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They voted for the worst person you could possibly choose for president.
That’s the part that still amazes me, a decade after he was first elected. If you asked someone 15 years ago “Who in popular culture should not be in charge of the most powerful country in the western world?” the answer would have had a high probability of being this piece of shit. What is inherently wrong with a culture that elects this fucking trainwreck TWICE?
54% of American adults can’t read at a grade 6 level.
Also a concerted cyberwar by Russia which has been going on for more than a decade.
And the election campaign funded by billionaires
And the propaganda machine funded by the same billionaires.
And they had the richest tech billionaire, and our most hostile enemy, partner up with the most prolific traitor in American history to rig the election.
What does that even mean though? I read huge books during grade 6.
It means they cannot understand ideas, concepts and vocabulary that a 6th grader should according to academic standards. Newspapers are normally written at the 6th grade level (historically anyway) because that was the average reading comprehension 30 years ago. Now it’s of course much worse.
You might have read huge books in 4th grade, that’s one data point–you-- against huge national data sets and trends. Your lone data point of what you read is called an anecdote. Anecdotes are generally ignored in debate as they are seen as unhelpful distractions at best and deliberately attempts to distract the discussion at worst.
You still didn’t define the academic standard, and you didn’t answer the question. 6th grade level according to now or 29 years ago? Was there a test? 6th graders now are in worse shape now.
Also, your response was condescending. I simply hear about these levels and don’t understand what they actually are.
Honest stupidity bordering on developmental issues plus a complete lack of morals and fixed ideology which means anything goes as long as it seems popular (sheep stay with the herd).
America is filled with pieces of human shit. He is the perfect rep for these people.
This is something important that a lot of people don’t understand. Trump genuinely represents roughly 50% of the US public; they all want to be him.
I was simply born in Cascadia and I just want Oregon to secede. I know that it seems unlikely but everything that’s happened is unlikely.
Reminds me of Stellaris. Fucking vassal states. What genius left the ‘can declare war’ setting on ?
Worse, some dumbass set the “Join their wars” to “All” instead of “None”
Can Determined Exterminators become vassals? I thought they didn’t do stuff like diplomacy with anything but their own kind?
Fuck Reddit and fuck Spez.
That thread was a mess but exactly what is expected from the sort of people enabled by spez.
Why are you linking to reddit?
Just to piss you off.
The obvious solution is to only vote for server side solutions voted on by users.
If your “client” state provokes a war for you to get involved in, that makes you the client state.
If you voted Democrat or Republican you 100% voted for this.
You’ve sat through an entire generation now of presidents just deciding to involve us in wars, and in fact, several wars at once.
“I don’t know how first past the post works”
Democrats: 1 + 1 = 2, Republicans: 1 + 1 = 3, Moderates: 1 + 1 = 2.5.
Bothsidesrthesame!!!
The irony of your reply is that the only modern president to purposely disengage us from Bush and Obama’s entrenched wars was Donald, most notably in Syria and Afghanistan. Obama even started calling US soldiers ‘advisors’ so he could keep tens of thousands deployed in Iraq and still pretend the war was over.
But you’re just going to ignore that and pretend that, sure, Democrats are the rational ones when it comes to US wars.
I’m apt to generally not trust the party that spews disinformation, flawed economic policy, erosion of civil rights, and anti science pro religion. I’m not apt to trust the party or candidate that lies intentionally far more often and used voter purging to cheat in the 2024 election, the one with a playbook straight from 1930s Germany.
But sure, pretend that Republicans are generally better because of a few, hyper specific, cherry picked ideas relating only to US foreign military policy. For a limited time span. By your logic all non NATO members should be annexed by Israel and Russia tomorrow to avoid any further hassle.
You were inviting a rational, historical rebuttal by posting nonsense in the first place.
Actually your comment is vague nonsense and convincing no one. I’ve never seen so many words have absolutely no content.
Projection
You’re pointing out a few flawed Democrat officials, not what the majority of voters believe. The Overton window is shifted too far right for us to have a better option.
If the voters won’t remove their support of a candidate for their actions they support that candidate. Not a hard concept.
It’s not a “flaw” they know exactly what they’re doing and they keep doing it
President Jill Stein will fix it all. /s
You say that, but she’d actually do what she intends if elected. You know Democrats and Republicans will not.
she’d actually do what she intends
She already did what she intended. Donald Trump made it into office in 2016.
People who argue both sides do not have a genuine opinion, they are just parroting what others have said.
You’re welcome to gaslight yourself, but I haven’t slept through the last thirty years.
Clearly you have, since you were asleep while fascism walked in the door and made itself at home.
lol you just spouted terminology at me
When shit gets real they “didn’t vote for it.” I cannot think of a more irresponsible group of idiots than republicans.
No no no, they’re the party of “personal responsibility”, remember? And “family values”, right? They have no core values, they’re a cult and will believe whatever their propaganda networks tell them to.
Representative democracy isn’t about voting “for this shit”, it is about electing a king who then do whatever he pleases. And it isn’t the USA problem, it is the “representative democracy” problem. It is just happen that you have a remarkably stupid king at the moment.
Don’t confuse your rotten kleptocracy with how representative democracy works in civilised countries.
Accurate but a bit mean/aggressive.
Do I upvote or downvote?
No, be mean to dumb people
Cruel* people. One is a transient condition. The other, a choice.
Also be sure to stop once they stop, otherwise you become the bully yourself. Don’t ask me how I know.
Not all representative democracies have a single elected individual with supreme power. The US isn’t meant to either.
Eh… Both who? Isn’t meant for what? Rephrase please…
*not all
But they all are. That is the very essence of the “representative” democracy. You’re totally correct saying about “single elected individual” but having 200 “single elected individuals” doesn’t change much – they still do whatever they want. Your job is limited to throwing a bulletin in the vote box. After that, you are completely out of control, and all you can do is to wait until the next elections or make a revolution.
That is blatantly false. You have just gotten used to the corruption in your removed country.
You seem to post a lot of incorrect information.
In the US system of government, the President’s power is supposed to be checked by Congress and the Supreme Court. In other words, you’re not giving supreme executive power to just one person. Unfortunately since Republicans practically always do what Trump wants, we’ve lost that check.
1 person or 200 persons – it doesn’t matter much. It wasn’t the point. The point is that those persons are completely safe to ignore the citizens.
