olivebranch

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[–] olivebranch 0 points 1 year ago

honestly I wouldn't risk it to wait for an election or two. Once you have complete power you can use it to stay in power, gut everyone from the party that is not on your side. It is such a big risk to have a one party system, even for a short while, that risking your vote now for the third party is actually lower.

[–] olivebranch 1 points 1 year ago

Both parties have autocratic dictator. Biden sidestepped congress to fund genocide in Gaza. Trump is no better of course.

[–] olivebranch 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Awesome, we can maybe use [email protected] community for organizing?

[–] olivebranch 1 points 1 year ago

In theory yes, but in practice there are many laws that prevent them for being able to represent the people that are voting for them. First sign you are not a democracy is when more then 10% of your voters can't get a single seat in congress. With such high bars of entry, new parties can never grow as it would take a lot of risks on behalf of voters to get them to pass the bar.

[–] olivebranch 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

it is not just farming land that is valuable, sometimes there are good fishing spots and etc in scarce regions. However those are far rarer situations and usually there is plenty of food for everyone, but hard times also happen and then most animals and humans practice mutual aid. There is a good book about it, by Kropotkin, called Mutual aid. It isn't long, I listened to the audio book.

[–] olivebranch 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Well they are funded by same donors and vote similar laws. They do have different PR strategy but their actions on important issues are always the same.

[–] olivebranch 1 points 1 year ago

No, the rich corporations funded both and told them to support each other. It is not just a conspiracy theory, there are cryptographicaly signed emails about this, for which journalists when to jail for publishing. There are public records of major donors funding both sides. They are all puppets that play in theater of politics to pretend to be enemies while working for the same employer doing the same thing and getting votes by pretending they are against each other.

[–] olivebranch 0 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Politicians have no real agency, it is the rich that control the entire political landscape. They liked Hilary and Trump, and they told them to support elevate each other so that no matter who wins, they get their way. They do this in every election, same major donors fund both sides.

Democrats and Republicans are just puppets that pretend they are against each other, but in reality they are on the same side working for the same employers and getting votes by bashing each other.

[–] olivebranch 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Are you seriously asking or was making a satirical comment? Because we can seriously talk about organizing protests. Maybe make a new community for this.

[–] olivebranch 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You don't know me and what I do in my spare time.

[–] olivebranch 0 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Territorial disputes where only common after agriculture in humans, because territory wasn't as important before as mutual aid.

[–] olivebranch 1 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I don't think you shouldn't vote, I just think there is no much use in it because there are both pros and cons that are more or less the same. If everybody voted for lesser of two evils everything would be the same as is now, if nobody voted it would be clear that we have no democracy at least. Either way, our effort should be placed in supporting party candidates, but in building our own communites and self-governing ourselves directly.

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