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I don’t really disagree with anything you wrote.
The thing I still can’t understand is that the consensus of Lemmygrad and other leftist Lemmy instances is that both of these things are somehow true at the same time
And I can’t understand this logic. Voting simultaneously doesn’t matter but also matters and is a full throated endorsement of genocide.
I also agree that we don’t have a real democracy, but if the choice is between “fake democracy with project 2025” and “fake democracy with milquetoast corpos” I’m not sure why I would do anything to help the openly fascist fascists take power.
You can just vote 3rd party i.e. Jill Stein.
Jill Stein is not a viable candidate, that leads to Trump being elected.
As you just proved, voting doesn't work
First past the post voting doesn't work
Nope, makes no difference. Australia and Japan both use alternative voting systems, and both still very conservative countries, australia carrying out its ongoing indigenous eviction under that system.
Bourgeois parliamentarism has proven to be the safest shell for capitalist rule.
We can recommend some books on what makes socialist democracy different from capitalist dictatorships.
FPtP isn’t the half of it. The US was formed of a bourgeois revolution to overthrow a still semi-feudal monarchy, and we’ve been a bourgeois-run state ever since, just as the bourgeois land-owning, slave-owning Founding Fathers intended. Our government was never meant to represent the working class; it almost never has and seldomer will, despite eventually allowing women and non-whites (who aren’t disenfranchised by the carceral system) to vote..
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy: