When everybody agrees so perfectly. When conformity is so absolute. When dissent is so rare. It makes one suspicious.

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• 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.

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  • Mothra@mander.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    So practically a ritual. What’s the point of voting if there is only one candidate? Rhetorical question

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    • jeena@piefed.jeena.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      The point is to pretend to the world that you are a democracy.

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    • 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.

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    • Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      To say you have elections.

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  • DominatorX1@thelemmy.club ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Is purple cosmos the Polish national flower?

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    • jeena@piefed.jeena.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      No, I don't think so.

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• pigeonholedpoetry@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It makes me want to leave.

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  • bitofarambler@crazypeople.online ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    vote with your feet.

    I’ve been traveling for about fifteen years now, if you have any questions.

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    • Mothra@mander.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Sounds like you’d make a good AMA post

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• lemmie689@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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• 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.

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  • 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?”

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    • 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.

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  • DominatorX1@thelemmy.club ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    That’s troubling logic.

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• 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.

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  • Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The patriot act. The Iraq war.

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