Comment on YSK about Duverger's Law

• 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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      • Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        I'm not exactly set on "brighter", but at least it will be "different". Right now, I feel like something has to give. Voting alone won't get us out of the hole we've been buried in. Trusting the same people who lied and brought us to this point won't get us to a better place. I'm really not against a different path that makes push come to shove anymore, is all.

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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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