• NobodyElse
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    7 hours ago

    In before “But… but… whatabout Trump!”

    • DudeImMacGyver
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      7 hours ago

      Valid fucking questions though, he’s worse in every meaningful way.

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        6 hours ago

        Of course he is.

        He’s not the bar we need to rate everybody against, though. Being better than Trump is not enough. Let’s hold our government to reasonable standards.

        • ImADifferentBird@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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          5 hours ago

          That’s the problem with the first-past-the-post voting system. It necessarily limits you to two choices, which frequently means you’re merely picking the one you dislike least.

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          That requires a bar to hold the democrats too, and right now that bar is dolled up in orange spray paint and lieing on the floor somewhere. The issue for the modern america is to resolve the spoiler effect. Without a third party there is no “voting in favor” of someone there is “voting against” someone else.