First Past The Post voting artificially limits the number of viable political parties. This reduces competition in the electoral process. Legacy political parties get to run incredibly weak candidates, and mainstream media can run their bread and circuses about stuff that doesn’t impact the 1%s bank accounts.
Something worth noting for the Europeans. Party registration really only exists in the US so people can vote in closed primaries. So if you wanted to pick the democratic candidate that would appear on the general election ballot, you needed to register democratic, and vice versa.
Someone who registers for a party is usually someone who aligns with that party, but not always. Sometimes people register strategically and vote in the opposing party’s primary if the candidate in their own party’s primary is a shoe in.
Only Republicans have closed primaries. You can register independent and vote in the Dem primaries.
Edit: I just learned this varies from state to state.
I’m sorry the rest of the world.
We don’t know yet why the shooter tried to kill Trump.
We do know how the Republicans will spin this.
Trump can’t be intimidated.
Trump is a soldier and a warrior and a survivor.
They tried to silence him.
Trump’s opponents are desperate and violent.
Guns aren’t that dangerous.
And more bullshit like that.
This assassination attempt will energize GOP voters and blunt Democratic attacks. It makes it easier for Trump to promote himself and criticize Biden, while Biden has to defend himself without endorsing a madman, and cannot attack Trump without starting with, “I do not condone violence, but…”
You know those will be the talking points because each of them is demonstrably false.
If they had to be honest, they’d never win another election.
You forgot what they’re already saying; God sent his angels to move the bullet.
Don’t want to make any Americans feel bad, but that’s where your country is at right now. No one’s going to think less of you if you’d like to come join us elsewhere.
My favorite so far was my friend calling the shooter a storm trooper. Might as well laugh when you have no control anyways eh? 😆
Personally, I’m just using this as another point to bring up whenever I start talking to my religious family about how he’s the antichrist.
I don’t believe in such things, but it’s a little funny to me just how many parallels can be drawn from “the biclical things we know about the antichrist” to trump, his businesses, and history.
This is just another log on the bonfire. “survived assassination attempt”
It really takes a lot of wind off their sails, because now they have to try and justify their religious views while also justifying why their religious views are wrong.
Or they just go full cognitive dissonance and hold many simultaneously conflicting beliefs.
Or they just go full cognitive dissonance and hold many simultaneously conflicting beliefs.
It’s this one. Always. They cannot be reasoned with in my first hand experience.
No one’s going to think less of you if you’d like to come join us elsewhere.
Appreciate the offer, but I’d think less of me. Call it silly or sentimental, but I’ve called this damaged country my home all my life. Not just where I live, my home, my nation, my country and countrymen. I love it still, as broken and dysfunctional as it is, and I have to love it with my heart, not just my mouth. I have to fight for it, in the few ways that I can.
For people who live here, who are citizens but don’t think of this as their nation, who don’t believe in nations, or who have come to despise this nation? I think no less of them for leaving. I don’t blame them in the least. But it’s not me.
Aside from the NBN I’d love to live in OZ. Wanna get married to make immigration easier?
I’m getting closer every fucking day, proportional to how increasingly little I feel like I belong here.
Well, except for your country’s immigration office, who would deny most average Americans the ability to join you.
Yeah, for all the shit people give US immigration laws. They’re some of the lowest requirements of any modern country.
Most everywhere you need a college degree in a sought after field.
Not to mention, the vast majority of Americans can’t even dream of having enough money to afford the move to begin with. The American dream is reasonable rent and affordable debt repayments now.
This is where I am at… Looks like around $20k to move elsewhere in the world, and I’ve got $0 atm.
Cut out the avocado toast and Starbucks! /s
That right there is the part that burns my britches every time a European gives us shit - we take in pretty much anyone, but god forbid any of us want to emigrate to your country!
I don’t think you’re really making any Americans feel bad, we’re pretty good at doing that all by ourselves. Also I’m sure plenty of people would like to leave, they just can’t for a variety of reasons. Money and very strict immigration rules (of other countries) being the top two but they’ve already been mentioned. It’s also very difficult to leave your family and move somewhere where you know virtually no one for a lot of people, even if they meet the previous requirements.
God protected him?
Know who else claimed that? Hitler. And most who asserted the divine right of kings.
But we all know God didn’t step in to prevent the deaths of Jews, mentally disabled (and otherwise institutionalized), political opponents, former political party members who threatened power, LGBTQ+, Rowandans, Armenians, Palestinians, Uyghurs, etc.
That’s why I say if there is super natural intervention, it ain’t God. It’s the devil himself.
We do know how the Republicans will spin this.
Indeed we do. In fact, there’s already merch.
Please tell me this is fake. Pretty please
I really wish it was 😮💨
You don’t understand how surviving assassination attempts energizes your voter base? I feel like there’s a lot of history here you could pull from.
If it’s a “voter base”, wouldn’t they already have voted for him?
Not all the voter base show up to every election, and in US politics traditionally the more people who vote the better Democrats do. Now they have to also overcome a more energized Trump base which means less people on the right suffering from election fatigue from our years long election cycles. A nice big boos of martyrdom with a few months left can go a long way.
Can you name a single elected European leader that people tried to assassinate?
Jo Cox? Unless by “leader”, you specifically mean “head of state”.
Pim Fortuyn ( not an elected leader at that point, but his party won the election in a landslide afterward) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pim_Fortuyn
Olof Palme, tried and succeeded… This has JFK-level conspiracy theories flourishing in Sweden
Hitler.
Homie really forgot about Hitler . . .
Homie knows his history, actually.
Homie doesn’t get that the distinction is meaningless, especially when most European countries don’t elect their heads of government to begin with, and America’s elections are pretty much built to favor the right, because they’re never popular enough to win the popular vote
My point here is that the USA is basically a warlord state dressed up in “first-world” clothes. You all seem to take assassinations in stride while being blissfully unaware of how anomalous this is compared to other countries.
How many burgers after yours?
He was not elected head of state.
I must have missed the ‘elected’ first time I read it, lol
It feels like the only parallel left is that soon we’re going to find out Trump University was created because no other school would let him into their art program
Forget about Mussolini too or . . . ?
He was elected but then abolished elections, so I’m not sure that really counts — the only way to “vote him out” was to kill him. You’re technically right, though.
And of course miss Maggy Thatcher, longest serving in her position too.
Totally forgot about that one, great counterexample!
Geez, why do the worst people survive assassination
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It’s the Emporer Palpatine gambit.
Reichstag fire.
Such an unnecessary scene. The scaring and decrepitness of Palpatine didn’t need explanation. Just say that using the dark side of the force is corrosive, and slowly kills the body.
The same with Vader. It shouldn’t have been due to burns and lightsaber injuries, it should have been due to that same corrosiveness.
No, I disagree. The sith are inherently toxic and self destructive. If they were to only depict the dark side as being a corrosive energy force then it would marginalize the self destructive behavior. Remember the sith were in charge but ultimately destroyed themselves through toxic behavior.
Like trump being convicted of felonies and all his buddies serving time in federal prison
What could be more self destructive than literally ripping the life out of your own body to fuel your power?
Choking your girl
As far as i am aware, outside of a handful of jedi and some of his inner council, nobody knows palpatine is a force user, let alone a sith
It doesn’t matter. He was a Sith and a force user, and after the Jedi were purged, he didn’t have to hide it anymore. He would, at least from the general public, but he was served by Vader, who was openly a Sith. Well, not openly Sith, Vader likely never used the word Sith, but he would use the force to choke a bitch.
But prequels are often hamfisted in their treatment of character growth over a time skip. As in, they can’t have any growth or change at all from the end of the prequel to the start of the first movie, even if there’s 20+ years in between the two.
Such an unnecessary scene
Man this applies to like half the scenes in that movie. George wanted every single piece in the exact place they were at the start of ANH, despite the 20-year gap.
That’s the problem with prequels. They have to set things up, but cannot have any change or character growth, because then they’d fail at being a prequel.
So you have pointless, this is how the thing happened scenes, when no one asked for them.
Okay. rarely you’ll get a prequel that’s good, but those are story driven and often have no effect either way on the later stories except to add a layer of depth.
The Star Wars Prequels, every single one of them, were not that. There was no coherent story in any of them. Just a bunch of “look at the thing” scenes.
I’m thoroughly in the “there are good ideas here, but they were let down by the poor writing and direction” camp with the Star Wars prequels. Telling a story about an idealistic young space wizard turning into an SS officer while the Republic he serves turns into a dictatorship could have been great.
I think Filoni’s The Clone Wars does explore a lot more of those themes, and offers a more compelling, gradual fall for an Anakin who struggles to control his emotions. Unfortunately, it also has entire episodes centered around Jar-Jar Binks, so it can be hard to get into.
It also gives us Darth Maul and Mandalore
Yea… yea.
Europeans need to understand that winning elections in the US really just means convincing 10,000-20,000 people in about 5 states who to vote for a couple days before the election.
If this news plants a small seed of sympathy for Trump in the minds of those undecided voters it will swing the election.
Our democracy is really pretty terribly implemented.
These people never really think about politics and vote because it’s good.
Yeah. I’m really jealous of them. I can’t imagine how nice it must be not to care about this shit.
Or if.more media attention and coverage of trump pushes a few people to vote rather than stay home he loses.
Yes OK but the part we don’t understand is how getting shot at is raising sympathy levels. The natural reaction would be even less get the person involved in politics because he attracts or directly causes extremism, chaos, and violence.
You want a steady hand, not a drama queen as your leader, no?
These are people who are making a decision about something very important with less than 72 hours to go. Do not assume they are acting rationally.
You really can’t understand how people are “being killed for being right”? Like if someone said the monarchy in Europe is bad and kings shouldn’t exist, and then the king does have them killed, that wouldn’t raise sympathy for the cause of the guy being killed, that kings shouldn’t exist?
This is exactly how resistance spreads. People got killed for their beliefs. Other people saw that and thought “if they’re getting killed they are a threat to those in power, and thus likely right”. You don’t think “oh well this guy got killed for his beliefs, that must mean that his opinions are wrong”
Obviously this is not what’s really happening with Trump, but it’s going to be spun like that by his propaganda team, and people are going to believe it.
Ranked. Choice. Voting.
We needs it.
Got my primary pamphlet recently, I was so disappointed to see the non-partisan rcv supportive candidate wasn’t running this year. They nearly won last election, too 😭
There’s tons of things we could do to improve it. But it will take a huge amount of political will that Americans just don’t have.
Yeah. My option is a baindaid but helps clear the murkiness out a bit. Gotta start somewhere as it’ll take a decade or so to get us back to being anything resembling a great nation. Right now we are a fear mongering hegemony war profiteering oligarchy.
Everyone needs to hear this. But most people don’t even know about it.
Didn’t Canadians explicitly reject it?
As much as I think a ranked choice system would be an improvement, I don’t think it solves the underlying problems of Capital’s dominance of all of society’s decision-making institutions and it’s really just something for politics nerds to fixate on that regular people don’t understand or care about.
Vote of no confidence. If both fish suck throw em back and find some new ones.
Literally does nothing in the US system and is the fastest way for the fascist party to complete their takeover.
Anyone advocating for this I’m assuming is either a troll or a paid shill.
Agree to disagree. Even a two party system could see improvement when there is a possibility of failure behind falling in line with ‘least bad choice.’
It’s not a silver bullet - to be sure. but we’re talking about a patient on life support with multiple systems failing. There is no simple fix. We need to deal with each rot and disease locally as aggressively as possible… and be willing to excise anything that is a lost cause. This is triage.
Not once has it worked in modern history.
Care to cite some sources?
To my eye the easiest way to exploit a two party system is to provide both candidates. The act of tossing them aside can give teeth to the vote and demand better quality. I fail to see any obvious drawbacks to this.
If implemented correctly it would not impact good elections and would drastically affect bad ones. Is that not ideal?
Modern history being anything that has happened in the lives of even the oldest person alive.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_presidents_of_the_United_States
https://www.whitehouse.gov/about-the-white-house/presidents/
Where are the third party presidents?
That hasn’t worked with the First Past the Post voting system.
The ability of the populous to reject what is offered is necessary to maintain a balanced system. I’m not exactly certain what you are expressing there but I stand by this belief.
And democrats keep killing grass roots implementation of state wide implementation
Terribly implemented, terribly run, terribly staffed, terrible users…
USA! USA! USA! 🦅🍔🇺🇸
Oh here we go…
FUUHCKKK YEAH!!!
[shoots up at the sky repeatedly with tactical bear arms]
“Bleach blonde, bad built butch body” I think sums up my country as well as any description.
It’s not really a democracy. Public opinion has absolutely no impact on whether something is made law or changed. The overwhelming majority of Americans support legalizing weed and medicare for all but neither goes anywhere.
The US is an oligarchy that pretends to be a democracy to get people fighting culture wars instead of class wars.
The overwhelming majority of Americans support legalizing weed and medicare for all but neither goes anywhere.
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Legalizing weed has made massive strides in the past decade, after some 50 years of drug war.
Hawaii has actually succeeded on both fronts. Also, almost no guns.
Good on Hawaii! Not sarcastic or bitter, legit, good for them. The rest of the states would do well to follow Hawaii’s example.
Unfortunately, I suspect that’s not going to be overnight.
“A majority of Americans continue to say the federal government has a responsibility to make sure all Americans have health care coverage.”
Your own source says so
But let’s add more:
https://www.citizen.org/article/public-support-for-medicare-for-all/
Recent polls indicate that six in ten Americans support Medicare-for-All. In addition, more than 60 percent believe that government is responsible for ensuring health coverage for all Americans. And nearly 70 percent of all voters, including battleground voters, identify health care as an important issue in upcoming elections.
I think they were responding to the “neither goes anywhere” part, not the support part
Federally, neither has gone anywhere though.
The only reason the first one is true because it’s something the states can actually do. Not sure if any states have been trying to make a healthcare plan but I imagine that’s a lot harder to do then just saying weed is legal now. Basically right now stuff only gets done at a state level in America anymore with how divided and unproductive Congress is.
Massachusetts has had a very effective single payer healthcare system for decades.
MA is basically the equivalent of a northern European country hiding in the US. Honestly, it’d pretty much be an oasis, save for the fact nobody can actually afford to live there.
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Duopoly. Where both big businesses collude to maintain the market shares between them. DNC & RNC.
It absolutely is a democracy, just an extremely flawed democracy. If democracy were a scale from direct democracy to North Korea, then the USA would sit somewhere in the top third of countries.
Right, it’s a Republic with piss poor representation by rich white guys who answer to the billionaire class.
Excuse me, that’s a representative oligarchy
if its not from the bribery region of france then its just sparkling corruption
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Never seen truer words on the internet.
In America, getting shot gives one “street cred”, which is invaluable when winning over the confidence of young voters.
How much is one street cred in channel points?
I choose to believe this 😄
Finally, all those 18 yr olds in American high schools can say “Hey he got shot at just like me!”
Lol j/k they didn’t survive
If this is actually true, the only possible explanation has to be that the average potential voter in the United States seems to find that an entire apparatus of government nerds running the government is BO-rinnnggg! Yawn.
It can only be because they demand their reality television drama everywhere, with its’ gaudy characters and situations. They want to be mesmerized or they won’t lift their lazy asses from the screen, with their car chases, and explosions.
Let me put things in German terms for you, this is like Alice Weidel and Olaf Scholz running against each other in a close election for Chancellor, where Weidal is the batshit crazy candidate that spews conspiracy theories and Scholz is the sane guy that nobody likes but is better than the alternative. While Weidal is doing a rally for her campaign, some neo nazi, perhaps even further right than she is, attempts to assassinate her for whatever reason. Despite Scholz having nothing to do with the incident, Weidal and the entire Afd crowd start blaming him for it because of the conspiracy theories that she, her party, and her supporters spew and believe. That’s how you get our current situation.
Even though I knew the context, I’m kinda scared that might happen here too (we don’t have that much guns here, but people have ways…). Just remember what happened to Shinzo Abe in Japan, where gun laws are very strict and the shooter just went and built a blunderbuss.
Whatever the reasons of that certain shooter, it’s plausible that some ultra-right nutjob would want to kill Weidel because of her being “not extreme enough” or her homosexuality (that’s a fact, btw.) and accidentially make her a martyr.
Germany and France in particular are worrying cases when it comes to Europe because the have a sizable far left and far right that can be unhinged at times. What’s worse is that there a good amount of whackos that are even further left than the fringe far left Marxist parties and the fringe neo Nazi parties.
In the case of Germany, it’s pretty plausible that some infinitely far right neo Nazi would try assassinate her because she’s a lesbian or some infinitely far left Marxist would try the same because she’s the leader of the Afd or perhaps some crazy jihadist would try to assassinate her because she’s both a woman and a lesbian.
I hope Europe in general tries to keep the lunatics out of power and continue to have pragmatic people rule. I don’t want Europe to go through what we’re going through with the Republicans right now. The end result would be something like Hungary with Orban, and nobody wants that.
some infinitely far left Marxist
Which German Marxist is enjoying the kind of support matched by the AfD?
At the moment? None, but East Germany used to be a part of the eastern bloc, and there’s still an uncomfortable amount of far left whackos that want that era back. They’re not as popular as Afd right now because the big issue in the country at the moment is immigration, and Afd’s platform is more much more hardline on that which is more appealing to the whackos than what the far left is offering.
East Germany used to be a part of the eastern bloc, and there’s still an uncomfortable amount of far left whackos that want that era back
East Germany is the base of the AfD, precisely because post-unification Germany did such a good job of blaming the far-left for the country’s economic problems. Past that, I’m not even sure what constitutes “uncomfortable amounts”, as it seems any number higher than zero gets blamed every time Olaf’s (Not Particularly) Green Party tumbles in the polls.
Are you thinking of the Antideutsche movement? Because that camp has support numbers in the high hundreds on a good day. AfD will have more seats in Parliament than Antideutsche can turn out to a street protest by the next election cycle.
No, I’m talking about the actual far left. The Afd has more momentum atm, but there has always been presence of both the far right and far left in East Germany. Here’s some bits of an interesting article from September 2023 by Bloomberg that demonstrates what I’m talking about:
A fifth of German voters would consider backing a new party that may be established by a far-left politician who has opposed weapons deliveries to Ukraine, according to a poll published Monday.
Sahra Wagenknecht of the Left party — which traces its roots to East Germany’s communist party — has said she will make a decision on whether to set up a breakaway group by the end of this year.
Wagenknecht’s move is potentially significant, since she could potentially woo voters away from the far-right Alternative for Germany, which is leading in the polls in the three eastern German regions due to hold elections next fall.
Among AfD voters, 29% said they could contemplate backing Wagenknecht, compared with 55% of Left voters, according to the Sept. 15-20 YouGov poll of 2,134 people. At 29%, potential support for Wagenknecht is higher in eastern Germany than in the west, where it’s at 19%, the poll showed.
That’s quite a bit of overlap. The far left isn’t exactly dead in East Germany as you seem to describe it, and neither is the far right. They work in tandum alongside jihadists to keep normal Germans up at night. That’s why Germans constantly protest extremism and vote in guys like Scholz.
Scholz is the sane guy that nobody likes but is better than the alternative
The question you have to ask yourself is how a guy nobody likes keeps becoming the uncontested nominee for majority leader.
Keir Starmer, Olaf Schultz, and Emanuel Macron all have this uncanny ability to be the “pick me or your country has a little fascist accident” candidate.
Meanwhile, actual popular candidates are rendered “unelectable” by hostile media, enormous private ad campaigns, and dirty partisan tricks.
Because the a bunch of billionaires of VW, Uniper and Siemens donated $1 billion to Scholzs campaign and told him he better run.
I’m not too tuned in into European politics outside of specific areas, but my understanding is that people generally gravitate towards the boring moderate types because they tend to be the most safe and pragmatic option. The choice becomes a no brainer when the alternative is indeed fascistic. It’s kind of like how we ended up with Biden. During the Democratic primaries, guys like Bernie or Yang had a more populist appeal. However, Biden was seen as the moderate with the wide appeal because he was safe, boring, pragmatic, experienced, etc even though nobody really had him as their initial first choice. When he won the nomination and the general election came down to him and Trump, everybody flocked to Biden because Trump is batshit crazy.
People don’t gravitate to boring and “safe”, they’re pushed there. How come fascists can go as wild as they want but no one can go wild for free healthcare, free education, and free shelter? There is clearly more at play here and it’s obvious from the low approval ratings all these shitty politicians receive.
You are quite literally a genocide supporter. You support Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. I remember you from that other post about Ukraine where you were all of over the thread simping for Putin, blaming the US for the invasion, and calling the 2014 revolution in Ukraine a US orchestrated coup. You’re in no position to call out fascists when you’re one yourself.
For anybody who’s curious, I highly recommend you read his comments on that read. This guy is nuts. Here is the link:
Man this is RICH coming from you who has spouted Israeli ethnonationalist & Palestinian-genocide-denying rhetoric on this site. I was there for multiple instances of it. I’m not normally so direct with my comments about users I’m familar with (it can get real toxic real quick), and I think NATO is necessary and all and I’m against the Russian occupation of Ukraine, but your comment attacking hark is so laughably hypocritical that I can’t help it.
Please do some self-reflection before attacking and trying to discredit a user claiming they’re a “genocide supporter” based on their opinion of Ukraine, when you’ve been much more verifiably pro-genocide. Unless you’ve shifted your opinion since the last time I’ve seen such comments, those seem far more genocide-friendly considering Palestinian casualties (mostly civilian) are multiple times the number of Israeli casualties (mostly soldiers), compared to the war in Ukraine where the Russians have actually taken signficiantly more casualties than Ukrainians and don’t primarily target civilians (compared to Israel which primarily targets civilians to terrorize the population). It’s not a stretch to say that Putin wants to Russify Ukraine further and destroy their culture, and that Russia has terrorized Ukrainians a lot, but to act as if a Ukrainian genocide is happening (to then use that to claim attacks on the Ukrainian government are pro-genocide) is disingenuous.
Where in any of that did I support Russia’s invasion of Ukraine? Where did I “simp” for Putin? You saw me say that maybe the official US line isn’t the entire story and your brain short-circuited to fill in all these bullshit and gross accusations you’re making of me.
I also recommend others read my comments and I mean actually read them, unlike SleezyDizasta over here, because you’ll find that SleezyDizasta has been making things up about me. As for the 2014 coup in Ukraine, it sure is interesting that John McCain was addressing protestors at the time. Why would such a prominent politician be so invested in another country’s opposition to their government? You tell me.
also when did genocide become “boring and safe”
A lot of Democrats are wealthy suburban types. They want to support social freedoms, but they don’t want their taxes to go up.
everybody flocked to Biden because Trump is batshit crazy.
this is kind of an overstatement though, right?
fascism is pretty popular rn.
It’s really not. Let’s go through some basic stats:
- There are 330 million Americans
- There are 258 million adults
- There are 161 million registered voters
- Of those, less than 1/2 vote in midterms and less than 2/3 vote in presidential elections
- Of those, only around half vote Republican and that includes independents
If we include the Republican leaning independents, that number comes out to around 40 million to 50 million people depending on the election cycle. That’s 12-15% of all Americans, 15-19% of all adults, 24-31% of registered voters, and around 50% of active voters. Keep in mind, this includes independents, if we only includes partisan identified Republicans, all these percentages would be lower. Keep in mind, this includes the very small minority of reasonable Republicans like Adam Kinzinger or Mitt Romney.
The reality is that the Trump and his brand of fascism is pretty unpopular. People mistakenly think that the country is split 50/50, but that’s not true. While most people dislike both Trump and Biden, the amount of people who actively like either is very small. But that’s how far right and far left movements gain power, not through popularity but through technicalities, violence, and the zealously of a propaganda fueled base of supporters. This is why it is so important to try and get people who are usually disconnected with politics to tune in and vote against these extremists.
Why is this down voted so heavily? These seems pretty correct to me. People on here dont realize how many people are disconnected from it all.
if 40 to 50 million people watched some series you can say its pretty popular. its more than enough to build fascism, thats for sure.
Yeah but thats quite different from bread and butter. That 40 to 50 million is like 1/14th of the country. Doesn’t seem like much in that context. Definitely not a majority.
Probably the mild centrist bent to the comment I’d imagine, and also the fact that it’s in response to a comment saying fascism is pretty popular, saying that it’s not. People like their persecution complexes.
I find it odd that the three candidates you mentioned were all elected. What’s your point again?
Initially we didn’t know that the shooter was Republican.
More over though I see a lot of people discussing stats for voters based off of 2020 but I really don’t think that’s a good year to base it on given that the covid lockdowns were taking place. A lot of people had nothing better to do and actually paid attention to politics. A lot of people were miserable, partly because of Trump’s awful handling of covid but also just the fact that we were going to be miserable anyways.
All we really know at the end of the day is that Trump feeds off a lot of occurrences like this and it’s worrisome. Many people are more anxious for their futures than ever before right now.
The media is owned by Trump supporters.
*Some media. You have to understand, that media is just political propaganda (from one or the other side). Why else would anyone even fund them (they are sponsored by ads and promoted content)?
Why else would anyone even fund them (they are sponsored by ads and promoted content)?
Apparently you’ve never heard of marketing and don’t understand it’s value.
No it’s literally all of them in the US at least.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1354571X.2021.1950340
ABSTRACT
Between 4 November 1925 and 31 October 1926, Tito Zaniboni, Violet Gibson, Gino Lucetti, and Anteo Zamboni all tried and failed to kill Benito Mussolini. The significance of these attempts on Mussolini’s life and their relationship to the establishment of Fascism has gone overlooked as much scholarship focuses almost exclusively on the consequences of socialist deputy Giacomo Matteotti’s murder in June 1924. In this article, I analyse the impact that these assassination attempts had on Mussolini’s construction of the Fascist state. The article asks two main questions: What role did these assassins, and the state of emergency that their acts generated, play in the establishment of Fascist control? And how did they contribute to Mussolini’s cult status and his consecration as a ‘man of providence’? I argue that the failed assassination attempts were instrumental in allowing the Fascist regime to create a state of emergency and to capitalize on a fabricated demand for crisis management. These attempts fundamentally structured the conditions for the regime’s consolidation of power, including a vast expansion of laws that dismantled the liberal state and established the Fascist dictatorship.
Why is everyone so weird and extreme?! I just wanna dance and eat the good drugs and touch pretty girls yo.
Consensually, I hope.
Yeah, I can be as visually impressive as I want but still be hanging around like Tantalus in a world where it seems like every girl just wants money for sex. I don’t cross any lines. I just want.
it’s less fun if they’re not into it
It’s like zero fun.
Those good drugs deserved it for acting like little sluts
Dancing is gay.
Drug use makes you a far-left psycho Communist who hates America
Touching pretty girls means you have cooties.
I’m willing to undergo all three of those sacrifices.
Kk, them I’m gay cootie communist.
Gay cootie commie gang gang
How do you feel about robots and space?
I loooove space!
