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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Voting doesnt mean shit.

Assuming the numbers aren't straight up fake and red team didnt cheat at the last mile.¹

Assuming everyone who wanted to got to²

And most people weren't so demoralized by every option that remotely represented them or ehat they wanted be ratfucked or blatant lies that just flipped and did the same old shit anyway³

You still have a shitty system made to disenfranchise people by choosing aristocratic proxies rather than members of their communities, keeping them alienated at every step from the actual decision making that effects their lives.

¹you'd have to be dumber than a box of disposable hammers

²delusional, bigoted or both

³have you talked to an american this century? Just read a history book?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Why do you have a bunch of unnecessary sourcing notes with no sources? What’s with the little ones and twos?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

They're called foot notes¹, and while most often used for citing sources¹, they can also be used to include tangential or repeated information without breaking flow, as demonstrated here¹! Also for comedic or other effect.

¹you fool!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yea I’m aware of foot notes. But you have no notes.

And they’re not comedic.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

That obe was an example, and the one you originally commented on was jot meant to be. Was just keeping flow.