• Jediwan
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    9 months ago

    In a democracy, you get two choices

    Why do so many people act like primaries don’t exist. Everyone online complains about Joe Biden but then 96% of south Carolina votes for him? Slactivism at it’s finest.

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      9 months ago

      Why do so many people act like primaries don’t exist.

      Because this year they didn’t. 95% of votes haven’t been cast yet and everyone except the front-runners have dropped out already.

      The only way we don’t get a Biden v Trump rematch in 2024 is if a convention is outright hijacked or one/both of them drop dead of Old People Itis.

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        9 months ago

        Nobody else is going to fix what you dont like about the primaries for you, bro. Throwing your hands up and playing the victim because the odds are 99.99% against you only changes those odds to 100%.

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          >Throwing your hands up and playing the victim because the odds are 99.99% against you only changes those odds to 100%.

          i love this. i’m going to use it every time someone tries to suppress voter turnout by telling me cornel west and jill stein can’t win.

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            9 months ago

            Complaining on lemmy is 1000x easier than knocking on doors and it accomplishes 1000x less.

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              9 months ago

              i’ve knocked doors. i don’t do that any more. i can’t face my neighbors after telling them to put someone in power who stabbed us in the back.

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      9 months ago

      Another thing that annoys me is how people just treat the primary process with such respect with regard to the 2 parties. This year the GOP primary is the only (potentially) competitive one, so what’s stopping everyone from voting in the GOP primary so there can be a more acceptable opponent to Biden? I know it feels icky to register as a Republican but I’m just kinda shocked how no one ever takes this opportunity with such an exploitable system that consistently gets us disastrous results. Instead we complain about the 2 party system all the time, but then abide by it when the two parties ask us to.