FoxtrotDeltaTangoJust a reminder
To only have two sides is the problem.
Yeah, we need more John Fettermans and Joe Manchins and Krysten Cinemenmas.
🌞 Alexander Daychilde 🌞Right. So the alternative to those is more Marco Rubios, Mike Johnsons, MTG, etc etc etc etc. All of whom are much worse.
We need better people running for office that get financial support from the people, but when it comes down to the general election, whatever addhats made it that far, the Democrat is going to be BY FAR the better pick 99.9% of the time. And if the Republican is truly better, sure, vote for them, but remember that at the party level, Republicans are the ones bringing us fascism.
The point - the entire fucking point - is people saying “Don’t vote for the Fetterman/Manchin/etc in the general election” help the fascists win. Of course it’s shitty options, but you want to pick the LESS. FUCKING. SHITTY. OPTIONS.
Tag Your Toe@resipsaloquitur @protist You all slobbered after Fetterman and Sinema and accused anyone who didn't similarly fall in love with them of being bootlicking establishment shitlibs.
It's really been something to watch your character arc from abusive "progressive" revolutionary vanguards to abusive "progressive" historical revisionist gaslighters over the past several years.
insurrectionwhat? what is anyone trying to revise?
@nsrxn "YoU jUsT wAnT mOrE fEtTeRmAnS aND SiNeMaS, uNlIkE uS, wHo NeVeR sImPeD fOr ObViOuS pLaNtS"
Come on, bud. 🙄
can you link this?
@nsrxn Can you stop gaslighting? 🙄
I'm not. Ive never seen someone deny being bamboozled by any of those three. the objection is that we were bamboozled, and we won't be fooled again.
DigitOr… any of many other options, than just more corruptible agents and assets.
I often imagine what it may be like with, not just adjustments to re-presentative democracy (like ranked choice voting, proportionate representation, etc), but even beyond direct democracy, even beyond liquid democracy, all the way to (what I call) config-democracy…
“Config-Democracy”, where we each are free to input our say as elaborate (or as terse) as we want, updated when we want, as direct or deferring as we want. Where our “vote” is like a config file, not merely a single mark on a corrupted multiple choice. … unless you want to vote like that still in config-democracy. You’re free to. But I imagine everybody wants more say than that.
All kinds of facilitators can be developed for such. Heck, we even already have the likes of the political compass test, and the world’s shortest political quiz, that for decades have already offered us better means to present our political philosophies. … Funny how the crooks have not sought to implement that eh? Given how the spray of popular results show they’d be voted out of office the first day any such were implemented. … Imagine that, huh? Real democracy, real organisation by the people, for the people.
:)
We can still mend this.