What politicians want us to believe:

Voting: changes the system

Doing politics: it's for professionals

How it really works:

Voting: the possibility to kick bad persons out

Doing politics: changes the system

Nothing disgusts me more than billionare "philanthropists" who pledge to give away 70%-90% of their wealth to charities AFTER THEY DIE... While these MFs REFUSE TO EVEN PAY 5% TAX NOW and keep hiding their wealth and fucking kids offshores!

AND guess what charity they choose to donate it to after they fucking rot 6-ft underground? IT'S THEIR FAMILY-OWNED FOUNDATION CHARITY!

Every fucking billionare does this same trick to horde untaxed wealth for generation after the other. Or Elon who wants to go to Mars to "save humanity" , while doing jack shit to save humanity now and paying billions to support and keep Nazis in powers everywhere in the world.
So Fuck you Bill Gates, Fuck you Warren Buffon, Fuck you Zuck and Besos and every billionare philathropists who claim they will donate after they fucking die

OMG the main comments are disappearing. Can't understand what people are arguing anymore.

Now your car is the geographical size of the United States. Its sinking like 1 inch per year. Everyone else in the car is a douche bag.

They murder anyone who says that the car can be saved if we just stop letting it sink.

That's not the choice we have. There's the frustratingly slow option, and the "we're gonna piss in your mouth and poke you in the eye with needles" recuers.

What is stopping you from both asking the one who is willing to help AND trying to find a second solution on your own?

You don't lose anything by voting.

It's more like the first guy threatens to break your windows to make you drown even quicker, the second guy offers to slowly save you by 2060, you have to choose one, and if you don't choose, someone else will choose the "drown quick" guy for you

except the second guy tells you he will save you incrementally, but you know he’s lying and is sitting on the car as it slowly sinks in. the first guy is the reason you in this mess in the first place.

don’t go with either of them

What is the point of Lemmy if the comments are just gonna get removed bruh.

Useless thread

We need stakeholder focus. Unless you're actually worried about workers, consumers, and those environmentally impacted by the impacts of our economic system, I don't care about what any politician has to say. - me, a stakeholder socialist.

My comment was removed by the moderators, so I'll say the shorter version. VOTE. Do not let memes on the internet make you feel like your vote doesn't matter or that voting is useless, vote vote vote. We desperately need ranked choice voting, but even so, just vote.

This is how I feel when it comes to climate change especially. The other issues are important, but the difference between getting M4A now and later is the people it can't help now. That's still important, but with climate change we're hurtling towards a disaster we won't be able to pull back from if we keep waiting. Every time we get a Dem where the best they can do is maybe undo some of the damage the Reps caused I just feel such despair.

Ah yes voting is when something completely irrelevant...

This is a pretty shitty and convoluted analogy not gonna lie.

Poster is a mod of this community and has apparently been deleting comments willy-nilly.

If that's the case, you're a shitty mod not worthy of talking about late stage capitalism and perhaps your community is shit as a result of your actions and insecurity.

If it's not true, I apologize for all that lol

One Choice: Near instant death drowning

Other Choice: Live but it takes too long to get where you want to be.

Huuurrr Dduurrr THeSE ArE thE SamE

All choices on the ballot suck, so I should just get myself shot by the fascists? I don't see any good options. My fucking ballot had 17 elections where a republican was running unopposed. Staying home means I get the worst possible option. Welcome to Texas where the morons think Talarico is a communist (would be nice if only it were true).

The biggest problem is that humans are not capable of self governance. The sociopaths are the ones most interested in aggrandizing themselves through political office.

HARDCORE! INCREMENTAL CHANGE!!!

vote green 🤷‍♀️