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[–] xmunk 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Hey, if you Americans want to judged by the standard of Joe Arpaio you can judge the majority of Isrealis by this shitheel.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

It isn’t just this guy (and wasn’t just Arpaio,) though.

The government- of both countries- reflect its people; at least in part. It’s certainly fair to say that Israelis put Likud into power; and it’s also fair to say Americans put bush into power. (Though not necessarily. I don’t think we still really know wtf happened in Florida)

This guy was elected by whatever area he represents. They voted for that.

Voting matters, and collectively, we have a responsibility for what our elected leaders do.

[–] xmunk 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

We certainly do, but we're not voting on a single issue and a lot of voters are extremely uninformed or misinformed. There are a number of absolutely fucking atrocious Isrealis, and a number of abhorrent Americans... but there are a lot more that voted for Bush for economic reasons or because they had some mistaken impression of him - I don't know if you remember this but W actually had a great sense of humor and that appealed to some people.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

Doesn’t really matter why one voted for [that guy]… they still voted for [thst guy], and collectively we put [that guy] into power; collectively, we’re responsible for putting [that guy who is an asshole] into power- saying one only voted so because [something irrelevant] is a large part of the problem.