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[–] ultra@feddit.ro 63 points 11 months ago (5 children)
[–] joelfromaus@aussie.zone 24 points 11 months ago

[softly] Don’t.

[–] blanketswithsmallpox@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago

I was going to use more jpeg.com but it couldn't do webps. I didn't want to convert it on my phone somehow so I screenshot instead. However it made me curious and my file manager was able to convert it easily by typing in jpg for the type. So I uploaded that instead and it worked.

Anyway, here you go: https://morejpeg.com/Image/View/3377e20f-8894-ee11-8100-8b81c820316e

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[–] conditional_soup@lemm.ee 51 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (6 children)

I don't know how to feel about this election as an ameribro.

I'm left-libertarian (upper case left, lower case libertarian) on the political compass, which is practically not represented in US politics, so I'll take whatever I can get. Biden is, realistically, the best I can hope for this election cycle. He's not great, there's a lot of big policy issues I diverge with him on pretty sharply (both on left and libertarian), but the other candidates for the DNC are a hot fucking mess. As for the libertarian party, it's actually insane. Gary Johnson got booed for saying he'd want people to have driver's licenses to drive. That's a no go for me. And as far as the conservatives go, they run the gamut from not an instant disaster (I guess) to the loud, proud, and complete end of the republic.

Biden has at least done some things that I kinda like, and doesn't seem keen on destroying the republic. I'd love to get a reformer in and sweep Reaganism out on its wrinkled, swampy ass forevermore, but I don't think that's realistic at this point. Where I start getting worried is that the Biden campaign seems dead set on repeating some frankly terrible HRC '16 strats, which, well, we saw how well that worked for her, but the pro-Biden response is "Trust me bro, Trump is actually unelectable this time". I'm also concerned because, let's face it, Biden's old enough that he could get struck down with a stroke or what have you at any minute.* Every day, the cosmic dice are getting more and more weighted against him. The democrats have done very little to make a case for a possible candidate/president Harris, where the republicans have laid a LOT of groundwork against her. If Biden bites it or gets incapacitated, Harris is going to have a huge uphill climb in front of her.

I guess where I get uneasy is that it feels like the democrats are making a lot of avoidable and predictable mistakes, and they're just banking that it won't blow up in their face this time because, uh, what, that was that time, this is this time? They could do better, but they're just going to choose not to, and be shocked if shit goes sideways.

*I mean, so could Trump, but I'm not hoping that he wins.

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[–] cantstopthesignal@sh.itjust.works 41 points 11 months ago (6 children)

Most of us are right there with you. What's most important though is that most of us in like 4 swing states are also right there with you.

[–] spacesweedkid27@lemmy.world 14 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Prolly even like in some red states as well.

The American election system has so many flaws, that I am surprised that no politician cares enough for that to change.

[–] AnarchoSnowPlow@midwest.social 17 points 11 months ago

Things work really well here for you if you're amoral and wealthy. So like 99% of elected officials.

[–] ignotum@lemmy.world 13 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I saw a video of republicans outraged because someone was apparently trying to change the voting system to use ranked voting, and this would destroy the two-party system (yt link) which apparently would be a horrible thing to happen

Strange that they worship the founding fathers so much and insist that the system they put in place is perfect and must never be changed when John Adams wrote (google books link):

There is nothing which I dread so much as a division of the republic into two great parties, each arranged under its leader, and concerting measures in opposition to each other. This, in my humble apprehension, is to be dreaded as the greatest political evil under our Constitution.

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[–] banneryear1868@lemmy.world 39 points 11 months ago (2 children)

You know what, I'm just gonna say it. American's stupid political situation will destroy the world. There I said it.

[–] dangblingus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 11 months ago

Thank decades of education cuts.

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[–] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 33 points 11 months ago
[–] Flaky@iusearchlinux.fyi 20 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Not just that, soon after the US election, the UK will be gearing up for their General Election. Latest is the end of January 2025 according to a quick search.

[–] conditional_soup@lemm.ee 17 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

By all polls and sentiment, it seems like it's going to be a goddamned bloodbath for the tories. I'm actually kinda pumped, I hope they get everything that's coming to them.

[–] Flaky@iusearchlinux.fyi 10 points 11 months ago

It's going to be bittersweet in a way because of Labour not being particularly great either, but yeah, they've had it coming for a very long time.

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 16 points 11 months ago

Americans are saying the same thing...

[–] waka@feddit.de 15 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I feel the need to repost CGP Greys Playlist on Voting (or why the american version is so very very bad)

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[–] doctorn@r.nf 13 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (6 children)

Damn, I read election with an R at first and was already getting worried. 😅

[–] zcd@lemmy.ca 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I’d be nervous about that too

[–] JaymesRS@literature.cafe 8 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Is it going to last more than 4 hours?

[–] Muffi@programming.dev 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Nah, it's going to cause cardiac arrest after about 8 seconds

[–] killeronthecorner@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago

50/50 on the election result doing that anyway

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[–] Syrus@lemmy.world 11 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It's proving to be extremely difficult to escape U.S. politics on lemmy as a european because the rest of the world is vastly outnumbered here. But at least it's not voat or ruqqus... I'll take left wing morons over right wing retards any day.

[–] dangblingus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 11 months ago (4 children)

There aren't any left wing candidates in the US.

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[–] Thcdenton@lemmy.world 11 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I am often wrong, but I cant imagine anything crazier than the 2016 election. What a ride.

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[–] Omega_Haxors@lemmy.ml 10 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (7 children)

Americans: "Voting 3rd party is a waste of a vote, you need to vote the lesser fascist or democracy is over"

Also Americans: [pencils in the stupidest shit to the point a fictional character wins the popular vote]

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[–] uis@lemmy.world 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Putin's reelection is soon...

[–] anarchy79@lemmy.world 17 points 11 months ago

In two countries at once! What a time to be alive...

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago

Bookmarked for perusal every 2-4 years for the rest of my life 😮‍💨

[–] Tarkcanis@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago

Laughs nervously from north of the border

[–] systemglitch@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

American Civil War II feels closer every day.

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[–] lil@lemy.lol 7 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

I don't care about USA elections

[–] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 27 points 11 months ago (3 children)

No person outside the US does, but yet we get affected by them with their constant invasions both culturally and military.

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[–] BilboBargains@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago

Can you just not, mkay?

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