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Why is the american electorate too dumb to understand both democrats and republicans are financed by the same oligarchs? What’s so complicated about it?
As an American, I can attest that Americans as a whole are pretty stupid when it comes to politics. In our defense, we're fed a steady diet of misinformation and propaganda from shortly after birth, and we don't have the benefit of often encountering different cultural and political perspectives like Europeans do. We do have ready access to information, but being educated is actively frowned upon in many circles. It's a solid swath of homogenous stupid here, coast to coast.
Because political ttibalsim is marketed to keep us from ganging up on the rich. And because the " just following orders" crowd doesn't realize they're the ones thtabget left holding bag and their bosses get away.
sports team, celebrity worship was created to achieve the same thing, political tribalism in the early days, those were the foundation.
Yep. Bread and circuses.
Yes they are funded by the same billionaires and will never go against that class. But they are not the same. The latest Republican Party is now so corrupt, anti constitutionalist and working against the people. They are not the same.
Corruption light and Corruption heavy. I have clear preferences if given the choice.
He's doing largely what Project 2025 outlined. I'm not sure why anyone is surprised
It's because they're stupid
Legit, something I heard from a trump voter after the election: yeah, I heard about Project 2025 and I hate it. But this election was to get trump into office, I'll vote against Project 2025 in 2025.
headdesk
and he said he was campaigning on it, why are is his constituents surprised.
If they only would remember this at the next election. If there is a next election...
Trump is doing exactly what he said he was going to do when American voters gave him all the power and took it away from the democrats.
You do realize that there are people who did not vote for him?
That always gets me with these kinds of comments too. It's like they are telling us we deserve this because we voted for it but almost half of the people that voted wanted something else. That's a whole lot of people who didn't want it.
I guess when you are talking to the void on the Internet you can aim your anger at whoever you want. We are just caught in the cross hairs
The people that sat out the process canceled out the people who didn’t want it and you can be mad at my comment or mad at the system for letting this happen.
Which is the majority, if you count those that voted for Kamala = ~75 million, and those that did not vote = ~90 million.
Yes but more people voted for him so he won.
But that doesn't mean that people who did not vote for him or literally could not vote in the first place are irrelevant. Or what about the people who are actively resisting?
"resisting" is doing a lot of heavy lifting here.
Don't give them facts. They're just an irredeemable troll
Unfortunately for the point of this conversation they are irrelevant.
That’s how the process works.
allegedly
No he actually won but I’d love to see evidence if you have any.
i mean, thats what the numbers say, but actually he did a whole-ass treason so... fuck the numbers, actually.
It’s also what all the court cases said so far.
Too bad more people didn’t get off their asses and voted for Harris when it mattered.
i voted for harris in a gerrymandered district. i didn't have a vote; i feel distinctly disenfranchised as a matter of fact. edit: guess the state.
That’s great.
Lots of people didn’t vote though.
i didn’t have a vote; i feel distinctly disenfranchised as a matter of fact.
That’s great.
centrism manifest.
Realistist manifest.
I can understand the confusion you might have though.
Condescension is how centrists announce to the world that they're wrong.
why didn’t they?
Because they were fine with Trump winning.
The left kept telling you that if you didn't abandon genocide support, you would lose.
Centrists made their choice.
Why doesn’t the left run candidates?
Keep gloating that we didn't get primaries and that you got two candidates that represent you.
Would you shut up? That's done. We need to deal with now. Exactly what is your comment supposed to do? It helps with ZERO. What l, you want to sit and smuglybtell everyone your right? Congrats. You and millions of others. Now shut up. Pretty please
Exactly what is your comment supposed to do?
It blames people who weren't 100% on board with genocide in the hopes that they'll shut up forever.
So your answer is to be an asshole?
Nothing good ever came from being an Asshole.
Nice deleting of your previous answers. Don't b a dick.
No sorry but everyone who didn’t vote needs to be reminded everyday what they helped bring in.
Ah, do youre young and unaccustomed to the real world and how these things happen
Well there's lots of documentaries about how if happens. How cults are born and fall that is.
But maybe you're perfect, never got scsmmed or fooled. What's that? You're not?
Then why are you acting like that?
You should, yes. Listen to your base and you might not lose.
I have to clarify this: netanyahu is not your base.
I literally am against Israel’s genocide but I guess you wouldn’t care because it’s against your narrative.
I literally am against Israel’s genocide
You blame anyone who says that democrats shoudn't have enabled it. That's not what being against genocide looks like.
Your stilsn idiot.
No ones doing that. Your making that up just to be an ass
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between gerrymandering, fraudulent fraud claims, last-minute roll drops, mail-in 'challenges', a coup, failure to enforce existing voter rights laws (and i could go on for some time in this vein i believe, and provide evidence at request for each of these), dont you feel there might be some suppressed turnout rather than simply low turnout? don't you feel there might be some legitimate claims to election tampering that might not have to do with directly interfering with the vote tally?
also i got no problem with you particularly smcf. i wasn't part of the downvotes here, i stepped away to listen to some music about an hour ago and i came back to that person telling you to shut up and i want you to know that from my perspective we are having a respectful exchange of opinions, no hard feelings here for making a valid observation about lazy complacent voting habits in american voters, nor for the unstated criticism lurking behind "That's great."
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