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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.
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Brain dead for a party over country.
“Government assistance doesn’t exist!” - Very Serious And Politically Informed ‘Leftists’
Fox News level education, Christ.
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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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John Brown died (how could he?!) and left America without guidance until Malcolm X came around…
Having a favorite politician seems odd to me
If you have a politician that you rank above others, then by definition, that is your favorite politician.
I would say preferred, not favorite
Favorite just means most preferred.
Preferred means favoured, not necessarily favorite
Yes, but they specifically qualify that by saying “most preferred”. And the one who is favored most above all is by definition the favorite.
Right, like when you favour a leg that is hurt? Is that because it’s your most preferred leg? Your favorite leg?
This is such a stupid fucking thing to be splitting hairs about. Just shut up.
Follow your own advice next time. Thanks.
What if they’re my least disliked instead?
Many Republicans worshipped Reagan decades after his passing.🤷♂️
1000% agreed, but fuck if I wasn’t literally smitten listening to Lina Khan talk. Attacking corporate hegemony really gets my engine going.
I get what you’re saying, I like the way Jasmine Crockett speaks sometimes.
Vermin Supreme?
Yup. This right here. It’s not a fucking sporting event.
You’re right, it’s like WWE, “sports entrainment” - after all, it’s all scripted and they have to sell taking a dive while getting paid.
That is a disturbingly accurate comparison.
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.
Except the ‘least bad’ party gets 0.8% votes and almost all the votes go to worst and second worst. What most people mean by ‘least bad’ is simply ‘less bad’, as in ‘less bad than the other one’. And even that ‘less bad’ classification can be troublesome to wrap your head around.
Coming from Sweden, with proportional representation I can tell you that we do get niche parties elected for seats in the Riksdag (Swedish parliament) or Kommunstyrelse (municipal government) from time to time.
So it isn’t out of the question
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.
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.
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.
People will socially and otherwise murder to keep proper voting systems out of the USA.
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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.
“You should be worshipping ME instead! Nyeh-heh-heh-heh-heh!”
I disagree with Bernie Sanders about eliminating national-states.
There.
I said it.
Cool, well I disagree with this and vehemently believe that progress will never be achieved until we abolish the concept of the state.
i had no idea sanders is THIS based
No, he wants to keep them.
awwee
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.
favoriteleast hated?I think “most tolerable” would be acceptable.
Having a favourite politician is alrrady almost cult like. Yeah, you can like and support some of their ideas but at the end of the day they are a politician.
Not really, no. Cults are a very specific means of control. Almost every organization ever has some minor aspect of the BITE model, but that does not make them cults. Doing so waters down the term and is insulting to people trying to get out or have gotten out.
Not in a cult, but my boy George Santos is flawless
/s
I’m disappointed now. I thought we were going to talk about Boy George.
I think he goes by mother shabubu now
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.
Why the fuck would anyone have a favorite politician?
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.
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.
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.”
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.
No one has a fav politician
I guess those people mean whom they support in an election
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.
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.
Having a hard time thinking of something bad to say about AOC
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What happened here I wonder
They said something about AOC voting for funding for Israel. Didn’t seem like something worthy of having the comment removed but idk, maybe that didn’t happen? I’m not familiar with whether or not that really happened.
Oh :(
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.
bawt he was sant by gawd!
He even has a red hat !
News.lemmy is guilty of this.
Pham Minh Chinh is banning ICE scooters in the capital in 1 year, and cars 2 years after that.
What could I possibly criticize him for? Not banning vinfast cars blocking traffic with fewer than 3 people?
Sure, I have a favorite politician!
cue shooting range targets
The one with the most holes is my favorite!
