This type of thing goes through my head constantly. Im kinda surprised trump is even trying to hide epstein given how well just breaking laws and being openly corrupt has been for him/they/them.

    • eldavi@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      1 month ago

      there are several every voting cycle. i voted for de la cruz last time; but there better known names like jill stein.

        • Doc_Crankenstein@slrpnk.netEnglish
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          1 month ago

          Whether she did or didn’t doesn’t matter. If we ever want an alternative to ever succeed we must first act as if their success is viable and grow their base.

          If we concede defeat before we ever see results then others will never want to throw their lot in with us.

          Though, personally, I believe the entirety of the electoralists, democratic republic a failure of a system that, intersectionally with capitalism, intrinsically is designed to oppress the working class by reinforcing an arbitrary hierarchy of control but that’s a very long winded argument, it’s 4:30 in the morning, and I have yet to sleep.

          All I’ll say is people should be more focused on local elections and building dual power in a way that your local electorate can actually see affect their lives.

        • eldavi@lemmy.mlEnglish
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          1 month ago

          it’s a chance to save your democracy by preventing the bigger parties from going to the right like they do in the united states.

            • eldavi@lemmy.mlEnglish
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              1 month ago

              you’re witnessing in real time what happens when we don’t in the united states w both the republicans and democrats kowtowing to trump.

                • eldavi@lemmy.mlEnglish
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                  1 month ago

                  because it doesn’t happen in the united states; alternative parties have significantly larger voter counts outside the united states and that forces the larger parties to appeal to voter concerns under a persistent threat of losing voters.

                  the democrats and the republicans have no such threat and keep shifting to the right as a result since americans refuse to vote for anything besides democrats or republicans.