• _AutumnMoon_@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    1 hour ago

    I was supposed to have a favorite politician? I just assume that anyone who wanted a position of power is probably plotting something

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    6 hours ago

    It’s worse than that, there are Republicans that know he’s morally reprehensible, might destroy the country, know he is incompetent, and still worship him.

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    8 hours ago

    The people who need to read this cannot read.

    I wish that was a joke. There is a direct correlation with the rise of fascism and the decline of American reading scores. Currently nearly a quarter of our adult population is functionally illiterate. Meaning they can identify words, they can send texts, they can reply to messages or read headlines, but are incapable of anything more advanced than that.

    We somehow think that there’s a sharp line between “cannot read at all” and “can sit down with a paperback and be whisked away to another world” when actually it’s a spectrum, like everything else.

    Really what this means is that a sizeable set of our population, because they suck at reading, also suck at forming language in their heads, and because of this cannot manage and consider complicated, abstract ideas or reframe thoughts into words that can be analyzed. When you live like this, you tend to just go along with whatever other people are doing and you have intense emotional reactions to everything you see.

  • Bytemeister@lemmy.world
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    17 hours ago

    Having a favorite politician is weird, like having a favorite landlord. You should care about the policies and efficacy of your politician, and not really give a fuck beyond that, unless they are a rapist, serial drunk driver, or something like that.

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      17 hours ago

      If you have a politician that you rank above others, then by definition, that is your favorite politician.

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      Every election here in Sweden and EU I come to the same conclusion:

      There are no good political parties, the best you can do is to vote for the least bad party, and hope that it works out.

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        Pretty much all over the world people say that and then race to vote for the second worst party/person because “the better one could never win.”

        Vote for who you most align with, anything less than that is just betraying yourself and prolonging the inevitable slide to the right.

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          Thank you. This incessant capitulation to the lowest common denominator is why across the world we are seeing a rise in regressive, right-wing ideology.

          People stopped fighting for better and have just consigned themselves to accepting literally the 2nd worst option out of fear that the worst option will succeed.

          It’s a shitty catch-22 that is fundamental aspect of electoralist politics and why I vehemently am against them as a political structure.

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          The issue you are describing seems to mostly stem from the idiotic and unfair system of first past the post, Sweden has proportional representation, so I do end up voting for the party I mostly align with, even if it is a completely new party.

          I have voted for several different parties in the three normal elections, even at the same election day.

          Then we have the act of protest voting, as well as support voting. These are tactics you can use in a proper voting system with a healthy amount of political alliances.

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            Yea I’m in Canada and it’s that problem. We should be 8-9 years deep into ranked choice or similar but our centrist party that ran on that promise fucked it up big time because they realized that they’d probably never win an election ever again. Their entire platform basically depends on the Conservatives being such absolute trash that no one feels safe voting for our leftist, progressive party.

    • MegaUltraChicken@lemmy.world
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      1000% agreed, but fuck if I wasn’t literally smitten listening to Lina Khan talk. Attacking corporate hegemony really gets my engine going.

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      18 hours ago

      because he smiles like he’s part of your family and makes you feel good while standing firm in his beliefs against untold amounts of racism from all sides of the political stage?

      ahem. I mean yeah why would they. I’m not in a cult. shut up.

    • Frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      I’m fond of Robert La Follette (one of the loudest voices against US entry into WWI), Russ Feingold (only senator to vote against the Patriot Act), and Bernie (who doesn’t need an introduction). In all of history, there are some politicians that stand above the rest.

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      23 hours ago

      No one has a fav politician

      I guess those people mean whom they support in an election

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        Yea. The politician whom they most support, otherwise said to be their “most preferred”.

        You know what is another way to say that something is an individual’s “most preferred”? It would be to say it is the individual’s “favorite”.

        Thus, people, in fact, do have favorites.

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        Suppose I polled the American people’s agreement with the statement “In all of human history there is one politician who is my favorite above all others, and that politician is President Donald Trump.”

        We know that I would get tens of millions of people who genuinely and strongly agree with that. It would be depressingly close to, if not over, a hundred million.

        Or maybe over 100M before the Epstein revolt and below after, lol.

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        Brother I’ll be honest with you, I will read 18 pages of whatever bullshit you want to write to me, but I won’t even watch 10 seconds of video.

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          Joke is that it’s an over the top song praising united nations politician Jen Egeland by the same artists that made “what does the fox say.”

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    If you’re an American and you can’t name… let’s say… 10 presidents, then it’s probably a bad sign if you even have a favorite politician.

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    This is a two way street though. Someone should tell both sides. They both love their billionaires. Notice how neither side has gotten shit done that help the people?

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      If your sides are left and right they don’t both love billionaires.

      Take an ideological side, not a political party side.

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      Notice how neither side has gotten shit done that help the people?

      Speaking as someone who would literally be dead without government assistance, fuck off with that nonsense.