• Kurroth@aussie.zone
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    As good as preferential/ranked voting is. Compulsory voting would have a much larger positive impact on US’ democracy

    Ideally both

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      Many far right countries (australia, japan, south korea) use ranked choice voting… it doesn’t make a bit of difference. If capitalists control the political system, then they will stack candidates and fund the campaigns that support their interests, and the “democracy” there is nothing but political theatre.

      Outside of Marxists, even the ancient greeks knew that representative government is just another name for plutocracy, because only wealthy / landed family have the money and prestige to fund campaigns to get themselves elected. Liberals still haven’t learned this simple lesson.

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        In what world is Australia far right? Center right/neoliberal today maybe. But not far fight, especially compared to other countries

        Also I recommend compulsory voting.

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      Neither can fix the systemic problems caused by capitalism though, democracy in capitalism is democracy for capitalists.

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        Well then use that amendment that children keep dying for or stop complaining. So pathetic

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            What good is complaining amongst a communist org, if your democracy and elections a rlcapitalist?

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                Yes you are, you are winging about the the system to people like me who aren’t part of it

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                  Didn’t the US make one of your prime ministers disappear for criticising pine gap? Isn’t Australia part of five eyes? Isn’t Australia an “Enhanced Opportunities Partner” to NATO? I think whether you like it or not you are part of the Euro-Amerikan empires system.

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                  You live in capitalism too, last I checked, and just because I don’t think complaining will change anything doesn’t mean I can’t complain online in my free time.

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          Please stop financing and enabling the USA, also, and stop using the US dollar for international trade. So lame that you haven’t done that

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      How will compulsive voting improve anything? Now you’re dragging even more uninformed dopes to vote, a lot of them will vote for spite. Far more than you realize, I think

      Trump was 100% the vote-for-spite-burn-it-down candidate. That’s how they get you, the old switcheroo

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        Now you’re dragging even more uninformed dopes to vote, a lot of them will vote for spite.

        uninformed defines almost all american voters and the last election showed that 30 million people who voted in 2020, chose not to vote in 2024 instead of spite voting.