Kindness is Punk

May midterms distroy this backwards Congress

Now that’s believable

I would say more to the point if everything in life needs to make a profit then freedom isn’t free

TJ and I will be a good time

May the midterms destroy Republicans

Something something the banality of evil

edit: whoops didn’t mean to reply twice thought the first one didn’t post

It wasn’t a claim it was an anecdote, it’s a mismatch in communication expectations and I understand the confusion. I stand by my lived experience and expect it to be treated as nothing more than it is.

That being said you shouldn’t look for rigor in social media or get your facts from there if you treat the comments as you seem to, which is to say expecting scientific rigor that’s bad practice. If I was making such a claim I would link to a primary source but again the is a casual conversation on social media. I think you expectations may be onerous for the medium.

Also called an anecdote, an experience I was sharing with someone else, not to say I have conducted an experiment of scientific rigor and have arrived at this result but to say in my time here I have recognized this trend. Only I don’t speak like that because it’s plenty clear from context. Then you attacked it with your own anecdote. So I think the more interesting question is why it bothered you so much that I often find people engage in politics without useful context.

I never argued that you couldn’t.

It sounds like it’s something that’s unfalsifiable in the absence of active disagreement and since it doesn’t fit with your idea of the world you’d rather attack it.

You can isolate people’s reasoning clearly enough.

Agreed, it’s intensely frustrating that we’ve found ourselves caught in a very American “lesser of two evils” system where the major parties don’t give a fuck about the average person. We have a lot of positive change happening at the provincial level. However, a handful of exceptions in the face of an avalanche of examples to the contrary. That said I don’t want to bully someone for hoping, if you think it doesn’t matter, go for it.

Or someone without any useful context who spend their entire day arguing on lemmy. That’s the case with 90% of the people on Lemmy who tell someone not to vote.

I don’t believe you, all these stories of “I voted for Trump because X” no you didn’t you just have cognitive dissonance and are too much of a sniveling cunt to live with it.

I’m not arguing that the NDP didn’t do anything for Canada I’m a staunch supporter of them, but Canada has been barreling closer and closer to a two-party system and to cover your eyes and say it doesn’t exist because it’s inconvenient is insincere at best

Can you tell me the last time NDP won a federal election in Canada?

No, I really don’t, did you see 2016 and 2024. They voted in utter incompetence rather than consider it. I agree with you that it’s incredibly frustrating but in order for a third party to be viable ranked choice would need to be introduced. It’s a bitter pill.

Ooh, that’s just heading off whataboutism at the pass. That being said I criticize the west all the time without bringing up anyone else so stop strawmaning me

Not under FPTP unfortunately.