• VinegarChunks@lemmus.org
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    3 months ago

    Half of Americans actively vote for the more evil candidate. That’s the problem you need to fix first.

    I really wish I was exaggerating but it’s hard to describe it any other way.

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      3 months ago

      Yep. I enjoy hypothetical discussions about how to fix our shit to benefit humans as much as anybody else.

      But that’s the wall I mentally run into every time: dozens of millions of people voted for the obvious greater evil THREE consecutive times.

      And these weren’t some kind of bland Romney v Obama elections that were very much two sides of the same coin. They were random politician v dementia predator Hitler and roughly half of voters were smashing that pedoHitler button.

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        3 months ago

        Maybe if you’re running against pedohitler, don’t do shit that’s unpopular with your base just because you really want to.

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          3 months ago

          Oh yeah, the DNC is crappy controlled opposition that normally exists to make conservative ideas seem liberal/leftist to americans.

          … But that still means tens of millions of people actively choose the nightmare over the boring uninspiring candidate. Both things are true and both are bad. :/