silence7@slrpnk.net to politics @lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agoYou can stop asking where the mass opposition is. It's everywhere.www.motherjones.comexternal-linkmessage-square246linkfedilinkarrow-up11.3Karrow-down116
arrow-up11.29Karrow-down1external-linkYou can stop asking where the mass opposition is. It's everywhere.www.motherjones.comsilence7@slrpnk.net to politics @lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agomessage-square246linkfedilink
minus-squareBoofStroke@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14arrow-down135·1 month agoIt’d be nice if all of these protesters had bothered to vote and not with protest votes.
minus-squareKairos@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkarrow-up79arrow-down1·1 month agoI think these people are the ones to have voted.
minus-squarejordanlund@lemmy.worldMlinkfedilinkarrow-up60arrow-down1·1 month 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-squareBilliam@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up18·1 month 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-squarejordanlund@lemmy.worldMlinkfedilinkarrow-up7·1 month agoIt’s going to get bigger as people’s 401Ks evaporate.
minus-squarejonne@infosec.publinkfedilinkarrow-up34arrow-down13·1 month agoIn the US system it doesn’t matter how you vote except in like 7 states.
minus-squareDragonTypeWyvern@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up14arrow-down2·1 month 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-squaretechnocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·edit-21 month agoThere is no such thing as a good “representative” system.
minus-squareWraithGear@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 month agoBut there are far far better systems.
minus-squareSprocketfree@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up18arrow-down2·1 month agoMore astroturfing
minus-squareCileTheSane@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up11·1 month ago“proper action wasn’t taken in the past therfore I won’t accept any action being taken in the future.”
minus-squareJohn@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6arrow-down4·1 month agoOh look, another liberal blaming eveybody and anybody except the traish-tier Democrat platform/candidate.
minus-squareVanillaFrosty@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 month agoHey if they had 4 more years they sure would have at least thought about punishing the insurrections.
minus-squaretechnocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·edit-21 month agoIt would be nice if there had been non-fascist duopoly candidates to vote for. But here we are.
minus-squareChrispyswords@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 month 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.
I think these people are the ones to have voted.
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.
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.
More astroturfing
“proper action wasn’t taken in the past therfore I won’t accept any action being taken in the future.”
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.
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.