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What is wrong with Americans? Why do they tolerate this?
For an intolerant people, they're surprisingly tolerant of their own abuse.
We don't, but nothing we do matters, so it happens anyway
That's actually a lot of crazy shit going on right now that the media keeps ignoring.
https://warehousefire.watch/
It is mattering.
i'm just a temporarily embarrassed billionaire when i get rich i don't want to pay taxes
It kind of looks like their politicians don't give a crap what the little people think. Likely money involved, I'd wager.
As an American, I think about this graph way too often:
Basically, yeah. Ideally, as public support rises, the pass rate would also rise. And inversely, as support drops, the pass rate would also drop. That flat ~30% pass rate regardless of public support means that the bottom 90% literally isn’t represented at all. Their needs and wishes literally are not factored into the bill’s chances of passing at all. Meanwhile, the wealthy have an extreme amount of influence on whether or not a bill will pass.
It's what they voted for. Leopards are getting full of faces all across America.
Can confirm I certainly did not vote for this shit
Because any public attempt of resistance is going to be met with violence. Our government has stated they plan to conduct drone warfare on us. Don't get me wrong, personally I know what happens when there's no resistance (they'll just kill you anyway) but for the majority it's usually a combination of distance (this place is huge), poverty and not wanting to be canon fodder for something they likely had nothing to do with.
Remember guys, the US is 3000 miles wide. That's 3 days of straight driving one side to the other. 5 if you sleep.
BUT whilst Tahoe is 5 days away from the capital of the country, it's only 3 hours from the capital of California. Also let's not forget Lake Tahoe is the land of the lesser rich. Even a shack is worth 3 mil up there
Yeah, there are lots of memes about Europeans coming to visit America, and expecting to be able to visit New York, Seattle, the Grand Canyon, and Los Angeles in a single week. Because in Europe, you can literally just pop over to France for lunch, because it’s only like 45 minutes away. I drive 45 minutes to work every single day, in each direction.
It’s always a little bit funny (and a little bit sad) seeing a European posting about “why Americans haven’t lit the White House on fire yet?” It’s because 90% of Americans would need to drive for like a week just to reach the capitol. And even then, you’d only get the privileged few who were able to schedule time off of work for it.
This means American protests tend to be very localized. Maybe Dallas has a protest in Texas, but that is easily ignored by federal lawmakers because Dallas is like 1300 miles away. Hell, even state lawmakers won’t care about a protest in Dallas, because Dallas is like 200 miles away from its own state capitol.
have you seen who they vote for? this is what they want
thanks for letting us know you have absolutely no understanding of the american election system.
confidently, too.
If the voting system trends towards two bad options which both get worse every year, how much does their vote reflect what they really want?
If they choose the worst option it's a signal they want to keep moving in that direction!
Only a tiny portion of people are actually psychopaths who would knowingly choose the worst option for everyone.
It’s not that tiny, it’s at least 27%.
Lunch Discussions #145: The Crazification Factor
And thanks to gerrymandering that minority gets it's way half the time
I don't care how good someone thinks they are - eventually they will fall to temptation and fail to resist the bad incentives placed on them by a system.
If a government is elected under a winner-take-all (first-past-the-post) voting system then there is no incentive to change that system to solve gerrymandering (also the spoiler effect and misrepresentation error). I hope it is possible for an newly elected party to quickly implement a representative voting system after winning on an unrepresentative one.
Bingo. Voting for the lesser evil is still voting for evil.
Fuck that and not voting at all is voting for the popular evil then.
From their perspective voting 3rd party has the same result as not voting at all - that's an issue which main parties do not offer to solve.
There's always more than 2 choices.
In Europe where there is a proper parlement getting your fave party to patlement is valid. In the two party system of US voting for the lesser most popular monster is the way to keep the worst monster out of the whitehouse, you can still do other political action to pursue YOUR ideals.
But it's not a 2 party system by design. It's just that the major parties have convinced enough sheep that it is.
We don't have any actual representative democracy, due to all our extreme mobility. Cars have killed us. I've lived in so many of the U.S. States and it's just crashingly laughingly suck.
Too busy scrolling social media filled with rage bait and propaganda
We deserve this.
the kids deserve this too I guess? and everyone that is protesting? do the innocents chucked in the back of ICE vans deserve it as well?
speak for yourself.