Don't blame me, I voted for the other guy. (Politics General)

Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what’s for dinner. Thanks, Ancient Greece!

@NitroFury  

Do what Indonesia did up the late 90s. Democracy, but every vote that doesn’t go for the current president is null, void, or questionable.
 
Aka people could vote, but it didn’t matter. Har Har Har.

@Goku Black  
Democracy gives the common people a voice that doesn’t involve guillotines.

@Background Human  
A pity that so many of them are foolish, easily misled, or just plain mean.

@Latecomer  
Pretty much everyone, sadly. It takes a lot of effort to be correctly informed, and it takes diligence to make sure you are not falling to some form of bias. For many it is also efficient to be ignorant as well, since the effort you need to put in to making sure your vote is well informed is just one vote among many.

@Latecomer  
Still better for them to advertise their ignorance at the ballot box rather than an angry mob.

@NitroFury
 
I mean, I get wanting “Our Guy” to be Leader for Life ^TM. But you can’t call yourself a Patriot ^TM at the same time as calling for an end to our democracy.
 
Edit: Speaking of “Patriots ^TM”, woman believed to be the one to steal Pelosi’s laptop also allegedly tried to sell it to Russian intelligence agency.
 
Let’s be fair though. Even Trump gets confused on which nation he serves from time to time a lot.

People are talking shit about Biden tearing up talking about his dead son.
 
I’d rather have a president who cries over a family tragedy than one who cries because his Twitter got shut down.
 
 
Good riddance to that orange dust coated peice of shit. May he one day rot and be forgotten.

@Zincy  
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People are really heartless enough to attack Biden for getting sad over him remembering the death of his son?

@Background Pony #1F81  
Have not met people have you?

@Zincy  

 
The forgotten part won’t happen. He’s the only president to be impeached TWICE!!!

And with about 15 hours left before we can finally be rid of the Orange Cancer, we’ve now broken the 400k Covid death milestone.

@igotnopicks  
He was a president period.

@Background Pony #1DB9  
He’s still president right now.

@Dustcan  
You also have a capital under military lockdown and paranoid politicans

@Backgroundpony
 
Well, Trump did want the military patrolling the streets…

@Dustcan  
For my own sick entertainment I hope the “He is trying a militar coup/ assassination atempt by the mostly white national guard” paranoid democrates are right XD
 
but for you it would be better if they get the fear/hate mongering democrates out together with Trump.
 
You guys are _so close to an real authoritarian shithole.

@Backgroundpony  

 
Actually I think you’ll find that it’s the ‘Paranoid Alt-Right’ an QAnon faithful that have been pushing that theory.

@Background Pony #5468  
Weird deflection of the most unimportant part - is weird

@Backgroundpony
 
You and Silb often use words describing fallacies and heuristics in completely wrong ways.
 
 
I’m conceived that neither of you know what any of those words actually mean.

2 national guardsmen removed for having ties to militias.  
All of the nat. guard troops in the capital have had background checks done on them for fears of inside jobs.  
And apparently none of them have loaded rifles, which is kind of stupid in my book.

@lonewolf  

 
Standard Guard SOP. None of them get weapons, or loaded weapons when on the streets, unless they are facing people known to have loaded weapons themselves, then they get a magazine.
 
Don’t even got powers of arrest which is p based ngl. They’re just there to spook.
 
 
Otherwise they do yearly road trips to the Gulf to clean up after hurricanes. Life of a guardsman.

With Trump’ s term coming to an end, I wa t to say that the 2010’s was a really shitty period for politics online.
 
Seemed like after GamerGate and “sjws” that everyone online seemed to get more bitter and angry.

@Background Pony #1F81  
Agreed. Not to mention it started the gender wars back in 2016 with the backlash towards Ghostbusters 2016 and Hillary Clinton’s campaign and continued since 2017 with the MeToo movement. And also, the division of the country because of political preferences, all in account of Trump’s racist remarks when he’s running for president.
 
None of this wouldn’t happen if Trump didn’t say those remarks.