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We’re letting Trump distract us from his corrupt, anti-climate agenda | There is a strange, substantive vacuum in this campaign cycle. (www.washingtonpost.com)
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[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Distract you with what? He isn't doing any of this in the shadows, he's saying it loud and clear: he will ruin the climate, ruin ukraine and the US democratic process; all for personal gain.

And ~50% of americans are shouting: fuck yeah

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I want to push back on the 50% figure. Most Americans don't even vote. Maybe 50% of "voters" say fuck yeah, but even that isn't accurate since he didn't even win the popular vote.

I think it's easy to get depressed about humanity when you start believing that half of the world is ok with Trump. The reality is that most of the world is NOT happy with him as an option, and even most of America is sick of him. Die hard trumpers are definitely a minority in the US, but they're very loud and enough rich people boost those voices.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

Youre totally correct. I meant the other "voting half" but of course it's only half because it's been split that way, and doesn't mean half the number of people voting.

I get depressed about the US because it's "the half that matters" in the current political meta. They are a minority, they are loud but they are gaining ground because it's easy for politicians to use them to enrich themselves and control people.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

'I want to push back on the 50% figure. Most Americans don't even vote. Maybe 50% of "voters" say fuck yeah, but even that isn't accurate since he didn't even win the popular vote.'

Semantics. If he gets in the rest of the world will associate Americans with him. Because he won the election. The fact that he manipulated, rigged, coerced or whatever is neither here nor there.
It's the same way that we tend to associate all Russians with Putin, Chinese with Xi and the British with whoever is in the seat this week.
Just over 50% (of the people that voted) were in favour of Brexit but now that label and it's repercussions are associated with all of us. If everyone that didn't want it had voted, we'd still be in the EU.

This is why it's so important to vote.

And to have honest and accountable politicians, although I may have stepped into fantasy here.