• MyOpinion@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    It is hard to believe this moron has a chance of being president again. We are a doomed country.

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      1 year ago

      Don’t let the media and talking heads convince you of anything.

      There are a great majority of people who want nothing to do with Trump, his Russian bootlicking or any of his other xenophobic hate.

      Just vote.

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        But the system is rigged so that a relatively small minority of morons can fuck shit up for everybody else. So yeah, guys, vote like your life depends on it because it literally does.

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          And those of us who are voting and get elected will, and have been, continue to stop vote rigging, jerrymandering, and voter intimidation.

          Voting doesn’t end at the end of the presidential election. It involves your local elections too. Especially anything to do with your local educational system.

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          It’s not a relatively small minority. Trump has lost the popular vote every time he’s run, but not by huge margins. There are a lot of people that legitimately want Trump as a president, and many more that view him as the lesser of two evils. Don’t underestimate that and definitely don’t let down your guard.

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        Exactly, and even if it might seem like your single vote doesn’t matter, you would be surprised. trump won in 2016 because disinformation on social media convinced people that their vote won’t change anything and Hillary will win anyway.

        Also vote at least every 2 years, it isn’t just the president that matters, the Congress is important too

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          Congress is more imortant than the president by the looks from an outsider.

          How is the house reps elected in the USA?

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            By district, which is all the voters in a smaller geographic area. House Reps are up for re election every 2 years. The intent of the House is to give more representatives to states with higher populations, so for example New York has 26 representatives while Kansas only has 4.

            However, instead of purely representing population, the number of House reps has been capped at 435, which weighs heavily in favor of less populated (Republican) states. If that cap was removed, Democrats would have a permanent lock on the House.

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      1 year ago

      I don’t know.

      I’m perplexed honestly.

      I live in italy and here too government took a steep turn to the right since last elections.

      It is like the most roborantly bamboozling idiocy someone from a stage can scream the more he gets applauded as the folks’ hero for speaking their unsung voices.

      On the other hand if you try to build an organic and critical dialogue you only get yawned away as utterly boring.

      I don’t think it is the ones screaming from their stages being the morons, well not the most moron at least, but instead they are those who give their precious votes, hard conquered from their ancestors who gift them with a life in a democracy, to these unambiguously unmistakable frauds, and who hide in the self-obliviousness of the guilty conscience for the vote they have cast their incapability of admitting their own deep existential self-inadequacy.

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        Lots of people are incredibly stupid. Many of those stupid people are also selfish and mean. It will always be easy to appeal to those people by blaming all their problems on others. Until science figures out a way to force on the empathy parts of our brains, we’ll go through these cycles of stupid people cheering on fascism.