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Slightly different approaches (startrek.website)
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[+] -11 points 2 years ago* (4 children)

Americans are not the caricatures of evil and malice you seem to think we are.

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  • [–] 48 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    You are currently debating whether hospitals can let women die instead of performing abortions

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  • [–] 18 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    It's painful to admit, but American politicians do not actually represent Americans. Over 80% of us believe abortion should be legal under some if not all circumstances. We are being held hostage by an ignorant minority.

    https://news.gallup.com/poll/321143/americans-stand-abortion.aspx

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    If your politicians don't represent the people, what the heck are they doing?

    Or, why do your people still vote for them?

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Our democratic process is heavily flawed. The electoral college distorts the relative power votes so that less populated states have more power.

    Also, less than half of eligible adults vote, and those that do are disproportionately conservative boomers.

    Only about 20% of the population voted for trump. Everyone else either didn't care, didn't think he could win, or didn't want him to win.

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  • [–] -1 points 2 years ago*

    You're hastily summarizing some stupid political hit piece as the totality of what everyone in the country thinks. That's incredibly lazy thinking. What country are you from where everyone thinks the same exact way and the news accurately reports it?

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  • [–] 17 points 2 years ago

    Evil and malicious? Of course not. Mislead by a tailor-made Christian cult that always supports whatever the cult leader thinks is important? Literally nothing more American than that. We have a state that was founded for that propose. The largest, consistent voting block in America is fueled by exactly this.

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