Comment on YSK about Duverger's Law

• Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  The problem is that many people see the system ending up with "vote blue AND the fascists get their way". It ends up being totally discouraging.

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  • gustofwind@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I understand being discouraged that Blue doesn’t deliver

    But I don’t understand how that matters when Red is openly promising death and destruction

    Red only wins elections when Blue voters stay home so we could always at least stop Red

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    • Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      The thing is, what's your preference? Disappointment on a regular basis, or transparent hate and naked greed? Destruction can only last so long, but a slow slide into depression can last forever. Voting Red often ends up being the accelerationist choice as much as support for their vile beliefs.

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      • BryceBassitt@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Kinda hard to benefit from voting red after they kill you…

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      • gustofwind@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Oh no 🥲 besides being wholly divorced from reality you also think there’s a brighter future on the other side of accelerationist collapse

        Politics has simply become an unserious affair

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      • Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Accelerationism sounds nice, unless you have issues with a few million corpses, of them probably yourself.

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