Comment by infinitezest

Comment by infinitezest a day ago

11 replies

It must be nice to live somewhere that has politicians that represent the will of the people enough to have a take like this. Where I live, your vote only counts if you have enough money.

vkou a day ago

You're asking for a monkey's paw.

The current ruling party in the US has given its voters exactly what they think they wanted, and it's a fucking disaster.

  • al_borland 14 hours ago

    My day-to-day life has never been impacted by who is in the White House. Where is the disaster?

    • op00to 11 hours ago

      My peaceful, law abiding neighbors were taken away by ICE thugs in a totally unnecessary military style raid in my upper-middle-class suburb. Absolutely no due process. Their autistic, profoundly disabled child was left alone, scared and unable to understand what was happening. After over a month of detention, the neighbors were released. Turns out they weren’t so dangerous after all.

      This, to me, is a fucking disaster.

    • mlrtime 11 hours ago

      I saw this all the time to people. What happens in the white house doesn't affect people nearly as much as what happens locally, but its a 'disaster'?

    • goatlover 11 hours ago

      What a completely selfish and myopic view of politics. Do you not watch the news? Also a very bad reading of history, thinking all those bad things like 1930s Germany can't happen here when enough people let it happen.

    • ergonaught 9 hours ago

      Yes yes, it's only a problem if it affects you.

      Utterly tedious.

    • immibis 5 hours ago

      Not Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, Ukraine, Palestine, the actual German Holocaust, or anything else, that's for sure, right? My life was never impacted by any of those.

  • 978689757846 11 hours ago

    I take it you consume BBC "content"?

    • goatlover 11 hours ago

      Is the BBC the only news media organization reporting negatively on the current US administration?

  • pessimizer 21 hours ago

    Because no matter who they vote for, they get this. The previous ruling party hasn't had a real primary since 2008 (and didn't even go through the motions in 2024.) H. Clinton makes a fairly good case that even that one was fixed (because they knew the best horse to bet on.)

    No matter who you vote for you get Hillary Clinton's governance, though. She's become very complimentary about Trump's foreign policy.