I use Firefox with ad blockers to watch YouTube. Chrome seems to be allowing them to block my ad blocker

Yeah I’m comparing 3rd party votes to voting for the less harmful duopoly + activism, you’re comparing it to doing nothing.

You’re right voting 3rd party is better than doing absolutely nothing. What a high bar

What are you even talking about? I’ve seen videos of cops shooting at dogs wagging their tails. I’ve seen cops shoot at small dogs and accidentally hit the owners. Here’s just one of many videos, see if you can watch it without being disgusted by these pigs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0D1wzZU14h0

That’s true until it isn’t.

The way you change that is election reform. Not thoughts and prayers and spoiler votes when one of the 2 big parties is running a wannabe-dictator.

Think, if fools in Florida didn’t vote 3rd party in 2000 you’d never have bush or the war in iraq, and we might have given a shit about global warming.

Please, tell me you’re a child who knows nothing about the US electoral system without telling me. People like you got us Trump

Too much of a baby to read and understand the spoiler effect that comes with FPTP? Too impatient and short-sighted to push for election reform (RCV or approval voting) and just want some low effort immediate option that requires nothing more than casting a vote? Child. Democracies require effort to survive.

Did you just scoff at the idea of competition improving a market?

or they’re simply pumped full of Fox brand fear of anything slightly different and prefer this guys brand of crazy

Okay but they have no incentive to do any of that and instead have monetary incentive to shift right

Do participate in bringing ranked choice voting to your state if you want a shift left in the USA. Competition will force the shift you are looking for

USA strikers should take notes

Then please point to the original aggression

When do you start the timeline though? The Palestine / Israel conflict has been going for 100 years right? Are you comfy saying Israel is the original aggressor?

Full disclosure: I dislike all fundamentalist religious societies. I don’t believe in holy land, and I think people on both sides are reaping what they’ve sown by insisting they are gods chosen people. So I’m not defending Israel, but I’m not defending Palestine (and especially Hamas) either.

I’m not on twitter and never was, but I’m not silly enough to think billionaires don’t shape my world in a million fucking ways with their unilateral decisions. Elon here has a HUGE one recently in deciding to disable starlink during a Ukraine offensive.

Trying to assist his rich buddies with fucking with the union is a lower tier crime but still its fuckery that affects a lot of people.

Then we’ve got other rich asshats selling state secrets for money.

Billionaires are a liability and everyone needs to realize it.

Somewhere an Elon fanboy is explaining why this is peak free speech

At winco in Arizona these are 89 cents somehow, love employee owned grocery

No just send me to the damn bug planet thanks

Authoritarian attitudes was the #1 predictor of Trump support if I recall.

I haven’t lived through an authoritarian regime, but I lived through a terrible parent - so I’ve experienced the feeling of ‘oh shit the structure that governs my life is fucked up and I must escape’. I think that’s what made me anti-authoritarian.

I often wonder if there’s a way to get people to shift away from authoritarianism. I think I get the appeal of ‘simple, easy, you don’t even have to think for yourself!’ - but everyone needs to recognize those are trap cards.

Just imagine the outrage and slandering of entire demographics that would be going on if there were a gay couple instead, or if this was something that happened at a drag show.

Just something to think about when you see your ‘christian’ republican relatives play this down

I think we really have to make contingency plans for the USAs fall to fascism. All these old guys in congress are selling us out.

Canada is already doing it

You argued against yourself.

You pointed out that the GOP doesn’t wait for dems to do a thing before they do it, which is true. There’s no reason for Biden to refrain from doing something that trump has done already

really good points. Thanks for the thoughtful response. I find the forum format the most comfy, but I’m the techy one so I think you’re right that others would probably prefer chats