No matter how much we vote, the regime stays the same. More war. More surveillance. Less freedom.

This guy didn't initiate any new conflicts. Elections matter.

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There are times where I’m actually pretty grateful for the system (ex: neocon trump appointees who constrained his dictator idiocy during the first term).

IMO we just need to improve accountability & make the system more responsive to the people, which unfortunately will prob require a big crisis.

This is fair. But how much did he really change before the rigged system regained control?

Churchill ...

"Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.…’

My fear is that we're in a period of FAFO in the age of the growing centralizing power of AI where the need for the cooperation of people in order to govern is going to zero.    I see the usual remedies of mass protest, boycotts, and strikes as quickly becoming unviable. 

Deploying the power that we have (including voting) while we still have it is the only option that we have considering that one side has all the AR-15's.

Also money in politics works because of disengaged electorate. 

Are there alternatives?

That’s kinda the point though - the money being spent is by the people who have corrupted our system in the first place.

Big business and big government are corrupt from tooth to toe. No, we wouldn’t have seen the same immigration policies - but we would have seen some other horrible big government bullshit. Small objectives would be different - the big stuff would remain the same. We would still be considering war, we would still be spending way more than tax revenues, we would still be sending tax money to other countries while Americans can’t afford food. We would still have lobbyists controlling basically all government from local to state to federal. 

I’m certainly not saying it would have been exactly the same. But the really big stuff that matters the most would be.

You're saying that if Harris were elected we would be seeing mass deportation and the deployment of the American military against US citizens?   I'm not interested in "what abouts".  I'm talking about what's going on in LA at this moment.

On the other side, would Gary Gensler have stepped aside and lawsuits against Uniswap, Kraken, and Coinbase have been dropped?

My internet search says that 13 billion was spent on the 2024 election (3 billion in the presidential election alone).  Why spend so much money if the results do not matter?  The answer is they mattered a lot and we're experiencing the consequences.  I'm happy about Gensler being gone, I'm upset about everything else. 

I fear that we're all personally going to find out how different living under a dictator is from living under a flawed democracy.

Definitely part of the problem. Money in politics is soo pervasive now. In Kratom regulation, we regularly see Pharma make donations to tiny nobody local and state politicians to have them push bans. 

Like even your local city council is probably getting money from some corporate interest. It’s  fucked.

It’s because of entrenched wealth and the amount of it flooding into politics…

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I saw the same video lol. Made sense to me. 😅

Ironically just saw a post of interview from 10yrs ago with Ari? saying that voting is just supporting a useless system and the only answer is killing politicians 😳😅

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South Park said it when I was in like 6th grade. Turd sandwich or giant douche. And that’s literally been our options every election since that episode.

Voting for democrats or republicans is like getting to choose between the firing squad or lethal injection, either way you are going to die but one way might be slightly less painful.

Idk, I’m starting to think that the only way things really change is with violence. 🫠

I get that feeling, it’s tough. But I still believe real change is possible, even if it’s slow. Every voice and every vote still matters more than we think

America. Did i miss where we were getting less surveillance, war, and spending?

Are you talking about America? Or Russia? Or Israel? Or Iran? Must be China.

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"..And we're all just actors playing our part" -Shakespeare

The world is a stage

We are given the illusion of choice but even majority votes won't elect a president

Broken paradigms that need a significant shift!

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i know

i was just hoping more ppl realised that collecting the bricks from the wall leads to the roof falling on their heads...

I dont think many ever cared about actually changing the world, other than enriching themselves

My take: voting does not matter in the regulatory capture environment. Legally, you can only buy the election, you cannot win it anymore. 

Crypto, before it sold itself to the bankers too, was my last hope... I was here exactly for that single reason. 

But no one cares anymore...

Exactly how the founding fathers intended it, at least they put it in the guise of protecting the American people

Sad that most people still don’t realize this. 
2 sides of the same coin. People still think we are left vs right.
We are worthless to these people.

only thing that'll change is if the army mutinies after taking losses