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[–] raynethackery@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (23 children)

I just knew the comments were going to be us tearing each other apart.

I'm just thinking out loud here. What if Progressives that are registered as Democrats changed their registration to independent? Also, stop sending them your money. We could organize it to happen over one week. Then keep it that way for 30 days. See how much power we truly have. If we can show the Democratic party that they would never win another election without us, maybe they would be more likely to listen.

We have to be careful though, I know this President is running roughshod over the Constitution with the blessing of SCOTUS and Congress but they don't have enough votes or State legislatures to amend the Constitution. If they get that, then that truly is the end of this experiment.

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[–] SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (9 children)

Is voting for controlled opposition harm reduction?

Like I agree that Kamala was the correct choice, but her inevitably milquetoast liberal policies would keep us stagnant until people voted in the next Republican out of boredom

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[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago (6 children)

i mean i've had some ice cream, i contest the validity of the last position

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[–] peteyestee@feddit.org 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

The people who don't vote don't care when it comes down to it. its like when people call Nazis Nazis as if offends them. Or when someone calls a gay person gay... It's just like... Oh okay.

[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Can we blast the last point with a megaphone 24/7 in people's faces or is that too much to get the point across?

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[–] WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 4 points 1 month ago (18 children)

You would eventually "drive off a cliff" with either party, as they will softlock you into never having better choices, and the overton window will keep moving to the right. The only possibility out is to vote third party.

[–] amateurcrastinator@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

So if you eventually drive off a cliff anyway might as well get it over with and do it now... Because ice cream is for children or gay or something

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[–] MetalMachine@feddit.nl 4 points 1 month ago (4 children)

I do agree with people voting. But the disanalogy is that in the last one both parties wanted to drive off the cliff. Neither stood against genocide.

[–] Katana314@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Alright.

8 people vote to drive the bus over a cliff into a crowd of people. 6 people vote to shoot the crowd of people from the safety of the bus. 10 people choose not to vote, some because they don't want to harm the crowd of people, others because they're lazy.

It's a sour vote either way. But if the remaining people vote "Let's just get ice cream and not kill anyone", I'd find them morally in the clear, even should that vote fail.

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[–] arin@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Replace ice cream with cocaine and that's more realistic

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[–] OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 month ago

I love how everyone in this thread agreed to move forward and support the Dems

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