• jpreston1986@lemmy.world
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    22 hours ago

    I love seeing it. We’ve got a party in power that’s rolling back environmental protections, rolling back regulations, increasing the amount of pollution companies are allowed to dump, while backing a far-right dictator to take over and decimate the Amazon rainforest but, BUT, it’s actually the minority party that’s been thwarting their efforts’ fault.

    See I figured the people trying to ban cancerous pesticides and fund green technology would be the good guys, but now from this article I see that actually they’re the bad guys all along!

    Guess this election I’ll just stick my thumb up my ass and dance around the living room to the sound of my own superior thinking instead of voting. That’ll show’em 👍

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      22 hours ago

      The world is more complicated than deciding who is the bad guys and who is the good guys.

      One party would let companies sell you cancerous pesticides and call it infant formula if the bribe is right.

      The other will spend all of their time and effort attacking marginal issues which don’t directly affect the bottom line of the fossil fuel companies.

      It looks like they’re trying to save the climate but, as it turns out, we’re not going to reverse centuries of industrial activity by providing $500 off a plug-in solar unit or making it so that pesticides can’t be applied 4 weeks before harvest instead of 2. They pick their battles, and their chosen battlefields are ones that are in no danger of disrupting the fossil fuel hegemony.

      You should still vote, just don’t buy into the idea that neo-liberals, R or D, are going to make meaningful changes which would harm fossil fuel companies. There are some leftest candidates running, support them or vote for the lesser evil.

      Not voting is always the wrong strategy.

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        22 hours ago

        The rule is, always vote for the left-most person running that has a chance at winning. Progressive socialists are the only way forward. But sometimes you gotta hold your nose and vote for the person that’s simply not running on the protect-the-pedophiles platform.