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 days ago by DominatorX1@thelemmy.club to showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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pigeonholedpoetry@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
bitofarambler@crazypeople.online 2 days ago
vote with your feet.
I’ve been traveling for about fifteen years now, if you have any questions.
Mothra@mander.xyz 2 days ago
Sounds like you’d make a good AMA post
lemmie689@lemmy.sdf.org 3 days ago
Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world 2 days 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 2 days ago
to be entirely honest a world without Nazis would concern me, specifically because of the question “where did they go?”
DominatorX1@thelemmy.club 2 days 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 2 days ago
That’s troubling logic.
shalafi@lemmy.world 2 days 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 1 day ago
The patriot act. The Iraq war.
jeena@piefed.jeena.net 3 days 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 2 days ago
So practically a ritual. What’s the point of voting if there is only one candidate? Rhetorical question
jeena@piefed.jeena.net 2 days ago
The point is to pretend to the world that you are a democracy.
aski3252@lemmy.world 2 days 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 1 day ago
To say you have elections.
DominatorX1@thelemmy.club 2 days ago
Is purple cosmos the Polish national flower?
jeena@piefed.jeena.net 2 days ago
No, I don't think so.