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Sorry guys, I'm locking it. It's turning into an international politics thread and I don't have the bandwidth to watch it.

Oh but they believe it's the LGBTQ community that is destroying the democracy, not a fascist dictator and his billionaire cocksuckers

We as a society love solving problems when it's a crisis. It's exciting watching people solve the problems when it's a crisis. It's boring watching people solve problems before getting to a crisis point.

Baseball catches are really great example of this. Watch any clip of "Great catches", it's someone running, diving to catch the ball. Those aren't great catches, the player fucked up reading the play. A great catch is when the player is under the ball standing waiting for the ball to land in their glove. That's boring, so we don't get clip shows of it.

It's the same when it comes to society crisis. We want our leaders to be seen solving the crisis, not preventing it from happening.

Starting to really believe in this "Elon used SpaceX Technology to hack voting machines" theory that Donald Trump keeps alluding to.

Because memes aren't journalism:

The survey in question.

Sample 1106 U.S. adult citizens Conducted February 3-6, 2025 MarginofError ±4.2%

Americans have been told there is a crisis every fucking presidency for decades. Every election is the most important. Everything is a cultural fight. The president declares some form of emergency every fucking year to disallow certain laws to trigger since the early 90s. And we've seen how the electoral college steals elections.

Fuck the whole system.

23% of the country voted for Trump

I feel like some of those who agree honestly believe trump will fix it. Like even if you dont believe it there are 100s of thousand of americans who believe crazy conspiracies like Qanon. I think instead of calling them idiots or brushing them off we need to face this and figure this shit out. No more letting them grow and fester.

Turtle Island has been in crisis since the Europeans arrived. The terrorism has not stopped, and has only gotten worse.

40% of them didn't vote.

I forget where I heard this take but it was describing trump's first election. The broader electorate knew it would be chaotic, that was almost the point. Everyone can tell that the status quo is bad, that things are getting worse for most people. When the options are 'more of the same that isn't working' and 'throw a grenade at it and see what happens' people chose the grenade. Low information voters don't care about Gaza, millions of voters couldn't even tell you what region it's in.

All they knew is that inflation was making everything unaffordable and their pay certainly didn't keep up. Did they correctly assign blame for the economic conditions? Of course not. But when your main basis for voting is just the general vibe and the vibe is bad then you either vote for the other guy or stay home. So yes, people do prefer crisis to stability when stability just means things continue to get worse at a steady pace.

The Trump voters replied that we’re in a constitutional crisis because they believed we were (and still are) in one from the Biden administration. They believe Trump hasn’t fixed the crisis yet.

Didn't trump win with about 27% of the population voting for him?

More importantly, with how this exact thing happened once 4yrs ago, how did the Democrats do nothing to add checks and balances for the abuses of power he so freely showed he was willing to commit last time? Not one law limiting executive orders, or codifying protections for positions the president chooses. So many additional steps they could have taken to curb the reach of the president, and they instead sat on their hands while the supreme court expanded the powers of the presidency to those damn near an emperor. Nearest we've ever been.