• FreshParsnip
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    16 hours ago

    I agree, it frustrates me to no end that people think politics is something that is okay to just not be interested in, like movies or video games. Lack of interest in politics is how America git into this situation. How do people not understand that people’s rights and freedoms are taken away because of “politics”? How are there still people in America oblivious that they’re living in a fascist dictatorship?

    • Soup@lemmy.world
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      1 hour ago

      I remember one guy telling a story where someone he met was saying that, well into Harris’ campaign, they really hoped the country got togehter and voted against Biden. As in, to be abundantly clear, they didn’t know that Biden hadn’t been on the ballot for months but they did have a very strong feeling about the him getting elected.

      Here in Montréal we elected a mayor and party that are full of scandals and who ride developper dick during a housing crisis. 63% of the city rents but only 36% of the city showed up to vote and most of them voted for the cartoonishly bad party and a shocking amount voted for the “more parking garages downtown” party. It was, frankly, embarrassing as hell.