Cross-posted from “if the entire population just acted in a way they’ve never acted before…” by @[email protected] in [email protected]

furryprovocateur:

literally why is gerrymandering legal. why is america the stupid idiot country.

ndiamichelle:

This could be counterproductive if people actually vote. Everywhere. We can blame the system and politicians all we want but if people don’t get off their ass to vote correctly or just vote in general that would probably solve a good chunk of our problems.

furryprovocateur:

enthralled at the interpretation of the world you have. the best way to vote out a system that exists to suppress votes and bottleneck specific populations from being heard is to vote harder. tell me more.

toloveviceforitself:

There’s a certain kind of democrat whose whole politics is basically “if the entire population just acted in a way they’ve never acted before on a level that borders on the miraculous, we could win without changing anything else about how democrats govern or campaign!” and they think that’s not only a useful insight, but a good justification for rejecting literally any alteration of their ideology, their strategy, or even suggestions that (on the occasions they have power) they alter the rigged system that requires such miracles in the first place.

    • LePoisson@lemmy.world
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      1 day ago

      See I like the aliens come help part and not the nuclear annihilation, mostly because that’s gonna be real bad for whoever survives.

      The aliens could come and grant us a post scarcity economy with replicators or something like that. I mean, we may in the next 40 years see a real paradigm shift of how we organize our society because having like 20%+ unemployment caused by automation and shifting priorities is simply not sustainable for any country. Not sure if that’s what will end up happening, AI is not a magic panacea that it’s pandered as by tech bros, but I do think there’s a strong potential for it to replace a lot of the bullshit jobs that we have that kind of just exist because of the bureaucracy of corporate America and compliance regulations and such.

      Anyways, I also doubt aliens would even visit here. We’re so violent as a species and have lots of things that go boom, there’s probably way better planets to visit than Earth in our galaxy. I know I’d stick a quarantine zone around our solar system and go on with life if I were an alien overlord.