• hark@lemmy.world
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    21 hours ago

    That’s like presenting only the options of slavery or indentured servitude and asking “you prefer slavery to indentured servitude?” Neither are acceptable. Before you say “well those are the options we’ve got” think about who are making these the only options.

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      20 hours ago

      The system itself is only able to give you two options. It’s not an evil conspiracy, it’s a Prisoner’s Dilemma. If Democratic states, and Democratic states alone, eliminated first-past-the-post…we would be under permanent Republican rule. It’s political suicide.