• HappycamperNZ@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    As people- agreed.

    As people with the potential to make world critical decisions that can shape the rest of mankinds history you should be interested.

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      9 months ago

      You must be young, believing politics can change anything. :) It’s charming.

      The decisions of where the world is going is made almost exclusively by random strangers you will never vote for or even know their name. Trump or Biden or whatever are just figureheads for the public.

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        9 months ago

        Trump and the Republicans chose who’s sitting on the SCOTUS and let me tell you, they changed the lives of a ton of women. That’s all politics, had Democrats been in power from 2016 forward that wouldn’t have happened, the only way to change that would have been to elect them.

        Either you’re very young and trying to sound edgy or you’re old and ignorant if you don’t realize that everything is political and it’s the politicians we elect that have a real say in the matter.

        • aberrate_junior_beatnik@midwest.social
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          9 months ago

          had Democrats been in power from 2016 forward

          They had a 60-seat senate majority in the senate in 2008 and chose not to codify Roe. They twirled their thumbs while Republicans openly plotted to do exactly what they did, for decades. If Democrats had been in power in 2016, Republicans would have done the same thing in 2020, or 2024, or whenever they got power back.

          I’m not saying don’t vote Democrat, but electoral politics is not enough.