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[–] 38 points 11 months ago (19 children)

You vote left because you want the best for the general good of society, you vote right because you want what's best for yourself, in particular.

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  • [–] 29 points 11 months ago (9 children)

    The sad thing is, that's not even true.

    Most poor world be better off under left wing ideals, yet they vote right wing anyway because they're scared that brown people will steal their crumbs.

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  • [–] 21 points 11 months ago* (3 children)

    (But actually that guy in the middle doesn't just have this plate full of cookies. He owns a huge vessel full of cookies)

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  • [–] 4 points 11 months ago

    There’s a twisted sort of logic to this. Let’s put ourselves in the position of that worker with one cookie for a second.

    Two things are true in America:

    1. the rich don’t pay taxes
    2. benefits cost money

    If the worker feels caught between those two things, he has to ask which he can change more easily. And clearly, denying benefits to the poor is easier than taxing the rich. In today’s climate, there is a “deny benefits to the poor” party that is very well mobilized and has delivered numerous victories. And where is the “tax the rich” option? Nowhere.

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  • [–] 7 points 11 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

    But rich white men stealing their crumbs is fine because they aren't brown

    Better than Jose over there, a hard working fine gentleman, getting his needs met

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago

    It is true for the general disposition. Do you vote in your own interests vs do you vote in the general best interest. Your motivations may be malicious or incompetent, a two party system doesn't discern.

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  • [–] 18 points 11 months ago (4 children)

    You vote right because you want the people you don't like to suffer.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago (3 children)

    I don't believe this. People may have multiple agendas. They may hate foreigners or cultures, but people's allegiances are always first and foremost to their own, to keep living in the most comfortable way they can with the lowest possible eftort. It's kind of game theoretical in some sense.

    Game theory occupies itself with the adversary roles of generosity (a moral principle) and calculation (a purely rational one), and in some way you could say that in a system which only allows one of two outcomes, a lot of assumptions are subsumed under those two separate outcomes.

    What if Candidate A is for lower taxes, higher immigration and Candidate B is for higher taxes and lower immigration?

    What if both candidates agree on lower taxes and lower immigration, but one of them also proposes reinstating slavery, and the other one wants none of it but instead mandatory abortions?

    In a two party state you don't get enough fine grained resolution to deal with problems that require any complexity beyond perfectly white and perfectly black.

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  • [–] 12 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    I guess you missed the "He's not hurting the people he needs to be hurting" thing the other year.

    They're not nice people. They will vote for the leopard and act surprised when it comes for them.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago

    You also vote far right if you’re willing to sacrifice something yourself to make sure no one ever gets it without having to make heavy sacrifices to do so. Life is pain, princess. Anyone who says differently is selling something! /s

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