• Buttons@programming.dev
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    6 months ago

    All fair criticisms of Democrats in my opinion.

    The only thing I have a problem with is your “never vote Democrat” rule. You do you, but I believe voting in a way that will most help LGBT people, and most help women’s reproductive rights, etc–I believe that if you want to cast votes that most support those causes, it will sometimes require voting for a Democrat.

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      6 months ago

      i’ve voted democrat before and will likely again; it’s fascinating how people interpret a message in a way that wasn’t said and that’s not meant as an indictment on you.

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        6 months ago

        Earlier you said:

        i’m permanently anti democrat party

        and I read that as “I will never vote democrat”. I see now that’s not what you said.

        I too would love to see us do better than the two deeply flawed parties we have now. I wish we had a better voting system that allowed better parties.

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          6 months ago

          I too would love to see us do better than the two deeply flawed parties we have now. I wish we had a better voting system that allowed better parties.

          i can understand the “better red than dead” voters because they’re getting what they want; so i mostly blame the “vote blue no matter who” voters because they have never gotten what they want and continue to believe that choosing the lesser evil option will somehow make things better even though it never has and never will.