Comment on YSK that Gerrymandering allows politicians to choose their own voters. In many countries, it's illegal. Gerrymandering is common in the United States

• buttnugget@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Fragile Europeans: Americans are children who need a babysitter

  Also fragile Europeans: a couple brown people arrive welp, back to the 1930s

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  • iglou@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Congrats, you have written the dumbest take I’ve read today

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  • ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    At least in the UK, Germany and France, certainly. Although, tbf, Americans are their own kind of unreasonable, fearful and violent. Western Europe is America-lite.

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• merc@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  The US is failing more rapidly than other countries. But, it should be seen as an opportunity to look at your own country and think “ok, how would a morally bankrupt party exploit this thing that just used to be a tradition or a norm, and exploit it because there’s no actual rule?”

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  • ThunderclapSasquatch@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    We really aren’t we just have a spotlight on us and third parties deliberately making it look bigger and worse

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