It makes me want to leave.
When everybody agrees so perfectly. When conformity is so absolute. When dissent is so rare. It makes one suspicious.
Submitted 3 weeks ago by DominatorX1@thelemmy.club to showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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pigeonholedpoetry@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
bitofarambler@crazypeople.online 3 weeks ago
vote with your feet.
I’ve been traveling for about fifteen years now, if you have any questions.
Mothra@mander.xyz 3 weeks ago
Sounds like you’d make a good AMA post
lemmie689@lemmy.sdf.org 3 weeks ago
Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
While I agree with your scepticism initially, I worry that this is something a right wing lunatic would posture about Democrats.
jumping_redditor@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
to be entirely honest a world without Nazis would concern me, specifically because of the question “where did they go?”
DominatorX1@thelemmy.club 3 weeks ago
I think that nazi is an expression of trauma, given form by propaganda.
Take away the trauma and nazi disappears.
Take away the propaganda and… I dunno, less organized bad behavior.
DominatorX1@thelemmy.club 3 weeks ago
That’s troubling logic.
shalafi@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Sometimes it’s a good sign, at least in politics. The 99-1 Senate vote to kill the anti-AI-law ban of the latest bill was telling. Same goes for unanimous SCOTUS decisions. If both liberals and conservatives overwhelmingly agree on a thing, it’s almost certainly a good call.
Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
The patriot act. The Iraq war.
jeena@piefed.jeena.net 3 weeks ago
I remember going voting with my parents in the 80's in communist Poland. Voting was mandatory, so you would get into trouble if you wouldn't go. It also wasn't private, so you basically had to show what you voted for before putting your ballot into the ballot box. On top of they there was only one party which you could vote for.
Mothra@mander.xyz 3 weeks ago
So practically a ritual. What’s the point of voting if there is only one candidate? Rhetorical question
jeena@piefed.jeena.net 3 weeks ago
The point is to pretend to the world that you are a democracy.
aski3252@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
There are multiple candidates, but if elections are held in a one party state, they all belong to the same party or a party that is effectively under the dominating party’s control.
Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
To say you have elections.
DominatorX1@thelemmy.club 3 weeks ago
Is purple cosmos the Polish national flower?
jeena@piefed.jeena.net 3 weeks ago
No, I don't think so.