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  • nialv7@lemmy.worldtoMicroblog Memes@lemmy.worldleftist infighting
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    11 days ago

    Bring them further left how? Why would they need to do anything when you’d vote for them anyways? Every election both parties move a little bit to the right, and you have no choice but vote Dem. What can you realistically do when the only power you have is voting unless you are a billionaire? Your electoral system is truly fucked and the probably of it fixing itself is low, because why would the party in power want to change the system that just gave them that power?

    All I can say is leave if you are able to.









  • What deals? Trump’s tariff against the US numbers are made up, they are US trade deficits. Are other countries supposed to lower this number somehow? Is he forcing them to stop exporting to the US? Well that’s going to have the same effect as tariffs, right? Or is he going to force them to buy more US products? First of all, that’s straight up Mafia behavior; but also the US just doesn’t manufacture that much to begin with.

    How is this going to make any sense.




  • nialv7@lemmy.worldtoMicroblog Memes@lemmy.worldWhat could go wrong?
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    20 days ago

    I think you underestimated how much power “executing the law” gives you. And no matter what you believe, it can be immoral to not exercise this power sometimes.

    Sure you can educate the populous and hope good people are elected, but you can’t guarantee things always go how you hoped. What if the Congress passes some truly reprehensible law? One you deeply disagree with? e.g. genocide, apartheid, weapons for the oppressor, tax break for the rich, what have you. Would you still hold on to your beliefs and execute the law faithfully? Should you?




  • I’ve generally been too pessimistic so I’m probably wrong, but I feel it’s not going to make a difference either way. When things get this bad, we are already in the terminal stages of this disease, our predecessors made bad decisions in the past few decades and allowed it to progress to this point. Whether we ban it now or not, are just different treatment plans. The prognosis is not going to be good either way.

    I know I know, defeatism is bad and all that…