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I am not going to be sober if it turns out we have to deal with Trump (or notorious couch-fucker JD Vance) for another 4 years

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 month ago (1 children)

No wonder you feel powerless, what with first-past-the-post voting and… well, everything else 😅

We've definitely got our problems here in Yurop too (like literal fucking neofascists being super popular), but at least we get proportional representation – I get to vote for democratic socialists so that it actually means something

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago

First past the post is bad, but the electoral college can make voter apathy unbearable. My state is more of a swing state now, but it used to be solidly red for decades, and voting blue felt like spitting in a hurricane.