silence7@slrpnk.net to politics @lemmy.worldEnglish · 14 days agoYou can stop asking where the mass opposition is. It's everywhere.www.motherjones.comexternal-linkmessage-square212fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
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minus-squareBoofStroke@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·14 days agoIt’d be nice if all of these protesters had bothered to vote and not with protest votes.
minus-squareKairos@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkarrow-up0·14 days agoI think these people are the ones to have voted.
minus-squareCileTheSane@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up0·13 days ago“proper action wasn’t taken in the past therfore I won’t accept any action being taken in the future.”
minus-squareJohn@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·13 days agoOh look, another liberal blaming eveybody and anybody except the traish-tier Democrat platform/candidate.
minus-squarejordanlund@lemmy.worldMlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·14 days agoWhat makes you think they didn’t? 75 million people voted for Harris. We likely won’t know the count of today’s protests, but I feel safe saying it was far fewer than 75 million.
minus-squareBilliam@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·13 days agoThe estimate was 5 million people across 1300 cities. A lot of people complaining about these protests seem to think that level of coordinated protesting isn’t impressive. Those numbers alone should make anyone stop and think about what’s going on.
minus-squarejordanlund@lemmy.worldMlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·13 days agoIt’s going to get bigger as people’s 401Ks evaporate.
minus-squarejonne@infosec.publinkfedilinkarrow-up0·14 days agoIn the US system it doesn’t matter how you vote except in like 7 states.
minus-squareDragonTypeWyvern@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up0·14 days agoWell, that wouldn’t be true if everyone voted, but it does bring up the point that winner take all is just a bad representative system.
minus-squaretechnocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·edit-212 days agoThere is no such thing as a good “representative” system.
minus-squaretechnocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·edit-212 days agoIt would be nice if there had been non-fascist duopoly candidates to vote for. But here we are.
It’d be nice if all of these protesters had bothered to vote and not with protest votes.
I think these people are the ones to have voted.
“proper action wasn’t taken in the past therfore I won’t accept any action being taken in the future.”
Oh look, another liberal blaming eveybody and anybody except the traish-tier Democrat platform/candidate.
What makes you think they didn’t?
75 million people voted for Harris. We likely won’t know the count of today’s protests, but I feel safe saying it was far fewer than 75 million.
The estimate was 5 million people across 1300 cities.
A lot of people complaining about these protests seem to think that level of coordinated protesting isn’t impressive.
Those numbers alone should make anyone stop and think about what’s going on.
It’s going to get bigger as people’s 401Ks evaporate.
More astroturfing
In the US system it doesn’t matter how you vote except in like 7 states.
Well, that wouldn’t be true if everyone voted, but it does bring up the point that winner take all is just a bad representative system.
There is no such thing as a good “representative” system.
It would be nice if there had been non-fascist duopoly candidates to vote for. But here we are.