The problem with liberal democracies isn’t that representatives are elected, its who those politicians represent. It’s not the working class, except when it is and those politicians get Salvador Allende’d 💀.
Best not to vote then? Best to let the guy win who has promised on the campaign trail to make the lives of trans people, women, immigrants, basically everyone who isn’t a straight white male, as miserable as he possibly can, and not put up even a token resistance against Israel, because the other guy isn’t resisting Israel as hard as we’d like and is therefore just as bad?
I hate Biden too but not voting is not the solution.
So? You’re snarkily commenting on the actions of a US citizen.
You were asking me what I was about to do in the coming 4 years, probably concerning US politics.
The fact remains that there’s work to be done by the people and it will either happen under Biden or Trump.
Again: You were adressing me.
One of those options is clearly more inhabitable than the other.
It’s not about inhability. It’s about a system that’s in constant peril of sliding into fascism isn’t worth defending.
You being from another country and sowing political discord isn’t the gotcha you think it is.
I’m not trying to do that. This is an international meme community about politics (nowhere it’s specified that it’s exclusively about US politics). If I’m not allowed to show my political beliefs here: where can I show them?
Trust me: I’d rather no nothing about the politics of that failed state. But here we are with the world police noticing that it has - like all police - a fascism problem. 🙄
You were asking me what I was about to do in th coming 4 years, probably concerning US politics.
Yeah, shame on me for assuming you were commenting on something that mattered to you. Egg on my face for not recognizing that you’re just cackling from the sidelines.
It’s not about inhability. It’s about a system that’s in constant peril of sliding into fascism isn’t worth defending.
Then you’re either saying there’s no way to fix that system (which is pointless and petulant). Or that there’s work to do beyond voting to make those fixes (which, see my previous comment)
I’m not trying to do that.
Then frankly, it’s not clear what you’re actually trying to do. Whatever it is, its coming off as pointless and annoying at best and deliberately divisive at worst.
Palpatine kinda DID end the voting system (analogue to parliamentary democracy):
“The Imperial Senate will no longer be of any concern to us. I’ve just received word that the Emperor has dissolved the council permanently. The last remnants of the Old Republic have been swept away.” -Grand Moff Tarkin
So, in other words, the two are more alike than is initially obvious.
It certainly needs a special type of person I think. We are both very independent people for example and we value alone-times.
It helps that we have a common interest that can be shared via the distance: Playing videogames and watching shows like Star Trek together.
Careful with the distance ones. A girl I worked with left her spouse and took her kids to AUS to be with her dream partner; who only forgot to disclose the fact that he was a high level drug dealer. Sometimes you miss out on important details like that, so just be careful.
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