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America: Getting ready for another election. Rest of the world: (lemmy.ca)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Most of us are right there with you. What's most important though is that most of us in like 4 swing states are also right there with you.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Prolly even like in some red states as well.

The American election system has so many flaws, that I am surprised that no politician cares enough for that to change.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 11 months ago

Things work really well here for you if you're amoral and wealthy. So like 99% of elected officials.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I saw a video of republicans outraged because someone was apparently trying to change the voting system to use ranked voting, and this would destroy the two-party system (yt link) which apparently would be a horrible thing to happen

Strange that they worship the founding fathers so much and insist that the system they put in place is perfect and must never be changed when John Adams wrote (google books link):

There is nothing which I dread so much as a division of the republic into two great parties, each arranged under its leader, and concerting measures in opposition to each other. This, in my humble apprehension, is to be dreaded as the greatest political evil under our Constitution.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

lets hope they dont get distracted with the economy or some other shit

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Did you know that Biden is like three and a half years older than Trump? I mean. What were his parents thinking?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Biden? Hah, he can barely string together a coherent sentence! Trump? Uh... USA! USA! USA!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Yeah sure. His speeches must be AI generated or he's already replaced by an android then. Yeah I know what a teleprompter is but he obviously doesn't read off of them in most of his speeches.

https://youtu.be/tyLbudG8Z_w https://youtu.be/b1ukaC9cSKQ https://www.youtube.com/live/7qhw0htNtzQ

What's not coherent about those speeches? Compared to Trump it's day and night.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago

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