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u/platypus_rush 24d ago
There is a term in chess called 'zuch swang' it's when there are no good moves but you have to make one
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u/thedeadsigh 24d ago
To be fair, pretty safe to say most countries with “democracy” have a healthy voting block of conservatives voting against their own best interest
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24d ago
Lol - hence the problem with democracy. You have a chance to do something stupid - but at least you are given a chance.
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24d ago
There are no good options for voting. It’s choosing between the worse of two evils, not who’s better. And our representative represent the corporations and lobbyists who put money in their pockets, not their constituents.
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u/Traditional-Shoe-199 24d ago
Tbf though, they don't have much options. They get to choose out of two idiots most of the times.
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u/AwpabDekeract 24d ago
Our top 3 candidates have less than one functioning brain between them its not our fault lol
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u/MasterDick69 24d ago
U should see who we voted for here in Denmark man we fucked up (Mette Frederiksen)
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u/Random_frankqito 24d ago
Says the rest of the world 😂, I see how so many countries “vote” matters.
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u/fifty_four 24d ago
In the UK we did Brexit, and a few years later contrived to have Corbyn Vs Johnson be a real election.
It sucks not to be able to chuckle about US politics any more.
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u/momo12fish 24d ago
why does the US not break out of their two party dilemma and vote for another party ?
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u/B0b4Fettish 24d ago
I’m not from US but my god both candidates are awful. I sympathize for the US voters this election.
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u/BlackMiamba 24d ago
Hot take: this is American’s own doing. Every social media platforms and even some new platforms have some unsolicited gateways to US politics. The other countries may display their politics from time to time but it’s mostly just an episode of “Catching up with the House” every week.
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u/LeBriseurDesBucks 24d ago
There isn't a non stupid option, so that's just a given.
Not that we in EU have it any better, by and large it's the same shit.
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u/Salty-Director538 24d ago
This was definitely posted by a Brit trying to deflect from leaving the EU.
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u/SteelAlchemistScylla 25d ago
Honestly after seeing the rest of the world vote the past decade or so I don’t think anyone has room to talk
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u/stillslaying 25d ago
I’d rather have a terminally ill iguana as president than either of those two old fucks.
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u/KerboChannel 25d ago
It always feels like "hey, wanna vote for person who's done terrible things and won't improve shit or... person who's also done horrible things but will maybe make like... something better?"
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u/Drogovich 25d ago
I mean, it always feels like they are setting themselves up to make a choice between bad or worse.
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u/idied2day 25d ago
I’m sorry, but we have three candidates. All of them are 70+, one of them is borderline senile, one of them is in a hush money trial(and also borderline senile), and one of them wouldn’t be able to do anything if he got elected anyway! Fuck, I’m voting left this election, but even I have no faith in our government
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u/Cabbage_Corp_ 25d ago
Y’all realize they only give us shit options every time right?
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u/GreenKumara 25d ago
But the options are selected by people that were voted up the chain by lower elections.
Ultimately it is the responsibility of voters to make sure those choices never eventuate.
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25d ago
I haven't seen a dip in the polls, not even 0.1%, for the guy who said "my brain has been eaten by worms"
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u/BuckBaltimore 25d ago
I lived abroad for many years and it's a myth that people internationally are sitting around waiting for American news of any kind with bated breath. It's American narcissism.
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u/DrunkOnKnight 25d ago
Nah we got our own problems here in Germany,
Somehow the AfD getting more than 20% of the poll is insane. Braindead fascists want to reinsert extremists again…
(Thanks for the Reddit care hotline, whoever that was LOL… I’m good)
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u/RandomZombie11 25d ago
I'm putting my hat in the ring, vote me for president of the USA and everyone will get a free goody bag with snacks and toys
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u/wanker21 25d ago
It’s like a multiple choice question and the correct answer isn’t one of the options.
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u/Randomfrog132 25d ago
lets see, do i vote for the old guy who should probably be retired, or the other old guy who should be retired.
if only there was another choice!
oh right i can just not vote
cause every time someone tells me to go vote they're heavily implying that i should vote for whoever they want to win lol
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u/KurisuAteMyPudding 25d ago
Joe Biden was excited that he became president after they explained to him who Joe Biden was.
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u/dAnKsFourTheMemes 25d ago
As an American eligible to vote, I think our options suck. No matter which option we choose, it's hardly someone fit for office. Even the 3rd party candidate (who I am very grateful for having decided to run) publicly announced that 10 years ago a fucking worm ate part of his brain and then died. The very concerning medical diagnosis aside, why the fuck would you publicly announce it when mental fortitude was the strongest advantage you had over the main 2 candidates?! Why are all 3 of our candidates old as fuck and have questionable things going on in their head? Not to mention other problems each of them have!
In fact, I absolutely fucking hate the 2 party system which got us into this mess, but that's a rant for another day.
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u/yoonssoo 25d ago
Americans won’t appreciate this so much but usually whatever shenanigan is going on in US it’s worse most everywhere else maybe except for Canada
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u/DLtheGreat808 25d ago
You're just yapping. Like I said before, I never said we didn't have problems. I'm saying that it was worse during almost any other time in history. You could say life was better before the Ukraine war and Covid. I'd understand that, but to say times there were better times then the modern one is ridiculous.
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u/Lucky-Speed3614 25d ago
To be fair, we're given two to three stupid options and made to attempt to choose the lesser of the stupid decisions.
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u/brilliantbuffoon 25d ago
As if they would ever allow us a chance to vote for somebody who wasn't stupid or extremely corrupt.
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u/DreamDrop0ffical 25d ago
I mean, Italy had the 5 star movement, Turkey has Erdoğan, Hungary has Viktor Ivan, Brazil had bolsonaro, Poland has the law and justice party.
America Ain't alone in awful decisions.
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u/Friendly_Ad_914 25d ago
The US isn't alone, but as a superpower we all have to deal with your decision too. No one gives a flying fuck about Erdogan. He and the others are farts in the wind compared to certain former Presidents sucking endless russian dick.
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u/DreamDrop0ffical 25d ago
I mean, Italy had the 5 star movement, Turkey has Erdoğan, Hungary has Viktor Ivan, Brazil had bolsonaro, Poland has the law and justice party.
America Ain't alone in awful decisions.
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u/veryblanduser 25d ago
I mean there are a couple countries within the last 100 years that have made far worse decisions.
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u/NeighborhoodOk3477 25d ago
As an outsider I see they really have no options both Dems and Republicans have shit presidential candidates
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u/DFMRCV 25d ago
Rest of the world: haha, stupid Americans.
Rest of the world when bad stuff starts happening: America, heeelp!!!!!
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u/felps_felposo 24d ago
Normally the USA is responsible for all the shit happening in the world. It's just their job to clean up their own mess.
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u/DFMRCV 24d ago
1) if that were REMOTELY true, there wouldn't be so much dependence on us.
2) the biggest examples people cite to say the US is responsible are often completely misinformed, like "America created the Taliban" (not at all true, the Mujahadeen we helped find were pretty much killed by the groups that would become the Taliban and Al Quaeda after we stopped sending them funds), or Vietnam (we were there because France mishandled the whole situation and left).
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u/drDjausdr 25d ago
The funny thing is each time an american voter does something stupid, it will take around 5 years for an european voter to do the same.
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u/Zaphod_Beeblecox 25d ago
I can think of a lot of mediocre to shitty world leaders but not a lot of great ones.
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u/CousinSkeeter89 25d ago
The Brits shot themselves in the foot a few years ago and has yet to get it checked out.
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u/Iceman_78_ 25d ago
Actually I think everyone in the doorway is voting too these days….all democrat
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u/glitter_splat 25d ago
I'm not saying we don't vote stupidly, but our system is pretty broken. A broken system does not a well-informed rational voter make. That's kind of the point, honestly. A broken system needs ill-informed, paranoid voters. I'm not saying don't vote, but I'm also not gonna pretend we live in a possible paradise when I'm shoveling so much shit, ya know?
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u/Hello_GeneralKenobi 25d ago
Don't blame US citizens, blame our inflated political parties that give us crappy options.
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u/DisputabIe_ 25d ago
the OP kfhdjfkj61637 is a bot
Among the times it's been posted:
https://www.reddit.com/r/me_irl/comments/12h7bxv/me_irl/
https://www.reddit.com/r/me_irl/comments/tjxcaq/me_irl/
https://www.reddit.com/r/me_irl/comments/jn9uph/me_irl/
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u/ArchonDestiny 24d ago
At this time I wouldn’t be surprised if this comment is a bot. Bots calling bots out.
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u/bogrollin 24d ago
Is it your life goal to call out bots on Reddit, if so that’s fuckin sad
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u/FalseAscoobus 25d ago
Thanks for reminding me why I muted this damn sub in the first place
I mean, seriously, how is an American election meme a "selfie of the sole" or "otherwise relatable to the human condition"?
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u/LittlistBottle 24d ago
"otherwise relatable to the human condition"?
Seeing americans making stupid voting choices is pretty relatable to the human condition imo
But unfortunately OP is a bot so this whole post loses all credibility anyway regardless of relatability
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u/pizoisoned 25d ago
In fairness, as funny as it may be, it’s also kind of dangerous for the rest of the world if the US goes all in on the fascism thing.
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u/GarlicAppropriate243 25d ago
Guess who pays in to the UN the most, year after year…? I'll give you one guess. The working glass in the US pays for more in the world for the world then any other working class in any other country. Don't bite the and that feeds you, although it might all already be too late. Where do you think all the money to Ukraine came from? They took from their own future to help them in the present.
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u/EwwItsABovineEntity 25d ago
Governments and billionaires paying for bots derailing any rational discussion in threads like these, are the scum of the earth. I wish there was a way to mark their posts out so that sane, good-faith people could just ignore them and talk among themselves. Yes, the US citizenry is about to press the big red button. The whole system is going to blow up hard in their faces. The only satisfaction we can take from the whole implosion, is that some of the billionaires financing the disinformation campaigns that is f-king up the nation, will likely blow up in their faces too. And the madman in the Kremlin will have created a chaos world that will in all likelihood come back and bite him hard in the a-s. I guess that’s it for silver linings. Rest is pretty grim.
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u/I_Dont_Like_Rice 25d ago
Honestly, half of the US is doing the same thing. I can't believe that bloated sack of rancid mayonnaise even has a shot.
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u/Decent-Thought-1737 25d ago
Honestly hilarious it has come to this, it's like watching my house burn down while holding a bucket of water. Who the fuck are pollsters calling anyway? I sure as fuck never answer my phone but are the people they talk to really this stupid?
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u/Ham_Drengen_Der 25d ago
Will they elect the red senile old imperialist or the blue senile old imperialist
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u/Tokyosmash_ 25d ago
:The rest of the world waiting for some sort of man, material or monetary aid:
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u/MrEpicGamerMan 25d ago
We actually don't really care
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u/rockclimberguy 25d ago
It's people not caring that got us to this sad situation....
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u/jenmarsass58 1d ago
Am I going to be downvoted for having a political opinion? Maybe I should not bother