• SphereofWreckening@lemmy.world
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    3 hours ago

    Yeah, because voting automatically makes every single fascist/imperialist element from a government disappear. Something that’s been building up in the US since the early 20th century and fostered by nearly every aspect of the US government. Even in roles that have no elected position. Yeah, voting would have definitely saved us. 🙄

    This is why no one who understands the US system takes this line of thinking seriously.

    • Pulptastic@midwest.social
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      3 hours ago

      Your argument feels disingenuous and does not provide an alternative approach to fighting fascism.

      OP was right, we wouldn’t be having this conversation with President Harris.

      • b161@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        There was never going to be a President Harris.

        You have:

        • gerrymandered electorates
        • corrupted supreme court
        • electoral college
        • elon musk buying election
        • elon musk most likely hacking election
        • bomb threats on election day
        • disenfranchised minority groups
        • a cult of zealots ready to use violence to overturn the results if Harris won.
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          If the people who voted for Biden, voted, there would be a President Harris today. Instead they boycotted because of “Palestine”, etc.

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        If Harris was president we’d be seeing failure after continued failure to properly put Trump in prison. Which is my exact point. The US government will protect Trump, and as an extension fascists, regardless of who is interested white house. Not even in just the US, but internationally.

        Even when Biden was president it was rare to see any insurrectionist get more than 10 years in prison. And that was with a DoJ that should have been ruthless in every instance.

        The solution? The system is too big to sustain itself. The US is an ouroborus that will not live out the century at this rate. The best answer I can see is a balkanized and restructured US. At least then there is a good chance of seeing a less widespread amount of damage on the world stage from a dying, flailing empire.