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.

    • 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.

                • eldavi@lemmy.mlEnglish
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                  1 month ago

                  no country has been untouched by american intervention and that intervention has ensured that there are large powerful parties and small weaker ones.

                  things get significantly better when those small parties gain power like has happened in mexico in the last decade. but other examples like argentina, will show that american intervention will once again “correct” the course of history when the american military starts bombing mexico under the guises of the “war on drugs” and “war on terrorism” and insist that they were targeting drug cartels like the isrealis were targeting hamas when they executed the last al jazeera correspondent in gaza.