• BeardededSquidward@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    2 days ago

    “Oh damn, we should continue to just suffer in this system and not demand better about it because can’t change it!” - That’s what you sound like right now.

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      2 days ago

      I’m in favor of changing the system but I’m not going to let the idea of a better system delude me into thinking that we’re in that improved system already. We absolutely should change the system, but when you look at the system we had at the time of the election, who else were people going to vote for if they didn’t want trump to win? We didn’t have ranked choice, we didn’t even get a primary for the Democrats.

      Blaming the Democrats for not winning is taking away the blame and attention away from the people everyone should be mad at, the Republicans. Dems fucked up, but that’s not holding Republicans accountable for what they are doing right now.

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      2 days ago

      We should demand that it be better, but shooting ourselves in the foot while doing it is only going to give us a shot foot

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        2 days ago

        We’re already shooting ourselves in the foot. The Dems, even when they had a trifecta in 2008, were still dropping the ball. They don’t elect effective people, just people who keep ensuring payments go up and not down.

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              1 day ago

              I mean it doesn’t sound like it. You’re not even making an argument, just pointing at things and saying “bad!”

              The difference between that and administrating at the national level is . . . big.