silence7@slrpnk.net to politics @lemmy.worldEnglish · 20 days agoYou can stop asking where the mass opposition is. It's everywhere.www.motherjones.comexternal-linkmessage-square231fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
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minus-squareBoofStroke@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·20 days agoIt’d be nice if all of these protesters had bothered to vote and not with protest votes.
minus-squareCileTheSane@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up0·20 days ago“proper action wasn’t taken in the past therfore I won’t accept any action being taken in the future.”
minus-squareKairos@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkarrow-up0·20 days agoI think these people are the ones to have voted.
minus-squarejonne@infosec.publinkfedilinkarrow-up0·20 days agoIn the US system it doesn’t matter how you vote except in like 7 states.
minus-squareDragonTypeWyvern@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up0·20 days agoWell, that wouldn’t be true if everyone voted, but it does bring up the point that winner take all is just a bad representative system.
minus-squaretechnocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·edit-219 days agoThere is no such thing as a good “representative” system.
minus-squarejordanlund@lemmy.worldMlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·20 days agoWhat makes you think they didn’t? 75 million people voted for Harris. We likely won’t know the count of today’s protests, but I feel safe saying it was far fewer than 75 million.
minus-squareBilliam@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·20 days agoThe estimate was 5 million people across 1300 cities. A lot of people complaining about these protests seem to think that level of coordinated protesting isn’t impressive. Those numbers alone should make anyone stop and think about what’s going on.
minus-squarejordanlund@lemmy.worldMlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·20 days agoIt’s going to get bigger as people’s 401Ks evaporate.
minus-squaretechnocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·edit-219 days agoIt would be nice if there had been non-fascist duopoly candidates to vote for. But here we are.
minus-squareChrispyswords@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·19 days agoLet’s not forget that there are more than two choices. I understand there is certainly a duopoly, but that only continues as long as we continue voting for only one or the other.
minus-squareJohn@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·20 days agoOh look, another liberal blaming eveybody and anybody except the traish-tier Democrat platform/candidate.
It’d be nice if all of these protesters had bothered to vote and not with protest votes.
“proper action wasn’t taken in the past therfore I won’t accept any action being taken in the future.”
I think these people are the ones to have voted.
In the US system it doesn’t matter how you vote except in like 7 states.
Well, that wouldn’t be true if everyone voted, but it does bring up the point that winner take all is just a bad representative system.
There is no such thing as a good “representative” system.
What makes you think they didn’t?
75 million people voted for Harris. We likely won’t know the count of today’s protests, but I feel safe saying it was far fewer than 75 million.
The estimate was 5 million people across 1300 cities.
A lot of people complaining about these protests seem to think that level of coordinated protesting isn’t impressive.
Those numbers alone should make anyone stop and think about what’s going on.
It’s going to get bigger as people’s 401Ks evaporate.
It would be nice if there had been non-fascist duopoly candidates to vote for. But here we are.
Let’s not forget that there are more than two choices. I understand there is certainly a duopoly, but that only continues as long as we continue voting for only one or the other.
Oh look, another liberal blaming eveybody and anybody except the traish-tier Democrat platform/candidate.
More astroturfing