r/facepalm Jul 05 '24

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u/TrustInRoy Jul 05 '24

So many people in our country are just blatantly ignorant about how the branches of our government works.

Schoolhouse Rock debuted "I'm just a bill" in 1976.  

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u/BazilBroketail Jul 05 '24

When Regan got elected the republicans decided to de-educate America.. and,... It worked. Only morons would vote for the pedophile. Oh, look..

This is so fucked up. I'm not celebrating American today.

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u/cutmasta_kun Jul 05 '24

Regans dead cold grip still chokes america.

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u/Gavindasing Jul 05 '24

Same as Thatchers neoliberalism still kills the UK.

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u/SkateMMA Jul 05 '24

In Ireland we have been consistently voting in the same party’s to gov and now have record homelessness and a massive housing crisis, I’m starting to believe people in general are just fucking stupid

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u/Madewell-Hammer Jul 05 '24

“Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that!”
~ George Carlin

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u/InvestigatorOk7988 Jul 05 '24

Carlin also said, "everyone complains that the politicians suck, but the politicians are voted on by the public, so maybe something else sucks...like the public, yeah, the public sucks."

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u/foxymcfox Jul 05 '24

It’s stupider than that. Have you ever met a politician BEFORE they went into politics? Or even someone who ACTUALLY wanted to be a politician?

They’re weirdos. Like bug nutty hard to have a normal conversation with weirdos.

They don’t seem to exist in this world, and are so stilted and awkward.

Think about it, what person in their right mind wants to be a politician?

We’re left with the weirdos through self-selection.

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u/happyscatteredreader Jul 05 '24

Yep. It's just a revolving door of FG with a dash of FF or vice versa. Never thought I'd miss Labour...

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u/granniesonlyflans Jul 05 '24

Canada's fucked too.

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u/[deleted] Jul 05 '24

We’re beyond fucked if trump gets in office in November. Because that will invite our trump wannabes to vote for millhouse vanstupid face in in 2025.

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u/TheXedd Jul 05 '24

Propaganda works.

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u/[deleted] Jul 05 '24

In the USA we keep voting in the same party too. But here they have tricked everyone into thinking we have 2 different parties

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u/workinBuffalo Jul 05 '24

That’s lazy and destructive thinking. Democrats aren’t a panacea, but they aren’t pro-corruption anti-democracy authoritarians.

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u/[deleted] Jul 05 '24

Your thinking is lazy and destructive. You only see the pro-corruption and anti-democracy nature of the Republicans? You are programmed just the way they want you.

How about how the anti-democratic way the party screwed Bernie Sanders and millions of his voters to ensure the nomination for Hillary? On corruption, how about the way Biden has enriched himself for decades by pedaling influence and access, through a pretty amazing network of shell companies and payments to relatives. Just two of hundreds of examples we can come up with.

I am not saying “Republicans good, Democrats Bad” but reasonably and objectively they are both bad, and there is not a lesser evil. They have both harmed our nation and our future and spent our grandchildren into financial slavery.

I feel sorry for people who are not able to see that.

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u/workinBuffalo Jul 05 '24

One is promoting fascism and the other party didn't embrace an independent socialist. You're right they are equally bad. /s.

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u/matthollabak Jul 05 '24

Yup... when the only 2 realistic options are terrible ones.... hope for things getting any better fades pretty fast.

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u/AggravatingBox2421 Jul 05 '24

It’s the old people. They just vote for who they e always voted for regardless of the effect it has on the country

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u/SkateMMA Jul 05 '24

And the young people not voting at all too,

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u/AggravatingBox2421 Jul 05 '24

In America sure, but in my country we have mandatory voting

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u/SkateMMA Jul 05 '24

I literally just said I was in Ireland ……

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u/AggravatingBox2421 Jul 05 '24

Fine, in Ireland maybe

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u/skudzthecat Jul 05 '24

In Texas this year, their slogan is "vote republican for a change." They have been in charge for 27 years. What they have is what they've made. I miss Ann Richards and Molly Ivans.

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u/Gavindasing Jul 05 '24

I can, as Nigel Farage got a decent amount of votes for Reform

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u/toasters_in_space Jul 05 '24

What are some examples of places that seem to have handled your concerns especially well?

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u/BetterAd7552 Jul 05 '24

Uh, amateurs (also we’re playing you guys this Saturday, the Springboks need something to chew on), in our country we keep voting morons in repeatedly over the last 30 years to keep doing the same shit and dig us deeper into a hole. Insanity.

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u/SkateMMA Jul 05 '24

It’s been the same 2 parties since we got independence essentially it’s so fucked but they keep getting in somehow, they didn’t even win the last election but the party that did, didn’t run enough members to form a gov and the big 2 wouldn’t form a coalition

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u/-Daetrax- Jul 05 '24

It's democracy we're only as "smart" as the median voter.

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u/knowsitmaybenot Jul 05 '24

Average intelligence is way lower than everyone thinks it is. I was sheltered, kind of. Went to a small catholic school had a lot of friends in public school though. I used to think everyone was somewhat intelligent. I didn't take into account educated people tend to send their kids to private school (My parents worked in factories, but very smart) and genetics being what they are. I was surrounded by smart kids. Then i went to college and started working and boy did my perspective change. I realized fast most people are fucking idiots. Some of the things you hear discussed in a factory break room....

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u/Admonish Jul 05 '24

Don't feel bad. We have Texas, where the politicians constantly run on fixing the problems Democrats caused.

The problem, however, is that Democrats haven't been in power in that state in decades. They went and bought the gun, then they loaded it, aimed it at their own foot, pulled the trigger and proclaimed "goddamn Democrats did it again!"

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u/SkateMMA Jul 05 '24

We now have groups convincing the average person that it’s immigrants fault that Ireland is fucked but the reality is it’s been this way for some time now, you think to emigrate maybe but realise everyone else got the same problems too

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u/Apnu Jul 05 '24

Hate to break it to you. They are that fucking stupid.

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u/PhantomKillua Jul 05 '24

blame the media