@[email protected] to politics @lemmy.worldEnglish • 3 months agoYou can stop asking where the mass opposition is. It's everywhere.www.motherjones.comexternal-linkmessage-square227fedilinkarrow-up1991
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minus-squareBoofStrokelinkfedilinkEnglish11•3 months agoIt’d be nice if all of these protesters had bothered to vote and not with protest votes.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink31•3 months agoIn the US system it doesn’t matter how you vote except in like 7 states.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink11•3 months 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-square@[email protected]linkfedilink3•edit-23 months agoThere is no such thing as a good “representative” system.
minus-square@[email protected]Mlinkfedilink44•3 months 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-squareBilliamlinkfedilink5•3 months 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-square@[email protected]Mlinkfedilink2•3 months agoIt’s going to get bigger as people’s 401Ks evaporate.
minus-squareJohnlinkfedilinkEnglish6•3 months agoOh look, another liberal blaming eveybody and anybody except the traish-tier Democrat platform/candidate.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink1•3 months agoHey if they had 4 more years they sure would have at least thought about punishing the insurrections.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink8•3 months ago“proper action wasn’t taken in the past therfore I won’t accept any action being taken in the future.”
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink2•edit-23 months agoIt would be nice if there had been non-fascist duopoly candidates to vote for. But here we are.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink2•3 months agoLet’s not forget that there are more than two choices. I understand there is certainly a duopoly, but that only continues as long as we continue voting for only one or the other.
It’d be nice if all of these protesters had bothered to vote and not with protest votes.
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.
But there are far far better systems.
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
Oh look, another liberal blaming eveybody and anybody except the traish-tier Democrat platform/candidate.
Hey if they had 4 more years they sure would have at least thought about punishing the insurrections.
“proper action wasn’t taken in the past therfore I won’t accept any action being taken in the future.”
It would be nice if there had been non-fascist duopoly candidates to vote for. But here we are.
Let’s not forget that there are more than two choices. I understand there is certainly a duopoly, but that only continues as long as we continue voting for only one or the other.
I think these people are the ones to have voted.