• 22decembre@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    As a non-American, I beg you, get rid of Trump. You’re the most powerful country in the world, your election has so much impact outside your borders, we are looking at it and are expecting…

    What happens in November ? We don’t know and it’s kinda scary…

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      10 months ago

      We’re trying. 60 million of us (about 18%) are mentally defective backward degenerates that hold disproportionate power in our idiotic electoral system. The tyranny of this minority brought you trump.

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      10 months ago

      Most of us know, and are just as terrified as you are. We’re just gerrymandered out of any ability to actually affect the process rationally.

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          No, I’m sticking with most. We’re just gerrymandered enough that the smaller group can exert an outsized influence over the rest of us.

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            10 months ago

            I like your optimism but unfortunately cannot share it. Too many IRL experiences to convince me that sane people are anything but a 30% minority nationwide.

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              I’ve had those experiences too, but the data doesn’t support that conclusion. Far from being the “silent majority,” they’re actually a very loud minority. If our elections were truly fair, they’d never have been given the time of day.

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          10 months ago

          They’re only about a third. That’s not really solace, though. The Nazis only had about 30% support, as did Mussolini. That’s all it takes for fascism to succeed.

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      10 months ago

      As a Canadian, its never been so divided as when the previous president was in power. Are we divided? Yes.

      As bad as when Cheeto Dorito was in power? Absolutely not.

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      10 months ago

      Yeah I’m so excited to vote for genocide joe over the criminally insane orange.

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          10 months ago

          unfortunatly idiots like that are all over this place and completely remove the ability to have an actual rational discussion without them wedging that one topic into every fucking conversation