Imagine if US voters had picked Kamala Harris.
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@nando161 @benroyce @knowprose @Enea90 @randahl I see you are quoting somebody here. But you live in Australia, so voting is mandatory, right?
Is there a way to opt out of the mandatory voting?
@mls14 once you're on the electoral roll in Australia, you'll potentially be fined if you don't show up and vote in an election. But there's no penalties if you never enroll to vote in the first place...
One thing that's often missed in discussions of compulsory voting is that if the state requires everyone to vote then the state must also make it _possible_ and _easy_ for _everyone_ to vote. It's the ultimate in enfranchisement if you look at it from that perspective.
If you're on the electoral roll and you really can't find anyone you're prepared to vote for, for whatever reason, and you don't want to pay the fine, you can always submit a blank ballot.
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Unfortunately, there is very good evidence that the Democratic Party was willing to lose to totalitarian rule rather than reject an ongoing genocide. She didn’t have what it took to refuse that idea.
The worst thing about this is that people who unhappy with the state of affairs will choose whatever options are laying around.The only option a lot of people saw was the Republican Party over the current state of affairs.
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This is the real lesson for all of us. We have to have a political system that’s capable of offering choices that aren’t affordability crisis versus fascism.
Our political system is that dysfunctional and we need a different system to offer us more choices. The very basic that would be ranked choice and proportional representation and probably massively expanding the House of Representatives.
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@oneiros @randahl Must make sense if you spend a lot of time consumming Amerislop political content. I can see why EUropeans who like to rubberneck at their shitshow think I'm talking about THEIR politics as opposed to ours in
(the clue was Syria!). This: "would have kept the strong alliances with Europe" is not my desired outcome; "alliance" is a polite euphemism here... I don't care about *their* healthcare or the quality of their governance, but I don't mentally live in a Big Puerto Rico. -
This is the real lesson for all of us. We have to have a political system that’s capable of offering choices that aren’t affordability crisis versus fascism.
Our political system is that dysfunctional and we need a different system to offer us more choices. The very basic that would be ranked choice and proportional representation and probably massively expanding the House of Representatives.
Originally a single representative represented 30,000 people and a law passed by Congress capped the size of the House of Representatives so that a portion is now spread over I think 1 million people per politician
This has of course, only serve the interest of consolidated power
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@rayocentric
With Harris Warren, Sanders, and AOC would have been listened to. Now we have an oligarch in the WH.
@randahl@oneiros @randahl I hear you, brother... but I'm not so sure. Russia wasn't listening to Harris while she was literally in office. All of her promises were for a future date to be determined as if she wasn't already in a position of power.
Not a Trump fan either, but this dude even has his inlaws talking to people.
My bigger point was that the presidential vote in the U.S. gives the illusion of inclusion because the electoral college, not the mom and pop, pick the president.
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Imagine if US voters had picked Kamala Harris. She would have continued the Ukraine weapons support, she would have kept the strong alliances with Europe, and she would never have killed the Iran nuclear deal.
Together we could have forced Putin out of Ukraine, there would have been no new, wider war in The Middle East, and the NATO alliance would have been stronger than ever. And in that situation, I think our economies would have been considerably stronger too.
Populism derailed all that.
@randahl Populism Misogynoir
FTFY
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@rayocentric
With Harris Warren, Sanders, and AOC would have been listened to. Now we have an oligarch in the WH.
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Imagine if US voters had picked Kamala Harris. She would have continued the Ukraine weapons support, she would have kept the strong alliances with Europe, and she would never have killed the Iran nuclear deal.
Together we could have forced Putin out of Ukraine, there would have been no new, wider war in The Middle East, and the NATO alliance would have been stronger than ever. And in that situation, I think our economies would have been considerably stronger too.
Populism derailed all that.
Also masochism and racism.
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@TagYourToe Not quite. Hope you're sitting down for this. Sometimes... individuals... even melanated ones... think for themselves and don't hive mind.
@rayocentric This has nothing to do with you, though.
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@rayocentric This has nothing to do with you, though.
@TagYourToe My apologies, bro. The net keeps us on defense.
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@randahl Yes, but while she might eventually have listened to the public, she wasn't strong against Gaza, which is *SO* much worse than Trump declaring that they should speed up the genocide and definitely worth throwing away our entire democracy to prevent.
Well, that and the fact she might have been just generally competent instead of unleashing unhinged threats against corporations and other countries at random while trying to start WWIII. Who wouldn't want that? We're SO much better off!
Hmm Again I say; Biden/Harris had set up to regain the economy of WWII to 70's when the GOP went to war on what was becoming a nation for us all.
Look at their effort to rebuild Unions, educational help & the little strides over pharmaceuticals, junk fees and more + the 5 bills that djt doesn't dare release would have set us again on path to government for "we the people"
GOP, Nixon, Reagan, Bush & tRump fought for 55 yrs to kill it, B/H almost got it back in 4.
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@oneiros @randahl I hear you, brother... but I'm not so sure. Russia wasn't listening to Harris while she was literally in office. All of her promises were for a future date to be determined as if she wasn't already in a position of power.
Not a Trump fan either, but this dude even has his inlaws talking to people.
My bigger point was that the presidential vote in the U.S. gives the illusion of inclusion because the electoral college, not the mom and pop, pick the president.
@rayocentric
Sure, voting in CA or NY might seem useless. But in GA?
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Hmm Again I say; Biden/Harris had set up to regain the economy of WWII to 70's when the GOP went to war on what was becoming a nation for us all.
Look at their effort to rebuild Unions, educational help & the little strides over pharmaceuticals, junk fees and more + the 5 bills that djt doesn't dare release would have set us again on path to government for "we the people"
GOP, Nixon, Reagan, Bush & tRump fought for 55 yrs to kill it, B/H almost got it back in 4.
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@rayocentric
We now have a world burning fascist senile idiot. And you feel smug because you believe to understand the game and stand on the sideline.
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@rayocentric
Sure, voting in CA or NY might seem useless. But in GA?
@randahl@oneiros @randahl It's not my place to tell anyone what they should do... and some elections might really move based on votes. My one point was that The Presidential Election in the U.S., regardless of where you vote at, is decided by the electoral college, completely autonomous of the popular vote.
I didn't create that idea, but people keep blaming each other over who voted for who and they don't decide it anyway. Feel free to look it up.
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Imagine if US voters had picked Kamala Harris. She would have continued the Ukraine weapons support, she would have kept the strong alliances with Europe, and she would never have killed the Iran nuclear deal.
Together we could have forced Putin out of Ukraine, there would have been no new, wider war in The Middle East, and the NATO alliance would have been stronger than ever. And in that situation, I think our economies would have been considerably stronger too.
Populism derailed all that.
@randahl Please do not use "populism" as a synonym for fascism. When you do that, you conflate issues like affordability with unrelated stuff like xenophobic/racist opposition to immigration.
as someone else on here posted: "yes, fascists can use populist language, but populism is not their defining feature."
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@oneiros @randahl It's not my place to tell anyone what they should do... and some elections might really move based on votes. My one point was that The Presidential Election in the U.S., regardless of where you vote at, is decided by the electoral college, completely autonomous of the popular vote.
I didn't create that idea, but people keep blaming each other over who voted for who and they don't decide it anyway. Feel free to look it up.
@rayocentric
Feel free to find excuses to not vote for a (black) woman.
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@rayocentric
We now have a world burning fascist senile idiot. And you feel smug because you believe to understand the game and stand on the sideline.
@randahl
