• UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml
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      3 days ago

      Perhaps people would choose something else if third parties had equal access and we changed how we vote to get rid of the spoiler effect.

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        4 days ago

        To avoid immediately resorting to denial and conspiracy theories like some kind of smooth brained conservative, I reckon.

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          4 days ago

          Um… I guess.

          I was thinking of this phrase as being a little thought terminating. Like, instead of addressing the problems democrats have with outreach and mass appeal, etc., we just kind of sulk in the bed we’ve supposedly made ourselves.

          I hadn’t thought of the quelling conspiracies angle, though.

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            4 days ago

            Yeah, it’s definitely a “¿Por Qué No Los Dos?” situation. The Democrats need to figure out how to not come across as Republican Lite, and avoid that thought terminating stuff like you said, but damn is our culture also deeply flawed.