worse), and we can finally learn this lesson.
Because it's been happening every 4-8 years for the last half century.
You can do both... Most people are trying to do both. Harm reduction and improvement are COMPATIBLE STRATEGIES. If you think you have helped the world by refusing to vote for Kamala, then you have fallen for propaganda. Everyone is sick of the neolibs... Doesn't change that letting Donald Trump get elected was a deathblow to the United States
It's complicated by the fact that a deathblow to the United States is harm reduction for the rest of the world.
Idk, seems like fascism is spreading all over the world. Like it or not we are all linked. The problems we are having here will find their way to your homeland one way or another
It's being spread by the United States.
I voted for kamala
What, everyone supporting a new party? Wasn’t there a book called Tipping Point? Why hasn’t it happened yet with that?
I just don’t see how we can change the process, same as you, by everyone suddenly changing their minds before Trump dies setting a precedent for a third term. There aren’t enough Mamdani’s out there.
Just shooting the shit dummy, not shitting on you.
The irony of this comment calling out smugness.
I voted correctly last election, sucks our country's to fucking dumb to know what's best for them.
No amount of blaming voters will ever win an election
The "protest voters" did not meaningfully impact the election, no matter who the billionaire owned news tells you to be mad at.
Considering Trump's votes remained realitivlt steady and their was a huge decline in Democrats numbers I have to disagree on that.
Those were white boomer men/women and hispanic men who stayed home
But yeah fuck the youth, that was the Neoliberal messaging, not that a black woman was unpalatable ro the neolib base
Yeah honestly I'm waiting :3
There's more to civic engagement than voting
How do we civic engagement our way out of wealth inequality?
Going to pretend this is a genuine question in case someone else sees this.
First and most obviously: mutual aid networks, food kitchens, and other volunteer organizations are NGOs that provide literal relief from the immediate effects of economic inequalities.
Additionally, these programs can be used to build relationships with people that agree broadly on these issues and develop the education needed to get people on board with more radical change.
Second, engagement with local politics can be used to push political party platforms that are more beneficial to everyone. Yes, there is a ton of inertia to overcome, and national parties are heavily captured by capital interests, but a lot of concessions can, and have been, won at local and state levels. Again, even where this effort fails directly, it helps build the kind of connections needed to create the consent needed for more radical change.
Finally, and most Libby, yes, also vote. Every lever we can keep out of the hands of opposition is one that is harder to use against us later.
Voting is the least effective of these, but (until proven otherwise) there is still some power available to us through this method.