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[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago (2 children)

For a split second I thought this was in the US.

And honestly, I wouldn't be surprised if someone told me this is already Law in the US.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Which is why I don't share it, and I downvote it.

Clearly what I need to do next is immediately kill the tab or close the app.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

Tesla's are more likely, but typically your average car will do.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Okay but these are parties who should pay or at least be investigated for fault as well:

  • Tesla, obviously (stop calling it autopilot. This is why idiots treat it like, ya know, autopilot.)
  • Traffic Engineers (probably out of tax payers pockets. Sorry, not sorry. Pay attention to your transport infrastructure as well as who you elect to maintain and design it. Why is it that the US has had such an increase in road fatalities and incidents when so many European nations have seen a decrease? Consider why that is and how that can be replicated here. Also, unfuck the average american's mindset on roundabouts. I don't know why so many of us hate roundabouts with a rabid anger, but at the same time will complain about red lights without a single ounce of irony.)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Roe v Wade is gone & Abortion Laws are in full swing.

Net Neutrality was killed.

Trump made an attempt at building the border fence, which he claims was because the wall was more of a security issue than a fence they could 'look' through.

Trump attempted a Coup.

Trump is not your wishy-washy, wealth-hording politician of yore. He is a power-grabbing fascist with literally no filter. He tries to keep quiet, but he'll say the quiet parts out loud.

If he had managed to maintain his office, he was basically inches away from gutting public education.

And this was what he was doing to be 'reserved'. He told his audience to 'wait' until he 'won' reelection at the end of 2020 in regards to 'dealing with fauci'. Which implies there are other things he was waiting to do until he had secured his final term.

The only reason his insanity didn't happen all at once, was because of the initial whiplash between the old mask-on GOP and the new mask-off GOP. They lost out in the latter half of his presidency when the democrats took back the house.

if Trump was certain he could have instated his dictatorship in his first term, he would have done it. The new GOP is not like the 90s GOP. There are certainly those who feign ignorance and dissidence, but when push comes to shove, they tow the line.

Why would so many states have abortion laws ready to go? Why would so many states have complied in the attempt from Trump to steal the election?

If you think the GOP is bluffing, you are not paying attention.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago (5 children)

He and the GOP have been shouting their intention to go full dictatorship for months now.

It's not sensationalized if its from the horse's mouth.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

But there have been active courses of action.

The Presidency is one person, with increasingly too much power.

Unions have been exploding in popularity, various local elections have been swinging farther left than the standard democrat playbook.

The people are not voting democrat because they are content with them, they're voting democrat because there is not another viable option.

It needs to start local and grow. We need a proper left-wing party, if we can ever get organized enough to do such a thing rather than relying on what already exists.

And as I said, I think the best course of action is a measured approach. Local Elections, Off-year elections and non-presidential elections. Grow in numbers, gain public confidence and start snowballing.

The reason why third parties are progressively weakening is because of a lack of faith, and third party's consistent decimation in the presidential is a big part of it.

Its counter intuitive, but voting third-party hurts third parties in the long run if you focus on them primarily during presidential elections.

I'm not the standard "Oh the third party will never win type." I'm actively against trying to run before we can walk.

Confidence is a big deal in elections. It's more obvious in Primaries. If people see a candidate they like in the Primaries, but they don't think they can win against the opposition candidate, they will not vote for the candidate they like. They will vote for the candidate that they have the most confidence in even if they don't like that candidate.

We need to start a from the ground up political party that's entire focus is to stay out of the view of presidential elections, We need to start focusing on bringing Ranked Choice Voting to as many locations as possible. And it will be a long process. But it's far better than repeatedly doing the same thing every election cycle.

We always have the situation of 99% evil vs 100% evil both with a roughly 50/50 chance of winning and a selection of third party candidates who are decent but have 0 chance of winning.

Third party candidate loses, 99% or 100% evil wins. Third Party yet again becomes less relevant and less considered. Repeat. This cycle can only end if we stop focusing on the obvious losing strategy.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Theres the Fascist who will keep the veil of democracy on and avoid total outright Fascism or the Fascist who will burn democracy to the ground and have outright Fascism.

Voting for anyone else is at best throwing your vote in the garbage and at worst voting for the greater of two evils.

This was never an issue of "Voting for the good guy" that hasn't been an option for as long as I have been alive. This is an issue of biding time to build up a strong enough third party, and we don't even have a strong enough third party to have a presence in congress or the senate

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (4 children)

This is not a winnable situation. This is a two party system with a lesser of two evils option.

But we cannot consistently remain on the edge forever. If we pass over that line. And we have trump next year, it will be our last election.

We’ll either have a civil war and finally revise the system or end up like Russia.

Alternatively we can stay on the edge a little longer and build up a different strategy. Maybe A third party that only runs non-president candidates nationwide. Running in off elections and non-presidential yearsto gain seats and national trust. Maybe reforming local laws to make PACS less effective to avoid situations like the current one.

It’ll be slow and not ideal, but it’s a better chance at improving things then flipping the switch and having the dictatorship now.

Either way Palestinians die because we don’t get a say in that. And to end off this little rant.

Biden is enabling the genocide because his PACs have his hands tied. Trump would be cheering on the genocide because his PACS and his base would support him for it.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago

They aren't sustainable because they are de-orbiting but they're also supposed to be low-cost and high speed.

If the prices aren't low-cost, and the speeds continue to decrease, it's entire purpose is defeated.

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