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  • They’re no more stupid than the average voter in my experience. I understand it’s anecdotal but I have dealt with republicans who are quite smart and they vote like they do because they have oil investments or want unemployment to go up to decrease labor turnover in their business.

    Ultimately democrats and republicans serve the ruling class. If all the voters who aren’t voting republican were smart they would vote for candidates that will make change. They would pick up from their more expensive major cities and move to lower population states, counties, and cities to dramatically shift the representative power. It’s just not that simple, people don’t want to live in bumfuck wyoming but the system is busted and Wyoming with a population of ~500k has as much say in the senate as California with ~40 million.

    I think it’s fucking stupid to vote again and again in the same corrupt institution that has been losing to fascism for the past 40 years and expecting a different outcome to be stupid. To vote smart you gotta vote states with low populations and republican inclinations. WY, AK, ND, SD, MT, NH, WV, ID, NB. Seriously, if 200k leftists from around the country moved to WY and flipped two senate seats for leftists it would break almost every senate tie in my lifetime. Notice how voting smart costs money? Yeah, wonder how that came about.





  • It wont help you feel better but more Americans voted against him than for him the first time. Hell, even on the number of people who didn’t vote are framed as if it would change the outcome when unless they live in very specific locations it wouldn’t because the system is fucked.

    Not telling you to be less angry here, I encouraged Canadians to feel this resentment towards me and my fellow Americans. I’m just trying to explain the shitshow more than corporate interests care to.






  • Ohmmy@lemmy.dbzer0.comtosimpsonsshitposting@sh.itjust.worksGo on then
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    3 months ago

    You’re spot on because inflation is what allows the whole thing to work. If instead there was rapid deflation on the trillions of debt held by Americans it would cause many to default.

    But hell, talking about inflation is so weird because to most I feel like it just means the things people buy are now more expensive. Things are more expensive because people are able/willing to pay more, they’re just in the losing side of the disparity. It wasn’t inflation of the dollar that caused housing prices in places like Phoenix to climb over the past 20 years, it was people with more money than them moving in from places like California.