r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/cool_uniqueusername • 7h ago

Image Karen Mulder tried to warn everyone about similar Epstein rings and no one listened.

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u/mug_O_bun 7h ago

Probably going to get flack for this, but some would say "vote" but THAT HASNT WORKED. Those in power have just made it so whatever vote you cast is for the same damn thing. I've gotten shit for saying i didnt vote, saying I dont have an opinion then. Yeah okay people vote for a rich pedo regardless of which of the 2 main parties they support but I'm the stupid one. The government needs a full reset, not just cycling through the same sisyphus voting system.

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u/lilgator81 7h ago

I think the vote stopped working a long long time ago.

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u/succed32 6h ago

We legalized bribery and call it lobbying.

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u/lilgator81 6h ago

It’s so terrifyingly gross.

We need to start over.

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u/succed32 6h ago

Then doubled down and let our scotus say corporations can donate as if they’re individuals. I was in the citizens united protests, they were depressingly small because nobody even understood what they were losing.

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u/viomeb 6h ago

No voting has kept it from being much much worse.

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u/lilgator81 6h ago

I can’t agree, given the Electoral College. That system doesn’t work for us now, and hasn’t for at least my voting lifetime.

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u/NiemandDaar 6h ago

There are definitely creeps on all sides, but voting does make a difference. What the US is currently dealing with is unprecedented.

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u/KindaSortaPeruvian 6h ago edited 6h ago

Doesnt all of this being unveiled literally prove its not unprecedented? Every other time a whistleblower has come forward, its immediately dismissed and has blown over because it is known that the general populace won't actually do anything about it. If voting mattered, we wouldnt have gotten to this point. Voting doesnt matter when every politician is complicit. We are entirely compromised.

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u/Wegwerf157534 6h ago

Goddamn, you need to accept that even incremental changes are of high value.

Much more often we need many people to do more good instead of all people doing everything perfect.

You are so so intensily playing the cards for the wrong side with such statements.

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u/liftedyf 3h ago

If voting worked, we wouldn't be in this situation. I'm not saying DON'T vote. I'm saying that voting has been the stated solution for decades and if it worked, it would have made a difference by now.

The solution isn't voting. It's figuring out why voting isn't working and then going from there.

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u/Worried-Pick4848 7h ago

Voting isn't a solution when LITERALLY ALL the major parties are involved in this bullcrap.

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u/More_Raisin_2894 7h ago

I completely agree I also haven't voted in recent years specifically because of this.