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[–] Faux@lemmy.ml 14 points 2 weeks ago

The wing doesn't matter if the eagle is a nazi tbf.

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 14 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Liberals call this "purity testing," but fundamentally the democrats stand for perpetuating capitalism and imperialism. These two points of contention are irreconcilable with any leftist.

[–] kittenzrulz123@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

"Waaaah how dare you purity test me, yeah I have right wing economic views but have you considered my social views are also right wing" - average Liberal

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 12 points 2 weeks ago
[–] Confidant6198@lemmy.ml 10 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

"purity testing" more like them gaslighting people into believing that they are left wing and getting defensive when they are proved not to be

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 weeks ago
[–] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

If I'm trying to create anything worth anything you're goddamn right I'm gonna test my ingredients for purity

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[–] UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (3 children)

All I want is the freedom to vote how I want and still count my vote if my first choice didn't win. Democrats should be free to run their political party how they want. Just like how everyone else should be free to participate in our elections. Free of a spoiler effect.

There should be no monopoly on the future of our nation. Republican, or Democrat.

Surely the freedom to vote how people want is not to high a bar for the democrats to clear right? Self proclaimed democracy advocates surely want the people to be represented fully... right?

I would never force a liberal to vote for my preference in a election, why is it okay for them to do that to me?

And it is a conscious decision to force me to vote a certain way. Every election democrats mercilessly rage at 3rd party voters. The Democratic party and their voters understand that First-past-the-post voting is flawed. Yet in blue states, fully in control of the Democratic party, FPTP voting shackles the people.

Democrats understand FPTP voting does a bad job of representing the nation. They ignore this festering gaping mortal wound... all for safe states and easy elections against a complete clown show. One that has defeated them in every way possible.

The monopoly is over democrats. You never deserved it, and you most certainly do not deserve it now in our darkest hours. Get out of the way, we have to move forward as a nation.

The Democratic party is not more important then the United States of America.

Electoral Reform Videos

First Past The Post voting (What most states use now)

Videos on alternative electoral systems

STAR voting

Alternative vote

Ranked Choice voting

Range Voting

Single Transferable Vote

Mixed Member Proportional representation

[–] pineapple@lemmy.ml 10 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I don't think chsnging the voting system will fix this. There is still a 2 party system in australia despite a democracy with preferential voting for over 100 years.

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Bingo. Class dynamics take priority over voting mechanisms.

[–] RiverRock@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 weeks ago

I think actually a party guilty of genocide should not be free to run in elections, or even free to remain outside of prison

Always remember, when Margarine Taylor-Greene attempted to oust Mike Johnson, it was Hakeem Jeffries and the Democrats who came to his rescue.

[–] TotallynotJessica@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Their strategy is to give into Trump's demands in the hopes that it prevents him from destroying their precious institutions. They hope to be able to take over from an unpopular Republican party after Trump dies without really undoing the damage he's done. The problem with this approach is that it will prevent the system from needing to be properly rebuilt, effectively legalizing most of his abuses of power and prolonging the instability of our country. A big part of this will be institutionalizing the blatant corruption and oligarchy while further rigging elections to make it impossible for popular movements to ever legally gain power.

A Gavin Newsom or Pete Buttigieg presidency will see them ruling as a weaker feudal king than Trump, but only to promote business activity and interests. Relying on the honeymoon period following Trump's removal, they will position themselves as the saviors of "democracy," yet they will do little to actually undo a lot of the election rigging that Republicans are installing right now. They will suppress workers rights and throw the most disposable minorities under the bus, deregulating and burning through all the goodwill they have. They'll parade the corpse of liberalism around as long as fools will believe it, but it will be a cynical gesture.

In order for actual liberal democracy to exist again in this country, the liberals would need to have shown a backbone and resist Trump no matter how much he destroys institutions. They would need to risk temporary jail time and potential assassination to invigorate long term support for a rebuilt American dream. Instead they're showing that they never cared about liberal ideals, only the goodwill liberalism afforded their power.

Yeh. The strategy seems to be to wait for their “turn” and make it look like the care while they watch everything they claim to stand for be destroyed.

[–] Zerush@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 weeks ago

Nothing new, in a profoundly capitalist structure like the US, there are no other options than to choose between conservatism and fascism, substituting reason for "in God we trust" and "Stars and Stripes", to keep citizens ignorant and obedient to continue functioning.

[–] thorhop@sopuli.xyz 3 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Liberalism has always been right from center. You can put neo in front of it all you'd like.

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 13 points 2 weeks ago

It was left in the context of a world dominated by feudalism, but we no longer live in that age.

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