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[-] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 39 points 2 months ago

Not sacrificing your children to Baal is throwing your vote away

[-] NauticalNoodle@lemmy.ml 20 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

If you choose to do anything but sacrifice your children to Moloch then you are by extension choosing to sacrifice your children Baal!

[-] dessalines@lemmy.ml 29 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Oh, you're seriously gonna pretend that moloch is better than baal is??? The hellfire demons eating civilians at random would be soo much worse if moloch were running things.

Voting third party (i don't care if jesus promised to end the hellfire demons, his party won't win, and is just a spoiler for the baal vote) - a vote for moloch.
Not prefacing a criticism of baal's administration (cmon, we all know he realistically can't stop the hellfire demons) without first saying you'll vote for him? Also a vote for moloch.
Not voting - a vote for moloch.
Going to the bathroom? Believe it or not, also a vote for moloch.

[-] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 17 points 2 months ago

I wonder when liberals will finally start organizing with Leftists outside the confines of Dem v Rep duopoly electoralism. Given that Reform is impossible, that leaves us with Revolution.

[-] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 20 points 2 months ago

Liberals will march with fascists before thinking about looking left

[-] Alsephina@lemmy.ml 12 points 2 months ago

Macron's already on that

[-] JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works 17 points 2 months ago

Ranked choice has been gathering some traction.

[-] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 15 points 2 months ago

Even on the minor, basest of chances it gains enough traction to make a tangible difference despite both parties working against it, how could a Socialist party make meaningful change without the other apparatus of the State like the military and legislative branches getting in the way?

Allende taught us what relying on electoralism will get you, even if you win.

[-] JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 months ago

Those are called checks and balances, and are there to make sure power is distributed. It's good that you need buy in from lots of different people.

You don't want to make a system where a few people can go drastically against the will of most people. So you'd first need to build wide support across the majority of the country or state. That's the whole point of democracy.

[-] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 13 points 2 months ago

Those are called checks and balances, and are there to make sure power is distributed. It's good that you need buy in from lots of different people.

Not quite. They are designed so that any genuine threat to Capitalist profits can be stalled out.

You don't want to make a system where a few people can go drastically against the will of most people.

That's what America already is and has been since its inception.

So you'd first need to build wide support across the majority of the country or state. That's the whole point of democracy.

America is not a functional democracy, and needs to be overthrown and replaced with a functional democracy. The State needs to be entirely smashed and a new one built on top of the ashes.

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[-] Stalinwolf@lemmy.ca 13 points 2 months ago

I'm more of a Mephisto guy myself, but it never hurts to run Baal.

[-] Ion@lemmy.myserv.one 5 points 2 months ago

Well, Mephisto is not on the ballot so that would just be throwing away your vote

[-] baggachipz@sh.itjust.works 13 points 2 months ago

bOtH sIdEs

[-] linkhidalgogato@lemmy.ml 14 points 2 months ago

to "both sides" something there first have to be 2 different sides, not two right wings of the fucking bird in nazi insignias.

[-] PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

When presented with the choice between the arsonist who wants to burn your house down slowly vs the arsonist who wants to burn your house down quickly, choose the arsonist who wants to burn your house down slowly, so you have more opportunities to escape or mitigate the damage.

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Why the downvotes? How is this analogy inconsistent with what was just described?

[-] Fidel_Cashflow@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

what if we shoot the arsonists 🤔

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[-] Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 12 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I would - but what children?
All have already been sacrificed to "the economy and profits", we are waiting for people to be born to immediately sacrifice them bcs we are so much indebted to the great "the economy and profits".

All hail "the economy and profits", may it's economy enslave us, and it's profits get redistributed away from us.