• Uriel238 [all pronouns]@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    2 days ago

    We learned in Trump 1.0 that he is extremely isolationist and wants to cut the US off from the world like it’s North Korea.

    The way an abusive spouse cuts their partner off from all other social contacts.

    The way FOX News encourages its viewership to stop watching all other media sources so they’re in an information silo.

    And the US voted for him again, because we vote based on vibes and bigotry. Because we have forgotten our civic duty to vote responsibly. Because we are suckers for lying confidence men who make ridiculous promises.

    So the US is due for more than a bit of harsh finding out. We should have learned after George W. Bush. We didn’t and FA’d. (Effed A?)

    Anyhow a lot of Americans have cut off their MAGA relatives and neighbors. It is no surprise at all that Canada — and the entire international community — might do the same.

    I’m skeptical the US is going to survive to the November election, much less the new Congress in January.

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      1 day ago

      Also the US voting system disenfranchises minorites disproportionately and uses the electoral college, which is anti-democratic (i.e., non swing state district votes affect nothing)… So it’s not simply a matter of shitty voter choices. Those happened in coordination with other shit.