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  • ERROR: Earth.exe has crashed@lemmy.dbzer0.comtoNo Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•In the US, is this actually the moment past the point of no return?English
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    19 minutes ago

    It is a democracy.

    Not a good type, but still a democracy.

    Remember, Democracy and Autocracy isnt binary states of its either a Full Totalitarian Regime or a Full Direct Flawless Democracy.

    There’s a sliding scale in between.

    We don’t just go from Monarchies to a perfect Utopian Flawless Democratic system overnight. Change is incremental.

    I do agree with the sentiment that 2 party system isn’t really a good idea, that very much need to be changed.

    But its not like the constitution says “The United States shall be a 2-party system”, its an emergent property of First-Past-The-Post electoral systems. But unfortunately, human brains always look for the first thing they think of, I mean “Most Votes Win” sounds simple right. People never thought about the fact that “Most” doesn’t mean majority, but by the time people realize, its too late, people go too used to it.

    But its still a democracy, a very very flawed democracy. But if you argue that First-Past-The-Post isn’t a democracy, then most of the world are living in dictatorships.

  • ERROR: Earth.exe has crashed@lemmy.dbzer0.comtoNo Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•In the US, is this actually the moment past the point of no return?English
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    14 hours ago

    Not really. Not to be dismissive of the harms of a 2nd term trump.

    But you have to understand what American history has been.

    People were literally enslaved in the early days, then the country was literally at war with itself over slavery. Then Jim Crow and Segregation. Black people were lynched. White mobs would kill black people.

    Chinese people were targeted by the Chinese Exclusion Act and banned from entry, some were US Citizens too and they weren’t except either.

    The US had a major economic crash in 1929. Got into 2 world wars. American Citizens of Japanese ancestry were literally arrested and held in camps because of their ancestry. Went through cols war, the red scare, mccathyism. People randomly getting accused of being “communists” and arrested. Unions get cracked down. Protests were brutally suppressed, more violently than in modern day. Black people protesting for their rights and took a bus down south got burned. Civil Rights activist Martin Luther King Jr. literally got assassinated.

    That is the American history.

    And here we are, through such a shitty history, democracy survived, and voting rights expanded to so many people. First to Black people, then to Women.

    Back then a majority of the population supported segregation, institutionalized racism. But today, a majority of people are okay with interracial marriage.

    I have high hopes we can survive another trump term.

    It won’t be pleasent, but we’ll survive.

  • ERROR: Earth.exe has crashed@lemmy.dbzer0.comtoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•How can I get better at talking?English
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    16 hours ago

    I talk like xQc irl

    🤣 Sorry not laughing at you, I’m laughing with you. I kinda felt that.

    Remember that in real life, conversations isn’t like in movies. Dialogue isn’t so perfect with flowery proses. Real conversations often have incomplete sentences, a lot of “um…” filler words. And there often like frequent pauses when my brain just has to process thoughts before I can say it. Life is like that, is normal.

    What made me less anxious and just go “IDGAF” is just I realized that I am a mortal being and I will eventually die, I kinda had an existential crisis for a while, then I was just like: if everyone just dies, all embarassing moments just gets forgotten

    Like you can piss yourself or shit your pants, look foolish in a live audience of millions of people, say stupid things… whatever. Doesn’t matter, everything is temporary. Being a bit nihilistic just allow you to be yourself. Nothing matter anyways, do what you feel like (except harming others, don’t harm other living being please).

    I mean not to get political, but just look at politicians say stupid things all the time.

    The president of the US fell down a bunch of staird, people laughed, the internet memed it a bit, everyone kinda just went on.

    And most of us doesn’t have the whole world watching is. If I fell down a bunch of stairs, most people that saw it would just forget very soon. Samething with speech, as long as you don’t say anything thats bigoted, nobody care about speech mistakes.

    TLDR: Life is short, do whatever you want as long as it doesn’t harm other living beings. Make mistakes all you want, doesn’t matter in the grand scheme of things.