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[–] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 19 points 4 months ago (2 children)

What would be the alternative

[–] force@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Shoot them

We're allowed to kill Abe Lincoln and JFK, why aren't we allowed to kill these guys? Why does Reagan get plot armor out of all the presidents? Who wrote this shit?

To be fair JFK getting shot was pretty epic though. He almost caused nuclear holocaust (although a more rabidly anti-communist president may have definitely caused nuclear holocaust), war crimed the South Vietnamese a ton, and stabilized Israel. RFK getting assassinated was less epic because that gave us Nixon

[–] xthexder@l.sw0.com 1 points 4 months ago

You have a very twisted view of the world. No one was "allowed" to shoot Abe Lincoln or JFK. It was very much not allowed, but murderers don't usually care about what's allowed and do it anyway.

[–] ssj2marx@lemmy.ml 3 points 4 months ago (2 children)

As I've said elsewhere, to fix it from within the system itself you would need a bloc of people willing to punish one of the parties for moving right by withholding their votes and their donations. To fix it from without the system is also possible, but would require some "authoritarianism" in the form of people with guns. Anything else is just people flailing around ineffectually and getting mad at others who aren't flailing in the ineffectual way that they prefer.

Either way you've got the same problem: getting a large enough group of people together who are willing to do the thing. Socialists of all stripes have been trying to crack that egg for over a hundred years and the only ones who had any success were the ones that managed to get the peasants on their side because peasants have a certain amount of class consciousness that proles don't.

[–] AVincentInSpace@pawb.social 12 points 4 months ago (1 children)

so suppose you let trump win to spite the dnc. then what? what are you going to tell all the people whose rights are being taken away?

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 5 points 4 months ago

Sorry; what would be the alternative NOW?!?

I don't see all that happening before it's time to vote, so isn't what you're saying now a bit of a distraction from the very real risk to the stability of the country?