I Voted!

Socialism/Communism DOESN'T work! If this guy wins...

When Communist Boris Yeltsin from Russia visited Texas in 1989, he went to a grocery store and was shocked by the abundance of food. This shattered his view of Socialism/Communism, confessed the free market works, realized his country was lied to and changed to him actually reforming Russia.

Write up from Russia and Video:
https://englishrussia.com/2015/01/20/borist-yeltsin-in-american-supermarket/

Paranoid much?

Not so much paranoid as that they don't know what the word "Shariah" even means. Or the word "burka". And they probably never left the US and may not even have a passport. (If you have, prove me wrong.)

You need to wear a "burka" to apply for a job now? Do you even know what a burka is?

Now do the one where your Protestant neighbors force-baptize you and make you eat stale cookies in the church basement every Sunday. It's just as realistic.

Not the cookies! I already spend my life rejecting those!

(On a serious note: I suspect a lot of people using this site are extremely misinformed about Islam, "Shariah" and Muslim people, and have maybe never left the US, no offence, and lack life experience. Maybe they've never met any actual Muslims or even been to a mosque.)

Also, I suspect a lot of users are very young.

Can't speak for the older users. They're a bit hardened. What can you do?

Never left the US? That's impossible, as they cannot leave something that they've never been to. A significantly large number of them appear to not be from the USA.

This is indicated by things like slip ups such as the accidental use of Britishisms,

mistakes about basics like taxes (one said we have a federal sales tax, another said that Social Security comes straight out of our regular taxes, another thought that the Salvation Army was a military wing of the Catholic Church),

keeping Euro hours, not knowing if it's night or day here,

having no idea what's the name of the their state,

not aware of what life in the US is actually like (when all those illegals were being bused to NYC, one of them said that he was glad that finally New Yorkers learn what it's like to have immigrants move in. New York. NYC IS Immigrant City, 1/3 foreign born, 1/3 the children of foreigners, 1/3 2nd or more generation American born),

posting homespun anecdotes of foreign places but not of America (one posted quite a few about Australia, until I repeatedly pointed out the pattern. He's the same fella that didn't know melting pot New York City has been the gateway to immigrants to America since it was New Amsterdam. Something like 70% of all US citizens can trace their roots passing through here, if I got that right),

and overdosing with the overtly overt peppering of everything with "our" and "we" and "us" (Americans).

The Toronto Trucker Convoy Protest was particularly hilarious, as tons of these United Statians who don't know the name of the state they supposedly live in knew who Kendrick Pemberton MP of New Brunswick was, or went on about some new Alberta beer law. Mind you, 2/3 of Americans polled literally cannot find Canada on a map. Not even I knew who Justin Trudeau was till I got active here.

There's actually a surprising number of Muslims here. Many won't come out and say it, for understandable reasons, but come October 7th, 2023, quite a few conflicted with their MAGA comrades. They were shocked as their comments sympathetic to prosecuted Palestinians were downvoted into lowrated oblivion, and they were attacked mercilessly by their former pals. At least one hardcore Trumper quit the site because of this.

Also on October 7th quite a few appeared to be Jewish but had never revealed it. Curious, as since I joined here in 2016, I'm one of ONLY 3 members I'm aware of to admit having Jewish blood, and I'm not 100% sure if my great grandfather was.

No joke. The ignorance on display would be hilarious, if it weren't so disturbing.

I mean. I already accepted this place is a loony bin lol.

Most sane people I know wouldn't waste their time even engaging with these people and would actually get angry with me if I even told them I was spending time trying to engage with these people. But I guess I'm too nice or too weird. They hate basically everything (in the name of Jesus) and don't believe in any kind of science or logic so you can't reason with them no matter how many links you provide.

Trump club. What can you do? They voted for a narcissistic lunatic. And here I am trying to reason with people who voted for a lunatic and hoping they see a shred of reason...

It's only half the country. Half the most powerful country on earth lol.

Like, I can spend hours providing links to every single claim they make trying to make sure every link is a credible source, and they'll just respond in 2 minutes saying: "Not convinced, libtard, Not convinced."

I can only do so much lol. I mean, I guess I have better things to do than educate people who refuse to be educated.

Catch: they get to vote.

Technically, a little less than a third. I wonder what the 90 million eligible voters who didn't think of this.

Well if they couldn't even be f**ked to vote, then f**k them. They are the problem.

They're literally the reason democracy doesn't work. F**k those people.

I have zero sympathy. We should have compulsory voting.

But this time, without the slavery.

smh, you know?

If you don't vote, you don't get [to complain].

That simple.

Even if both options are shit, as they usually are, at least vote. If you vote, you might be voting for 1 of 2 shit options. If you don't vote, you get NOTHING.

It's still a shit system and not really democratic. But at least vote.

FPTP is bullshit. Most sensible democracies ditched that system.