• @dumpsterlid@lemmy.world
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    -91 year ago

    You poor people need to get over yourselves and admit that the lines on the graph of economic factors that exclude poor people look good. Stop feeling sorry for yourselves, the fact that you aren’t happy about us making money is going to LOSE US THE ELECTION so get serious ok?

    The other guy is worse, so we really don’t have to listen to a damn thing you say at all and you have to vote for our guy, get that through your poverty addled brains.

    • yukichigaiOP
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      141 year ago

      The other guy is worse, so we really don’t have to listen to a damn thing you say at all and you have to vote for our guy, get that through your poverty addled brains.

      I mean I hate to say it but this is unironically true. As bad as things are now The Other Guy absolutely would make things worse. Neoliberals may be a scourge but MAGA is cancer. One of the bad cancers. Not even prostate cancer, like pancreatic cancer.

      • @hydroptic@sopuli.xyz
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        51 year ago

        LINE GO UP! This is good for economy! You want line to go up don’t you? If you don’t, you let the communists win

      • capital
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        1 year ago

        This sounds nice and pithy but it’s exactly what I repeated to conservatives throughout the pandemic.

        Cons: “No one around me is dying and we’re all fine. I went to the hospital and it’s empty. What’s the big deal???”

        Everyone with half a brain: “You’re talking about anecdotes. What matters is the data and it’s damning. Lots of people are dying.”

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        To clarify, I mean that this applies to the economy as a whole. Not that everyone does well when the market does.

      • @hydroptic@sopuli.xyz
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        41 year ago

        Poe’s Law and all that; conservative opinions are nearly universally idiotic enough that it’s hard to tell them apart from parody / sarcasm

    • lemmyreader
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      1 year ago

      Let me leave this here :

      The poverty in the West is a different kind of poverty – it is not only a poverty of loneliness but also of spirituality.

      ― A Simple Path: Mother Teresa

      • Ludwig van Beethoven
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        41 year ago

        Unfortunately not because of an even worse version of the worst voting system in democracies: Fucked Past the Post.

          • Ludwig van Beethoven
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            41 year ago

            wait until you see the immense disproportionality of the Hungarian voting system. MMP sounds nice, but the implementation makes it possible for our beloved leader to lose the popular vote and win 2/3 of the Parliament. 48% to 67% of seats. Lovely, eh? That was 2014. Unfortunately our demagogue brainwasher has now convinced 54% of voters the last time. And he won the exact same 2/3 sup.majority.

          • @dumpsterlid@lemmy.world
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            1 year ago

            I really wish there was a way to quantify how dumb a country was in terms of its GDP (not the humans being physically less intelligent, just the culture is stupid even when there is abundant money to fund things) because it would be really fun to watch the US and UK keep fighting neck and neck to be in the lead.

            It would be like following a sports rivalry between two unstoppable teams, except the unstoppable aspect is how much everything is stopping from falling apart for no good reason.

            :)

      • @Cipher22@lemmy.world
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        Not if you wish to count in the US. A vote cast to some random is a vote that may as well not have happened in a general election. You’re not showing a despite for the 2 party system in the federal general election. The time for that is the off year elections. Successfully get some reps or senators elected, frequently enough, then something may count there. Otherwise, the only real hope for more than 2 choices is to force one of the two parties to collapse.