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i don't even have a favorite politician. no person-cult for me, nuh uh

[–] T00l_shed@lemmy.world 116 points 1 week ago (6 children)

Having a favorite politician seems odd to me

[–] forrgott@lemmy.sdf.org 36 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yup. This right here. It's not a fucking sporting event.

[–] Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You're right, it's like WWE, "sports entrainment" - after all, it's all scripted and they have to sell taking a dive while getting paid.

[–] forrgott@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 1 week ago

That is a disturbingly accurate comparison.

[–] stoy@lemmy.zip 15 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Every election here in Sweden and EU I come to the same conclusion:

There are no good political parties, the best you can do is to vote for the least bad party, and hope that it works out.

[–] Soup@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Pretty much all over the world people say that and then race to vote for the second worst party/person because “the better one could never win.”

Vote for who you most align with, anything less than that is just betraying yourself and prolonging the inevitable slide to the right.

[–] stoy@lemmy.zip 23 points 1 week ago (2 children)

The issue you are describing seems to mostly stem from the idiotic and unfair system of first past the post, Sweden has proportional representation, so I do end up voting for the party I mostly align with, even if it is a completely new party.

I have voted for several different parties in the three normal elections, even at the same election day.

Then we have the act of protest voting, as well as support voting. These are tactics you can use in a proper voting system with a healthy amount of political alliances.

[–] Goldmage263@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 week ago

People will socially and otherwise murder to keep proper voting systems out of the USA.

(。・´_`・。)

[–] Soup@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

Yea I’m in Canada and it’s that problem. We should be 8-9 years deep into ranked choice or similar but our centrist party that ran on that promise fucked it up big time because they realized that they’d probably never win an election ever again. Their entire platform basically depends on the Conservatives being such absolute trash that no one feels safe voting for our leftist, progressive party.

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[–] frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 1 week ago (2 children)

If you have a politician that you rank above others, then by definition, that is your favorite politician.

[–] T00l_shed@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I would say preferred, not favorite

[–] frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 1 week ago (6 children)

Favorite just means most preferred.

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[–] MegaUltraChicken@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

1000% agreed, but fuck if I wasn't literally smitten listening to Lina Khan talk. Attacking corporate hegemony really gets my engine going.

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Vermin Supreme?

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[–] njm1314@lemmy.world 38 points 1 week ago (8 children)

Why the fuck would anyone have a favorite politician?

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[–] HuntressHimbo@lemmy.zip 33 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Not in a cult, but my boy George Santos is flawless

/s

I think he goes by mother shabubu now

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[–] Bytemeister@lemmy.world 27 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Having a favorite politician is weird, like having a favorite landlord. You should care about the policies and efficacy of your politician, and not really give a fuck beyond that, unless they are a rapist, serial drunk driver, or something like that.

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] Bytemeister@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

I think "most tolerable" would be acceptable.

[–] _AutumnMoon_@lemmy.blahaj.zone 17 points 1 week ago

I was supposed to have a favorite politician? I just assume that anyone who wanted a position of power is probably plotting something

[–] ameancow@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

The people who need to read this cannot read.

I wish that was a joke. There is a direct correlation with the rise of fascism and the decline of American reading scores. Currently nearly a quarter of our adult population is functionally illiterate. Meaning they can identify words, they can send texts, they can reply to messages or read headlines, but are incapable of anything more advanced than that.

We somehow think that there's a sharp line between "cannot read at all" and "can sit down with a paperback and be whisked away to another world" when actually it's a spectrum, like everything else.

Really what this means is that a sizeable set of our population, because they suck at reading, also suck at forming language in their heads, and because of this cannot manage and consider complicated, abstract ideas or reframe thoughts into words that can be analyzed. When you live like this, you tend to just go along with whatever other people are doing and you have intense emotional reactions to everything you see.

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[–] logicbomb@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago

If you're an American and you can't name... let's say... 10 presidents, then it's probably a bad sign if you even have a favorite politician.

[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago (4 children)

I disagree with Bernie Sanders about eliminating national-states.

There.

I said it.

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[–] MonkRome@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's worse than that, there are Republicans that know he's morally reprehensible, might destroy the country, know he is incompetent, and still worship him.

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[–] ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

John Brown died (how could he?!) and left America without guidance until Malcolm X came around...

[–] aramova@infosec.pub 6 points 1 week ago (3 children)
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Sure, I have a favorite politician!

cue shooting range targets

The one with the most holes is my favorite!

[–] Kennystillalive@feddit.org 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Having a favourite politician is alrrady almost cult like. Yeah, you can like and support some of their ideas but at the end of the day they are a politician.

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