• ModestMeme@lemm.ee
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    9 days ago

    Mass movements can do lots of things, but we can’t even get a majority of people to vote…

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      9 days ago

      We can get a majority of those that do vote to vote for Trump so I am not that hopeful.

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      9 days ago

      Because people don’t feel represented in the current FPTP voting-system, which to be fair, was designed by wealthy romans to benefit wealthy romans.

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      9 days ago

      As it turns out, you only need like around 5% of the population to start a revolution (if even that amount). Revolutions have been started with even fractions of a percent.

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      Voting is how we got here…

      Political proces and utterly captured

      Otherwise we would have had Bernie 2016.

      I am tired of political clowns pretending like politics is the solution, it is key part of the problem.

      Did you see how politicians are reacting here.

      Besides Bernie that is