It starts with fury. Everything is beyond messed up over there.

Add in: anger funnels focus. Tunnel vision. It almost feels morally wrong to think of another thing. Anger helps you in a physical fight, so this makes sense. Also, ordering lunch while your neighbor’s house burns down is kinda dickish.

Add in: first past the post voting. This is the big clincher. It forces two party systems mathematically, and most people understandably haven’t heard why.

Factoring in the information in that video, you realize your choice really is Harris or Trump. Third choices get transformed into a vote for the candidate you dislike the most. So you take the best option.

Take away the knowledge of first past the post, and you have every reason to think that third parties will work if you all just had some spine and imagination, god damnit. You resolve not to let yourself be one of the ones who sat by silently while horrible things happen!

Cast protest vote thinking it makes you one of the people who actually helped, not realizing first past the post transforms that vote into a vote for trump, and everybody keeps fighting instead of watching that video and letting the facts it points out inform what they do.

The resistance infiltrating the enemy base in disguise can get a lot of work done. Especially if it’s long term and you don’t even need to sneak around.

Even just a low level functionary who’s not a nazi or a terrible person makes my time dealing with a government agency better. There’s not an automatic moral imperative to bounce.

The slightest effort at extrapolation makes this whole idea monumentally short-sighted.

Exactly that. It looks like the ink didn’t come out the pen right.

It’s the cover up they just won’t talk about.

Not even a little bit.

And you’re probably not gonna get a point of comparison, because it’s looking likely to be one party rule by the absolute shittiest american embarrassments forever at this point. At least until America does some stupid shit globally and gets themselves invaded by a united band of good guys down the road.

Trump and his party are nazis. Nazis suck because they bring the law of the jungle into civilization.

The law of civilization is cooperation.

The law of the jungle is, can I physically do it.

Republicans basically exist to shout, burn their own house down (also yours), and celebrate. They’re going to burn the checks and balances.

It’s simply a nazi infestation.

And then this weird limp dickness in the Democrats that compromising and doing nothing is the cure for cancer.

Vast numbers of people maliciously paused their duties in a thousand ways to let him through. They installed him, is how he got eligible. Because you’re absolutely right, he was and still is ineligible in a thousand ways.

And then the cockroaches came out of the walls.

God damn this is stupid. People area gonna die and worse. Use your damn head.

Late 2015.

It’s actually likely to be better as long as trump waddles on. He’s just so god damn bumbling that even with all the cards, he’ll find little ways to not get his shit done.

Mind you it won’t be enough, and it will be god damn fucking horrific. But decidedly less smooth while Narcissism Jones keeps grabby-handsing the wheel from his handlers and derailing his own goals.

When the air becomes poison, the block buttons don’t work.

The headline in this comment is the 29 downvotes.

This is why I like you, Lemmy.

“Next election” is the issue here.

Those playbooks are for democracy. This is different territory now.

*proved

We should probably assume most things are hosted in the states and have ron desantis coming for them.

A cancer metastasizing is the opposite of Americans winning their country back.

I think if there is hope, it’s from exactly this.

If the system is truly that awful, we just won’t play.

I don’t know that it would be effective, but my money’s on something sufficiently buddhist and radical. Not as a most likely thing to happen, but as a most likely thing to work, since a trump coronation is the end of the systems Americans have based their whole lives on.

This feels like something the Fediverse is ultimately going to build for itself. I know jack squat about the details, but it’s gonna have to be a thing eventually, I think.

Oh damn what a catch hahaha