Choose your political flavor (must choose one or self righteous assholes online will blame society’s problems on you for not voting instead of the neoliberal billionaires who control the politicians)
Republican: 🇺🇸✝️💣 Democrat: 🏳️🌈💅💣
this post was submitted on 19 Dec 2025
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see, this is why we say voting won't solve your problems. don't hate the messenger.
you could use rethinking instead of blaming russians or tankies or whatever.
Voting doesn’t make a difference at this level, because where it did make a difference, they failed to vote.
There’s only one solution the US has to get out of the hole it’s in. Progressives must vote out the problem Democrats in primaries, which means they all have to vote in that, then vote those people in, come the elections. It’s the only way the US can get where it needs to be to make the changes socialists want. The US doesn’t have the systems in place like ranked choice to do things differently.
You don’t have a choice. You’ve got to vote your way out of it, if you get another chance.
The only other way is the one some think they want but they actually really don’t, which is not likely to work the way they want anyway.
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They can't give that to Trump. How is Elon Musk going to become the world's first multi-trillionaire?
If you pick the right currency, Musk is already the first multi-trillionaire!
We're helping them be free but it's actually for the oil and now a bunch of my friends are going to get killed and messed up.
Didn't we already do this a few years ago?