• jettrscga@lemmy.world
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    20 hours 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.

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      20 hours ago

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

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      18 hours ago

      Yeah, oblivious sums it up. Despite all the stuff that’s happened, and all the information and video evidence that’s readily available to anybody who cares enough to look at it, their team is their team. If you fancy yourself a smart responsible Christian, especially a white one, your ignorant ass is just a Republican.

      • Queen HawlSera@lemm.ee
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        9 hours ago

        The amount of people who are horrified now that they’ve had tariffs explained to them is… depressingly high.

        They didn’t wanna look up what a tarrif was before voting for Mr. Tariffs?

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          6 hours ago

          They just thought that was the magic word he was going to use to set gasoline prices back to what they were in 2016!

    • Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      19 hours 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.

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        2 hours 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?

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        13 hours 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.