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[–] nibble4bits@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 day ago

Don't blame me, I didn't vote for that orange shit stain.

[–] henfredemars@infosec.pub 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It’s unpopular with those living in the US as well.

[–] MummifiedClient5000@feddit.dk 2 points 2 days ago (3 children)
[–] xtr0n@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

We’re pretty dumb and ignorant. Our education system is awful and incredibly inequitable (funded by local property tax so only nice areas have adequately funded schools). I recently read that like half the country reads below a 6th grade level. And we have an overwhelming level of right wing disinformation coming from “news” outlets like FOX, OAN, etc.

Even with all that, about 1/3 of the country loves Trump like he’s a god, 1/3 hates him like he’s the devil and 1/3 is completely tuned out of politics. Shit is about to get real bad here and no one will be able to ignore the economic disaster so I think those numbers will change in the next few months.

[–] lemmyseikai@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Half of adults reat at or below the 6th grade level.

That doesn't mean they don't have an expansive vocabulary, it means they can infer but not abstract.

So, it's bad if my daughter suffers they may ibfer from their own suffering, but women in general and possibly ways their daughter may suffer elude them.

[–] mrslt@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

I mean... As an American, that's certainly a valid question. The short answer is that the modern American political two-party system has become the biggest shitshow in American history. For a longer explanation, I saw a video on a Canadian PeerTube instance that really explains the situation better than I could.

Here you go.

[–] mean_bean279@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)
  • voter apathy
  • he didn’t win by as many votes as the largest election against him (2020)
  • he was never popular among all people, but is among voting people
  • electoral college doesn’t make sense

We have a broken election system here in the states, but not a popular president.

[–] kreskin@lemmy.world 0 points 2 days ago (2 children)

And what passes for the lefty party ran with genocide on their back and couldnt pull that off.

[–] PanArab@lemm.ee 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The Democratic Party is at best center-right but with their enablement of genocide and crack down on protesters they are probably just as fascist as Republicans.

[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

continuing to claim this in the face of what's currently occurring in the US is not simply naive, it's downright idiotic

[–] PanArab@lemm.ee 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Is it because some people are more equal than others?

[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 1 points 1 day ago

Tf are you on about?

[–] Dead_or_Alive@lemmy.world 0 points 2 days ago

And the voters who support Palestine sure did a good job keeping the worst of two options out.

Ohhh well, at this rate the Palestinian question, likely won’t be an issue next election.

[–] SpikesOtherDog@ani.social 3 points 2 days ago

I hate living in the headlines of Plague Inc.

[–] blakenong@lemmings.world 0 points 2 days ago (2 children)

How the fuck is Russia going UP?

[–] PanArab@lemm.ee 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Europe and North America are only 13% of the world population. Most of the rest of the world view the war in Ukraine differently, and are more concerned with wars elsewhere like in Palestine where the West is “the bad guy”.

[–] blakenong@lemmings.world 1 points 1 day ago

Yes it certainly does seem that no one cares about any other thing than crushing the west at the moment. Which won’t save any of the Muslims in China! It will not save anyone in Pakistan. There are actually several other decades long genocides going on at the moment but if you ask anybody they have no idea.

[–] cm0002@lemmy.world -3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Tankies aren't spreading their crap for nothing lol

[–] blakenong@lemmings.world -1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Ehh, good point. Humorously, a lot of those Tankies are Yankees. Which I will never understand. Setting fire to your own house to please your neighbor who doesn’t give a shit about you?

Let’s coin a new word. YankTank? TankYank?

[–] hildegarde@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 2 days ago (1 children)

yankies? as opposed to yankees

[–] blakenong@lemmings.world 0 points 2 days ago (1 children)

That does make the most sense but I feel you’d be fending off people trying to correct your spelling. YankieTank? It needs to be obvious on first glance.

[–] SolarMonkey@slrpnk.net 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

TankieYankie sounds extra mocking..?

[–] blakenong@lemmings.world 1 points 1 day ago

TankieYanking? Hehehe

[–] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 0 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Uh... The US has been globally unpopular for as long as I've been alive.

[–] Merva@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago

Yes, but not as much as they are now. That really says something.