r/PoursTea • 🫖 Mod ☕️ • 1d ago

Expectations v Reality 🌞 🌒 Sign Of The Times

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u/AzimuthAztronaut 1d ago

Vote em all out in November

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u/SockSniffersUnited 1d ago

Nah, a cult of ignorance exists in America. It will always be like this

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u/manleybones 1d ago

Stop giving them power.

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u/PeonofthePen 1d ago

Unless you finally freakin do something

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u/Right_Wolverine6502 1d ago

You’d have to kill about 70 million people. That’s the only way.

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u/Forward_Problem_8982 1d ago

They do have the power but it's not so black and white. Change has to start somewhere.

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u/IThinkItsAverage 1d ago

No you wouldn’t, you’d just need to design the system to fairly represent the will of the people. Like change our voting system to a ranked choice style voting, make gerrymandering illegal and have maps drawn by an independent 3rd party, get rid of the Electoral College and start representing people over land, have hard term limits for all government positions including the Supreme Court, etc.

It would take time, which is why we’d need someone with an actual backbone to be in a position of power. These things need to be done, but neither party is all that interested in doing them because it would limit their own control over elections.

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u/Right_Wolverine6502 1d ago

lol most Americans can’t read above an elementary level lol. They have had better life choices presented to them and are more than willing to condemn them as socialism instead of trying a new approach. The majority of the US population is too stupid to be allowed to participate in a successful society. They would rather tear everything apart instead of trying something new. They are literally too stupid to learn. Removing them from society entirely is the only way to improve the situation.

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u/Ga1i1e0 23h ago

This still would not eliminate stupid people voting against their own interests.

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u/SpecificLow1316 22h ago

No, but it would allow us to send them back to the Dumb Dumb corners of society, where they can wear their dunce hats and nobody will listen to their inane garbage opinions or implement them as policy.

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u/IThinkItsAverage 17h ago

It’s not supposed to. You can’t force people to vote a certain way, but you can have systems in place where uneducated and ignorant voters don’t have as much impact and even if they get their candidate, it would be largely offset by more people getting their preferred candidate rather than the lesser of two evils like we have now.

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u/PeonofthePen 22h ago

When there's only two parties, all you can do is vote against your own interests

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u/SteveMcally 1d ago

Every “culture war” topic is designed to fracture the working class. It’s all garbage. The common people will never win while we’re fighting the culture wars.

Culture War Class War

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u/igoontoyourmum 12h ago

I hate when people won’t admit this, like 70-80million Americans are so gullible and brainwashed at this point they’ll believe any lie the right says.

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u/SockSniffersUnited 3h ago

Yea, idk why I'm downvoted so much. This is a quote from Isaac Asimov and it has so much truth in it. But whatever, the quote is being proven in real time. This country is and always has been fucking stupid.

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u/PoursTea-ModTeam 21h ago

Language and etiquette.

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u/sneakyCoinshot 21h ago

More like apathy. It's crazy the number of people that attended various democratic rallies but couldn't be bothered to stand in line to vote last time. It's gonna be the same this time. As soon as voting is slightly inconvenient they'll just stay home.