- Alex ( @ultra@feddit.ro ) 38•10 months ago
needs more jpeg
- joelfromaus ( @joelfromaus@aussie.zone ) English14•10 months ago
[softly] Don’t.
- conditional_soup ( @conditional_soup@lemm.ee ) 35•10 months ago
I don’t know how to feel about this election as an ameribro.
I’m left-libertarian (upper case left, lower case libertarian) on the political compass, which is practically not represented in US politics, so I’ll take whatever I can get. Biden is, realistically, the best I can hope for this election cycle. He’s not great, there’s a lot of big policy issues I diverge with him on pretty sharply (both on left and libertarian), but the other candidates for the DNC are a hot fucking mess. As for the libertarian party, it’s actually insane. Gary Johnson got booed for saying he’d want people to have driver’s licenses to drive. That’s a no go for me. And as far as the conservatives go, they run the gamut from not an instant disaster (I guess) to the loud, proud, and complete end of the republic.
Biden has at least done some things that I kinda like, and doesn’t seem keen on destroying the republic. I’d love to get a reformer in and sweep Reaganism out on its wrinkled, swampy ass forevermore, but I don’t think that’s realistic at this point. Where I start getting worried is that the Biden campaign seems dead set on repeating some frankly terrible HRC '16 strats, which, well, we saw how well that worked for her, but the pro-Biden response is “Trust me bro, Trump is actually unelectable this time”. I’m also concerned because, let’s face it, Biden’s old enough that he could get struck down with a stroke or what have you at any minute.* Every day, the cosmic dice are getting more and more weighted against him. The democrats have done very little to make a case for a possible candidate/president Harris, where the republicans have laid a LOT of groundwork against her. If Biden bites it or gets incapacitated, Harris is going to have a huge uphill climb in front of her.
I guess where I get uneasy is that it feels like the democrats are making a lot of avoidable and predictable mistakes, and they’re just banking that it won’t blow up in their face this time because, uh, what, that was that time, this is this time? They could do better, but they’re just going to choose not to, and be shocked if shit goes sideways.
*I mean, so could Trump, but I’m not hoping that he wins.
- Omega_Haxors ( @Omega_Haxors@lemmy.ml ) 2•10 months ago
Political compass is libertarian (that kind of libertarian) propaganda used primarily by neo-nazis. You should take anyone using it seriously.
- AlmightyTritan ( @AlmightyTritan@beehaw.org ) 1•10 months ago
I wish you the best of luck with your strategic voting, hopefully the lesser of two evils has some amount of representation for you.
I don’t really understand the US’ electoral system, but you guys seem really boned by the whole two party system. Like no wonder everyone is so grumpy and unsatisfied all the time when you guys seem to just have two big parties that span such wide gamuts of views and policies.
- conditional_soup ( @conditional_soup@lemm.ee ) 1•10 months ago
Basically, yes. Speaking as someone who’s voted third party before, there’s no hope of changing the system by voting third party at the federal level. Game theory on first-past-the-post elections and the absolutely insane amount of money in our elections practically ensures it. The best way to effect change there is to go to some form of transferrable vote or ranked choice vote at the state and local level. There are already some states whose electoral college splits its votes in this way, and the two main parties (and their big donors) hate it because it erodes their ability to take a state’s vote for granted and weakens their duopoly.
- Omega_Haxors ( @Omega_Haxors@lemmy.ml ) 12•10 months ago
Americans: “Voting 3rd party is a waste of a vote, you need to vote the lesser fascist or democracy is over”
Also Americans: [pencils in the stupidest shit to the point a fictional character wins the popular vote]
- ThePac ( @ThePac@lemmy.ml ) English8•10 months ago
Americans: “Voting 3rd party is a waste of a vote, you need to vote the lesser fascist or democracy is over”
This is unironically the truth.
- Omega_Haxors ( @Omega_Haxors@lemmy.ml ) 4•10 months ago
and they’re going to continue to dangle that in front of you until it happens.
- Honytawk ( @Honytawk@lemmy.zip ) 1•10 months ago
Nah, it is what the Republicans and Democrats want you to believe so they don’t lose power.
- neocamel ( @neocamel@lemmy.studio ) 6•10 months ago
Do you have a helpful statement?
- Omega_Haxors ( @Omega_Haxors@lemmy.ml ) 5•10 months ago
Use that fancy internet thing of yours to organize a mass movement and vote for a 3rd party candidate that represents the people.
- OmnipotentEntity ( @OmnipotentEntity@beehaw.org ) 4•10 months ago
Imo, pretty much all third party candidates are doomed to lose, no matter who they are, unless they have explicit backing of one of the two major parties.
The best thing to do is change the rules before you try to play by them. This means attacking the 2 party system by the actual weak link: the first past the post voting system. Run on and vote in candidates to the two parties who vow to dismantle it. Elections are run by the locally, so we can do this state by state, city by city. This is achievable and has already started in some cities.
- umbrella ( @umbrella@lemmy.ml ) 2•10 months ago
or to come up with and pressure for a better system in the first place
- Flaky ( @Flaky@iusearchlinux.fyi ) English11•10 months ago
Not just that, soon after the US election, the UK will be gearing up for their General Election. Latest is the end of January 2025 according to a quick search.
- conditional_soup ( @conditional_soup@lemm.ee ) 9•10 months ago
By all polls and sentiment, it seems like it’s going to be a goddamned bloodbath for the tories. I’m actually kinda pumped, I hope they get everything that’s coming to them.
- Flaky ( @Flaky@iusearchlinux.fyi ) English5•10 months ago
It’s going to be bittersweet in a way because of Labour not being particularly great either, but yeah, they’ve had it coming for a very long time.
- waka ( @waka@feddit.de ) English8•10 months ago
I feel the need to repost CGP Greys Playlist on Voting (or why the american version is so very very bad)
- Doctor xNo ( @doctorn@r.nf ) English8•10 months ago
Damn, I read election with an R at first and was already getting worried. 😅
I’d be nervous about that too
- JaymesRS ( @JaymesRS@literature.cafe ) English4•10 months ago
Is it going to last more than 4 hours?
- Muffi ( @Muffi@programming.dev ) 3•10 months ago
Nah, it’s going to cause cardiac arrest after about 8 seconds
- MarmaladeMermaid ( @MarmaladeMermaid@lemm.ee ) 2•10 months ago
So much more…
- kingthrillgore ( @KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml ) 4•10 months ago
I feel agitated.
- Archlinuxforever ( @Archlinuxforever@lemmy.3cm.us ) 4•10 months ago
So it’s wrong if we have elections like a normal democracy? Ok understood.
Its more a commentary on America’s frighteningly real chance of descending into a Russian sponsored fascist dictatorship. But sure if that scratches your persecution fetish I’m not gonna kink shame you
- Omega_Haxors ( @Omega_Haxors@lemmy.ml ) 1•10 months ago
descending into a Russian sponsored fascist dictatorship.
As opposed to an American styled fascist dictatorship.
- ILikeBoobies ( @ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca ) 1•10 months ago
For the enemies of Russia that would be better
- PureTryOut ( @PureTryOut@lemmy.kde.social ) English20•10 months ago
Tbh a “normal” democracy doesn’t only have 2 parties to choose from, none of which represents the majority of citizens. Your democracy sucks honestly.
- Archlinuxforever ( @Archlinuxforever@lemmy.3cm.us ) 1•9 months ago
Fuck you
- Dr. Jenkem ( @DrJenkem@lemmy.blugatch.tube ) English6•10 months ago
Least brain damaged Arch user
- Omega_Haxors ( @Omega_Haxors@lemmy.ml ) 2•10 months ago
You know what they say about Arch users.
- spudwart ( @spudwart@spudwart.com ) English2•10 months ago
Arch users speak for themselves.
- Honytawk ( @Honytawk@lemmy.zip ) 1•10 months ago
Nobody talks about Arch users except Arch users themselves.
So no I don’t know what they say about them.
- Archlinuxforever ( @Archlinuxforever@lemmy.3cm.us ) 1•9 months ago
Fuck you
- KrummsHairyBalls ( @KrummsHairyBalls@lemmy.ca ) 3•10 months ago
It’s wrong that if a president is doing a really good job, the majority like them, they still only get 8 years maximum before they are forced out.
How about voting people out when they start to do a bad job, not because the timer ran out? Change just for change sake is stupid.
- dangblingus ( @dangblingus@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 2•10 months ago
Based on current polling, Trump will wind in a landslide. People are fucking stupid.
- sciencesebi ( @sciencesebi@feddit.ro ) 2•10 months ago
Great. He’ll be the first incarcerated president.