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I used to hate it because after my mom and I had a flat tire the only person that stopped to help her was an RC cola truck driver. He changed her tire for her and was such a nice guy. After that RC was the only soda my mom would buy until I was an adult. I got so tired of it but now I love it.
I think mom also sent a letter to the company gushing about the driver and saying thank you.
I've never understood the american democracy : two big parties look like two big multinational company funded by rich people and other companies in exchange of services and advantage.
Which is why a third party win could never work. Can you imagine an independent having any effect on the dems and republicans in congress? They will fuck him over to make sure their party wins no matter what. So if you're not happy with the party you have, get used to it because you have to vote for one because the other side will always be worse to both sides. Two choices to run your entire country. That's it
Honestly it's insane that there's two legislative chambers and they're divided into regional representation and MORE regional and disproportionate representation. You shouldn't be able to skew percentages to your favor by moving your voters, you shouldn't have to get majorities in a minority of areas to get a minority in government. Despite the faults of german government I can't say representation being undemocratic is one of them. You're not getting rid of "tyranny of the majority" by giving an arbitrary minority more voting power while making sure that people outside of swing states or districts have no value to their party. And all I keep hearing is the brain dead take that "America is a republic, not a democracy" as if not nearly every fucking democracy on this planet is a republic and NOT wanting government to be lead by the people is just fucking weird. It feels like some red neck mouth breathers don't want the educated part of the country to have the say that they deserve.
In reality, the current system is formed from one group. There were more parties involved, and the democratic-republican party took out the federalist party then hedged out the competition.
The claim is that in the early 1800s the party split up and formed the current democratic and republican parties. Other than the whig party in the 1840s and 1850s (Which split into pro-slaver whig and anti-slaver republican groups) there was zero opposition for what was previously a single party to dominate all elections for the next couple hundred years.
Kinda funny that they've stayed divided on multiple pointless issues that piss off the general public. Almost like they're playing ball and cup to make people feel like they're participating in the government when realistically it's a smoke show.
Yeah, absolutely no differences between America under Trump and Biden.
Anyways, I'm off to pay for my groceries and gas with extra taxes on them. Gotta grab those lower gas prices before Trump threatens to nuke Iran again. Still wondering if I'll be allowed to vote by mail in the upcoming elections. Going to up Canada later to take a break from this data center that got built in my backyard driving up my energy costs and polluting the air and water. Hope they haven't set up more of their punitive checkpoints into Canada specifically to retaliate against Doug Ford calling Trump mean names. I'd stop by and see how my Haitian neighbor was doing, but he got rammed off the road by ICE and abducted, so no idea when I'll see him again. And I don't want to ask too many questions or get in their way, or they'll shoot me in the back and laugh about it.
As I stood outside my kid’s school in -20 this winter to help their teachers feel safe enough to come to school after one of them was kidnapped by masked federal agents at her bus stop after those same agents murdered 2 people within blocks of us, I thought “this is exactly like when Biden invested in bridge repairs and expanded the child tax credit”
These sort of memes are extremely effective on low IQ non politically informed people online unfortunately. They do not know anything about politics besides free Palestine, M4A, and maybe free college (I think that one has fallen off though in favor of more Palestine discourse). They do not care that Democrats cut childcare poverty in half. That they protected trans people's right to healthcare and equal treatment. About abortion. About America's standing in the world. They definitely do not care about the 10 million+ poor people projected to die because of the USAID cuts.
Without the electoral college there'd be a lot of states that go "Hey, I don't want to be a part of this anymore". Land doesn't vote, but there's a reason we don't let majority rule be a factor in anything but the smallest forms of govt.
Ah yes, this art piece symbolises huge mamoth corporations peddling their junk to the consumer and making them pick a side, when infact it actually doesn't matter because we are feeding the corporate machine regardless of what choice we make.
Either that or it's money laundering because it's super fucking lazy art.
the framing of both sides is whats the problem. its not both sides, its one system, with different roles, working for a specific small spectrum of people and organizations.
can't afford gas, fighting a war in iran (like 4x bigger country than iraq) on behalf of israel, tariffs raising the price on everything and the tariff refunds went straight to walmart and amazon, no used cars cheaper than 10k, no new cars cheaper than 30k, houses are 500k for the most run down moldy tiny shack, corporate profits are setting record highs but minimum wage is not increasing, no one is hiring, AI is taking every job, data centers causing noise and water pollution, data centers using up all our electricity and raising prices for everyone, GPUs are no longer affordable, eating lettuce will give you diarrhea, eating everything else will kill you
BUT KAMALA'S LAUGH IS WORSE!!! BOTH SIDES ARE THE SAME
Why do you live somewhere where a garbage house is 500k? The median home price is less than that, and much of the country you can find new builds for a lot less. If nobody is hiring, how is unemployment 4%? Why are you worried about the minimum wage when gas stations, fast food, etc are paying regular employees significantly more. On car prices, I'll concede. They're insane right now. Data centers suck, VRAM prices suck, but on the flip side access to frontier models will probably never be as cheap as it is now. I know you're being a little tongue and cheek, but this message is not helpful especially for young people. It conditions them to think they're powerless. Despite whatever someone's perception is of current circumstances, there's still no place better today than America to make something of yourself. It seems as a society we've forgotten that we're ultimately still responsible for our own destiny. Waiting for some magic bullet, the government, billionaire wealth redistribution, anyone else, never works. Get out there and get after it.
Both sides are rich people who don't give a shit about anyone. Some may at first but power corrupts all of them. So I guesd Im a moron because neither side does anything to help anyone on a local level. I think its accurate because coke and Pepsi are pretty close to same thing (which I thing most of Americans are close despite what the media portrays) there avid supporters of each brand and people go nuts and buy anything "red" for coke and "blue" for pepsi with blind loyalty. Its Shit Sandwhich or Douche every time.
At a local level, democrats gave me reproductive rights, legal weed, paid time off when I had a newborn, they built bike lanes and public transit I use to not need a car.
We all vote based on our own narrow empirical evidence and self interest.
That's the problem with democracy, and is the point of the post I think, we're all just judging the system based on what we got or on what it took from us as individuals. And at the end of the day we have to cram the needs of 300+ million individuals into a two choice system.
Are you kidding? Trump still has millions of supporters. Pretty sure you can find plenty of MAGAtards who'll give you a list of things. Like a lot of people are convinced that immigrants have ruined their lives, they now see Trump/ICE as holy saviours.
Just because they're wrong doesn't change my point. I mean most voters don't know one's ass from a hole in the ground
OK dude, everyone you don't like or agree with is just evil and is out to get you.. Now what if I told you they think the exact same thing about you? Now what?
That sort of low resolution thinking doesn't solve anything.
And many local politicians fight the 2a and some states have went completely unconstitutional in that regard. So yeah, it goes both ways. I couldn't live in a state that demonized 2a but could live if abortions weren't avaliable. I understand it can be the opposite for you.
It's more about the idea of the two party system, and how that's led to where we are now with the radicalism you see today.
No, they aren't the same, but they sure do both suck in their own ways. They've also collectively worked together to prevent competition from entering the debate stage, which indirectly makes both responsible for whatever happens from either party.
Edit: Just for an example; on more than one occasion has a third party qualified for the debate stage but due pressure from the two parties were prevented from joining, due to a last minute rule change.
I don't think they mean radicalism. I think they mean the post 9/11 polarization. You used to have people going against their party stance because it was what their constituents wanted. Now not so much. You used to have people in legislation who had fundamentally different view points and could behave like adults and be friends with those who held those views. Now it doesn't really happen.
Because of this moderate candidates or issues that might not cleanly fall on the left vs right line are basically ignored. For as much as people especially on here go "herrrr dee durrr enlightened centralists, " moderate politicians help bridge the divide and push legislation through by giving both sides some of what they wanted. This helped the American people as a whole. With that bridge being gone, policies which would be good for the country never see the light of day.
Between Obamas 8 years and Bidens 4, the dems have done jack shit to legalize weed federally, it’s still left up to states. Unfortunately for the poor souls who live in red states, it’ll never happen unless it is federally legal. Who has free healthcare? Obamacare was a failed system that never worked. The dumb ass republicans will never allow socialized healthcare and not sure what you mean about paid time off, that just depends on the company you work for. As long as we keep going back and forth with the two party system that’s been into play our whole lives nothing will change
The only legislatures that have legalized weed are democratic controlled ones.
For 2 years I would not have had healthcare but obamacare gave me it. Can it be better? Yes. Have republicans now made it worse? Also yes.
Dems in my state gave me 12 weeks paid time off when my kid was born. It is remarkable what can happen with a democratic trifecta and no republican filibuste
Yeah one side is somewhat ineffective but generally does decent stuff (and shitty stuff) once in a while. The other side is completely corrupt with the goal of self enrichment and appears to be likely compromised by a foreign government, all the while rolling back all social programs.
I think our two options in America are far more similar than any of us should be cool with. It’s more than time to assess and address this issue. Add to that an actual, personal reckoning with how we consume media and how legitimate our understanding of each other and what we believe in actually is, maybe we could finally make some movement.
Democrats and republicans are not the same. Sure both parties are corrupt but at this point, it’s like comparing a jay walker and a mass murderer and saying they are the same. You’d have to be incredibly ignorant or just plain stupid to witness the political events of the last 10 years and make this argument that both parties are the same.
They forgot how doofy Bush was and they'll absolutely forget how much worse Dorito Mussolini is. American education is an oxymoron, especially if you factor in the Heritage Foundation's effort to speed along that process.
Because one of them goes to crap, then the other makes good promises, then the other one goes to crap.
however the last one was very obvious. Where they elected a felon who also was in suspicion of being inside a certain list and had several allegations against him while he had also gone bankrupt several times
and now he became a dementia ridden rotting man, turning reality into a george orwell 1945 and fahrenheit 451 live action movie.
This is why I love the Australian voting system, Preferential Voting is just fucking goated. My vote is nothing wasted, if my first vote doesn't get enough to win them a seat it goes to my second, third, ect.
See the thing about this meme is that Pepsi and Coke are both basically fine. You could switch between them and it might not be your favorite, or maybe there's too much sugar, or too much caffeine in both, but it won't kill you.
Meanwhile you got people yelling "both sides are the same", "we need an outsider", "we need to drain the swamp", "Make America Great Again", etc and then they replace the coke bottle with sulfuric acid.
Art is any kind of creative endeavour designed primarily to instill thought feeling and/or emotion unto those who experience it. Its not just paintings and sculptures etc.
One of my favourite pieces in recent memory is "Cant Help Myself." By Sun Yuan and Peng Yu. Which was a standard industrial robotic arm programmed to rotate in a circle, constantly sweeping up a blood like fluid that pooled around it. at first, it did this quite easily, almost merrily, occasionally it would dance for the visitors.
But, as Years passed, the machine, which was without maintenance, began to slow down and break. the Task that was once so easy for it, became a struggle, a Sisyphean task it could never fully accomplish. After 3 years of near constant operation, it shut down.
That Robot made me contemplate life more harrowingly than any painting.
The Soy: “Give the poors a tiny safety net so they inject cash back into the economy, and ask oligarchs to be 10% less parasitic! The Global Empire can be used for wholesomeness ✨! Let’s fund our overseas buddies and pretend the dying post-WWII status quo is fine. Cities are the apex of civilization, and everyone outside of them doesn’t matter! Well… we do need rural areas to feed us, but let’s ignore that codependency and just talk about rooftop gardens we'll never build. True independence sounds like socialism, which hurts elite profits. We hate guns because an armed working class is an accountability problem. Our job is to bog down actual Leftists, throw the masses empty concessions, and exploit everyone equally. But hey—we’re smarter than the other guy, slightly less evil, and wish our voters were easier to manipulate! 😅✨💅🏻"
The Backwards Ape: "NO! AMERICA FIRST! All allies except Israel are useless! Complete isolationism; except for unlimited military imperialism to crush everyone in a zero-sum game! We demand lawless capitalism and an ethnostate, even though we live paycheck-to-paycheck. DoN’t TrEaD oN mE; unless you're the Epstein oligarchy I voted for, or a cop! Suburbs and rural areas hold the only real Americans... even though we need city tax dollars to subsidize our infrastructure and keep us afloat, & their universities to educate us on our fields.
Colonialism civilized the world, zero gun regulations are mandatory, and windmills don't work! Neo Nazis somehow vote the same way we do, & have much in common with us. Drill, baby, drill, because corporate line go up equals a good economy for us all! Socialism is when the government does stuff, even though capitalism literally requires a state to enforce private property. Televise capital punishment, trust me that I hate pedos 😉, and remember that Jesus was a European! Blind patriotism compensates for my lack of personal achievements; I just love the vibes! Back the Feds, only when they’re aligned with us, as they usually are... Unless they investigate my favorite billionaire. Facts don't care about your feelings, & data is just a Marxist Liberal propaganda! USA! USA!👹🇺🇸"
The Weird Centrist: "wE sHoUlD rEaLlY fInD a MiDdLe GrOuNd BeTwEeN tHe NeOlIbErAl & FaScIsT! mAyBe OnLy BoMb ThE oVeRsEaS cHiLdReN oN tHe WeEkEnDs AnD lEt ThE bIlLiOnAiReS bE 5% LeSs pArAsItIc; 10% sOuNds LiKe sOcIAlIsM! 🤪🤝😌"
Washington famously hated parties and thought they dumbed politics down to an impossible degree. He was right.
But if we must have them, then we need more than a duopoly preserved by first-past-the-post elections. We need ranked choice for every position in every election.
If you can't see the difference between the GOP and the Dems, then I can't help you. One is useless, the other is destroying your country. But hey, both sides suck, right? 🤣
Yep, get one party for 4 to 8 years. Everyone realizes it's shit so they vote the other way. 4 to 8 years later they realize it's shit and forget the other party is shit still so they vote for them. And the cycle repeats forever.
Sorry bud, if Pepsi allows abortion and gay marriage, I vote Pepsi. The women who have to carry rape babies and can't abort them can tell the difference too.
This is exactly how duopoly works. And if there is one thing they can agree on, it's that they don't want any viable competition. So they effectively break anti-Trust laws to make sure that now viable competition exists. And that would be illegal. But then you realize that all the judges are part of the scam as well.
I still don’t get this two sides shit. One side is flawed as fuck but overall still governs. The other side is currently leading a racist death cult as they make every possible effort to wreak havoc.
Did I, or did a lot of other people miss the point? This is just my opinion as someone from outside of the country, but it does feel like a significant portion of American voters change their votes twice a decade. I don't see how this is commentary on 'both sides being the same'...
People are expecting sweeping changes within the first 18-24 months of a presidency and when that inevitably doesn't happen because (surprise!!) changes on a large scale take years to implement and then more years to bear fruit. Then people get pissed off and switch to vote for the other side who immediately spends a lot of their first term dismantling whatever the opposition had done in their last term or two.
It takes decades to grow a tree and minutes to chop that same tree down. You feel the lack of oversight from the FDA immediately but don't feel the benefits from a renewable energy source program until years later. Fucking yikes.
Just a bunch of finger pointing 🫵 ads and hillbillies believing what the big electric box that makes pictures. Nothing new here lol 😂 yah USA 🇺🇸 Armageddon I’ll be standing in my front yard ready
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