Comment on There's always money in the banana stand
vivalapivo@lemmy.today 14 hours ago
It’s people who are to blame.
Instead of voting for people who profit from war, they should vote for people who profit from the universal healthcare, childcare, absence of poverty.
The system is rigged that the only way to run in politics is to get multiple MILLIONS in donorship
And that’s just not possible except for if you do dodgy deals or are already a millionaire making the choice end up instead;
It’s far more complex and nuanced than, “Fuck the public.” This feels like you’re unironically parroting the sentiment shared by George Carlin-- in a comedy stand-up special.
The public needs to make better, more informed voting choices, but the system is corrupt, full of dirty money, and frankly kind of rigged. Our current way of electing representatives is outdated at best and undemocratic at worst.
We need to switch to ranked choice voting and get money out of politics.
Liberals upvoting you and agreeing furiously because they voted for “most lethal military” Kamala cop city Harris will downvote this comment without reflecting on the irony.
Meanwhile, MAGA voters are agreeing as well because they voted for “definitely won’t do a war, trust me” Donald cranky old fart Trump will upvote, though, also without reflecting on the irony.
I’m surprised it was upvoted TBH. Basically it was an irony highlighting the fact that the general population’s well-being is not profitable and therefore is not possible within the current system. As Grigory Yudin put it, Democracy is not elections.
Voting doesn’t make a difference, the system needs to be overthrown.
At this point we need just average ppl to run for office. The entire government needs to be changed out like dialysis. I’m already researching my options to run.
JoshuaFalken@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
To be fair to the people, it’s not as if the big elections are a buffet of selection. Having to choose between light and dark meat doesn’t help me if I want a salad.
a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
What if one of the meats is doing a sig heil and stealing from kids cancer funds?
JoshuaFalken@lemmy.world 5 minutes ago
I mean yes, it should be cut and dry given the current dynamic. Picking between two options when one is crawling with maggots is a pretty easy choice but that wasn’t really my point.
Unfortunately my point matters less than I wish it did. Loads of people don’t bother voting anyway, many that do vote are ill informed to some extent, and enough show up thinking they’ll get big and strong by eating maggots.