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"Yes don't vote at all to get rid of fascism"

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[–] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 11 points 4 days ago (3 children)
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[–] ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works 12 points 4 days ago (1 children)

This isn't entirely new or unique to America, but the dynamic is essentially:

Party A improves the odds fascism is successfully implemented.

Party B implements it.

Reducing the conditions for fascism to take hold is strictly off the table for both A and B.

Fundamentally changing the system of Party A (or B for that matter) through voting alone would at least require a Party C.

But even so it is the internal party politics prior to and outside of elections that are keeping this fascism paradigm in place. And that's where people's frustrations tend to lie.

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[–] GoodOleAmerika@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

Does third party count then? One bar is a bar

[–] piefood@feddit.online 9 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (13 children)

I don't know that I've ever seen anyone say that both sides are the same. I have seen people (when talking about the US) call out when both sides do the same things, such as: Put forth rapists and child-killers as candidates, back a genocide, send people to torture prisons, refuse to fix the healthcare system, etc.

B is indeed worse than A, but I've seen too many people use that to pretend that one side is "actually good", instead of being able to see that both sides are bad.

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