• flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyz
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    Perfectly represented - never. Partially yes - I can always find someone who’s opinions are not completely abhorrent, and some of it agrees with mine. But it’s never all in one candidate.

    So I resort to alternate voting. If any of the acceptable candidates is currently in opposition I vote for them, choosing whichever party is not currently in government but has a reasonable chance to enter government in the next cycle.

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        I’m done licking wounds though. Anyone can wear the mask. Run for something. If you aren’t running for something fuck up government infrastructure. Their next move is to “deport” US Citizens. They already have and we cannot allow it. This is a war on us from our own government.

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          I’m not from the US, but I still think it should have been Bernie. If he had become president, we wouldn’t all be in trouble now.

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    2 months ago

    Not once

    I’ve been working full time for almost 10 years now helping prop up this failed economy, and this country has convinced me it hates me and wants me to die.

    I don’t get any help from any institutions because I don’t qualify, but I can’t save money because i live paycheck to paycheck. If I lose this job I have 2 months until I’m homeless and have to KMS.

    Just paid taxes so they don’t imprison me for it, despite setting up witholding on my pay i still owed $1600 i couldn’t afford so now I am doing a 2 month payment plan on my fucking taxes.

    I need to get out of this country before living here kills me

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      I’ve been in that exactly that same spot. Poor, but not poor enough. Getting by is a struggle, but it is possible, so you keep going, but there’s never anything left over, so you’re never really getting anywhere. It really can feel like you are treading water in the ocean.

      Best of luck to you. I hope things go your way soon. Don’t give up!

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    2 months ago

    Nationally, I kind of feel like the guys in right now have a similar-ish outlook. Locally, never, because this is a safe riding for a party I’ve never voted for.

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    The platform that best supports my concerns is that of the US Green Party.

    Unfortunately, it has far to go to represent that platform in any effective way. No possibly effective leader that I know of has ever emerged for it. (The current, so-called leader has zero presence anytime, anywhere.) If it could become at least -somewhat- sizeable, it could outreach its size in two-party deadlocks by trading deciding votes for concessions.

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    2 months ago

    Jeremy Corbyn, 2019 UK election. He lost due to several factors but especially sabotage from within his own party and a corrupt media. Apparently it’s all well documented in this 3 part series though I’ve never had the heart to watch it.

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    2 months ago

    Never.

    Vermin Supreme comes close to treating the corporate state with the respect it deserves, but there’s no leadership under all that absurdity.

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    2 months ago

    There is this one guy that represented me well for the last 6 years. While he was running the party things were good. From then on things went a bit downhill. He is still there and doing a good job though.