• jettrscga@lemmy.world
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    24 days ago

    They didn’t look at that. This is the frustrating truth we have to come to terms with. People are fucking oblivious. They vote for a single issue at most, and don’t understand what they signed up for.

    • Sabin10@lemmy.world
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      24 days ago

      It’s almost like someone has been systematically dismantling your education system for 50 or so years so they could reach this point.

    • Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world
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      24 days ago

      It’s brexit mentality. People voted for change from the status quo.

      Most don’t imagine that change will could make their lives worse.

    • Todd Bonzalez@lemm.ee
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      18 days ago

      I live in a very liberal place, and people still throw their TVs and ACs into the fucking recycling dumpster. Americans are overall a very stupid group of people. Red areas doubly so.

    • Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      24 days ago

      This may sound controversial and no I don’t have a way to implement it, but we should probably have a means to screen the knowledge of voters over the things they’re voting on before they can access a ballot box.

      • grue@lemmy.world
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        24 days ago

        Consider that the MAGAs would be in charge of administering and scoring such a test and you’ll immediately see why that’s a bad idea.

      • CMonster@discuss.online
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        24 days ago

        I’ve been thinking about this lately. Is this the moment when we realize a democracy isn’t all it’s cracked up to be?