• m532@lemmy.ml
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    5 hours ago

    then they wouldn’t need to distract people.

    The distraction is the voting system itself. Seems to work better on you than on most other people.

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      35 minutes ago

      Right, so voting is a pointless distraction that… The oligarchs still need to use for some reason.

      If the people in power didn’t need to get votes, we wouldn’t be having elections. They would ignore all pretense and just make the whole country into a company town.

      But hey, you want conservatives to have an easier time taking power with the system as is? Go ahead and don’t vote.

      • davel@lemmy.ml
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        6 minutes ago

        Right, so voting is a pointless distraction that… The oligarchs still need to use for some reason.

        We know the reasons, and we know the oligarchs will dispense with the pretense of elections when they hinder more than they help. Fascism isn’t a grassroots movement; it’s an astroturfed one funded by oligarchs. They fully unleash it when they become frustrated with bourgeois democracy.