where_am_i @ where_am_i @sh.itjust.works

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Explain these numbers to me please: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/us/elections/polls-president.html

Because, what I see, is that, ignoring your stupid broken democracy, we still got like a 46/49 split (5% undecided?)

So, are you delusional, or are you delusional?

What do you do in a democracy where say, for the sake of the argument, exactly 50% of your population is racist?

As in, 50% of your population believes skin color does not matter, the other 50% believe if you're darker than a certain shade, your brain is that of a baboon, and as an unsuitable human being you should be kept outside of the country borders.

What do you do?

Now, you're in the same situation, but the split is 60/40. Will you use your majority power to exterminate the other 40?

So far all you do is gather on some corner of the internet and cry in each others shoulder. Every fuckin day. On every fuckin sub.

This platform was created as some "Fediverse". Something big and all-encompassing. Flying above individual organizations, nations, languages, etc. But all it is atm is an emotional support corner for the non-racist americans.

Yes, I'm familiar with that part of your legislation.

Approximately everyone else here except for you sees AfD as a target for banning because "they're radical far right". No, sorry, bad idea.

Even banning an anti-democracy party at first might be a bad idea. Better go figure out why is anyone voting for them.

Banning an anti-democracy party is an absolute last-resort measure. It only exists in Germany because this is how Hitler came to power, so the idea is to prevent that scenario from repeating. I can see the point, however it is yet to be proven that such bans would actually help preserve the democratic order.

Oh yeah, that last implication certainly is full of polite implying. I'm honored.

You know what I see? Someone who's afraid that their world order will change. And their solution is "lock them up while we're in the majority".

You know what I also see? A failed German re-unification, extreme arrogance of the west Germans towards east Germans, a bouquet of additional socio-economical problems that have been ignored for decades. And a consequent voters' revolt.

And their solution? Tell all those angry people that they're nazi and their problems will continue being ignored. I'm sure that will solve it.

The party in question, AfD, is fuckin scary. They, in fact, are openly nazi. And, yet, I promise you, banning them and continuing to ignore the underlying issues will only make things worse.

-- Your Polite But Malicious Kremlin Bot

You do nothing else but kick back and watch some political comedy. And it doesn't look like fun anymore. At this point lemmy is an emotional support club.

Other than that, I feel you. After I've learned that trump got 48% or so of the popular vote (which also somehow won him the election), I've forever dropped my plans to move to your beautiful country. Even if career-wise it's a no-brainer. Tbh, even 40% of the popular vote to that political figure would've been too much for my liking.

https://youtu.be/6ErTgfoHVWg

posted this vid into this community. Let's see what happens. But, FYI, the video runs exactly like the one posted here.

I, unfortunately, even think the jokes are pretty funny.

I understand in both cases it's quotes takes out of context.

That, actually, seems like a fun exercise. I'll get downvoted to hell, but lemme do a bit of fun.

You are conflating your love for your echo chamber with me wanting a different echo chamber.

Yes, lemme block Videos@lemmy.world, Pictures@lemmy.world, Memes@lemmy.world, actually, anything lemme just block @, cuz I don't see any other way out of this.

It's easier to whitelist 3 active communities than selectively block anything. Those would be a german meme community, a europe community, and a world-news community. Everywhere else top upvotes posts are "trump bad".

I've been blocking US-news infestation in all subs for like a month now. I keep having 10% of my "All" tab filled with "trump bad" posts that have a 100/1 upvote ratio. I already blocked the guy who posted this vid. Before even commenting.

Dunno, gimme a name of your reputable news sources. I'ma take a look.

Cuz the video in question is as biased as fox news. Just into the opposite direction.

It's hard for me, personally, to watch it, even though I do believe it's insane to vote for Trump. And yet the video is just repeatable cringe. It ads nothing to the political debate, and given that this particular show does pretty much the same material every week I'm not sure how isn't everyone yet bored of watching it?

You love misinterpreting facts into your favor, don't you?

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/us/elections/polls-president.html

I feared that would be the answer. I'd go on a vacation to Paris with my "guardian" and poison him there.

oh, yes, i have. On the shitposting community out of all places.

ah, ok, tell me please, what exactly do you see right through? I wanna know. For research purposes. (And to report it to the headquarters, so we could improve our sabotage operation).

You can only ban them if they seriously threaten the democratic order. Which some of their members might claim to want to do, but so far the whole party hasn't shown much of action in the direction.

If you do ban your political opponents because "now they need to reorganize and won't get money". You will only strengthen their point that the current democratic order cannot be trusted and that their voters are ignored by the system. You will turn 10% of hardcore voters and 20% of rebel voters into 30% hardcore voters.

And then good luck to you with having any democracy whatsoever. Or do you plan to maybe institute a special democratic police and jail everyone with antidemocratic views? What about jailing some 30% of a certain region of your country? How do you imagine this will go down?

While our regulations and social security make us the most desirable immigration destination.

We should focus more on investing in technology, but that doesn't mean that we need to deregulate to allow uber/amazon type of companies to grow here. They're not a public benefit.

Just like their european friends. Or, I mean, they'd wish they could.

Signal just somehow forgets to store your IP address. So, their response will be "here are our logs, that phone number last time logged in yesterday, that's all we got"

https://signal.org/bigbrother/northern-california-order/

The holy spirit help you with your servers that run on windows.

I'd also suppose this update won't affect you, cuz you're hopefully not running latest win11 on a server.