• Natanox@discuss.tchncs.de
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    10 hours ago

    In a proper democracy shit like this would lead to people voting for a party with the same values as the mayor but without the infighting. Hell, perhaps the mayor would even jump ship themself. This pressure then forces the corrupt party to either fix themselves or vanish.

    In Germany we got enough parties so they can completely tank for a while for doing stupid shit, then recover organically. The Greens did that, The Left just recovered, the Libertarians… hopefully never recover. Well, except for the conservatives/right-wing 'cause old as well as pissed off people do not properly think about it anymore (conservatices just lose because old people are dying). An inherent issue with democracy you’re completely at the mercy of.

    A 2-Party system simply can’t properly work.

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        3 hours ago

        I wish horseshoe theory was real. We can go even farther right than this, to literal kingdoms. Countries we often describe as going “too far left” became more hierarchical.

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        6 hours ago

        This is some real conspiracy theory thinking. This entire article boils down to “I have figured out this secret thing that nobody else, not even the former president or candidates of the Democratic party know about!” It’s all a wild supposition with zero backing evidence, just this one person’s shower thought being passed off as fact.

        Please don’t buy into this level of lizard-people nonsense. It’s not helpful for anyone.

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        12 hours ago

        Each time I see it I’m never 100% on board

        Duped = it’s intentional?

        “Never attribute to malice […]”

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          12 hours ago

          Yes, it is intentional. And the “never attribute to malice what you can attribute to incompetence” trope is clearly wrong in the context of politicians.

          When they do these things they know what they are doing and who they are doing it for. Imagine an engineer would have designed 10 generations of exploding phones. Would you say it is just incompetence after the third one? So why give politicians the slack to always be “incompetent” in the same way over and over again that just so happens to defend the interests of the oligarchy against the normal people?