I’m from Europe (Hungary) and I watched the first 20 minutes of the debate (with the intent of finishing the whole thing in one go) before turning it off while basically being on the brink of crying. The US presidents basically have as much say in my life as my own government (if not more) and even though I can’t vote for them, if I had to I’d be lost. Because it’s not that one is old and the other is crazy it’s a freaking Venn diagram of crazy RFK jr., demented Biden and then of course crazy and demented Trump. Seeing the debate and how these people basically can’t put two sentences after each other without breaking up is terrifying. And one of them will be voted into the most important office on the planet.
I mean it’s shit over here. We can choose between a guy who already stole half of our country, someone whose messy divorce somehow made him the most important member of the opposition and this other guy who stole the other half of the country before the current dude did. (And that’s just the tip of the iceberg). But maaan are we a lot better off than the world’s greatest country where two unsupervised parties get to point at the people you can vote into this ridiculously powerful position. And then they pick these guys.
We’re all going to die and I can’t even vote for whoever gets us killed, which is ultimately for the better. This way I can die with a clear conscience.
Just watched that episode for the first time and somehow it didn’t even occur to me
I hear that’s been an issue of debate in the Vatican since around the 70s and one of the cardinals is very keen on summoning a council to settle it.
Here in europe both are teached in elementary school.
The fact that my first reaction to this was shouting “fuck you” internally probably just reinforces the idea that short people get aggressive about their height.
Don’t get fooled, that’s called stockholm syndrome.
Who gives a shit about cars, give me my buttload of ports back!
One day I realized I developed a skill for correctly inserting the USB on first try and I’m in an existential crisis ever since.
Liberalism is the idea of giving people rights to assure their well-being. Liberalism doesn’t change, however it always finds new goals and with that new rights to secure for people. Once it secures a certain right it can be seen as integral to the ideology in the future and some of these rights are indeed the ones that make capitalism possible.
The weird thing is, without judging present day politics, is that historically something much like the opposite has been happening since the french revolution, since liberalism always selects new goals and the next generation of conservatives always try to (mostly unsuccesfully) preserve the state liberals already achived by the time these conservatives were born.
This feels like cosmic horror for some reason.
what do you mean “again”
They are both standing next to what we think could have been a three-thousand year old space-witch. I would say Obama is cock-precautious and Trump is cock-foolish.
Erről a “Kóvályogsz itt mint gólyafos a levegőben” jut eszembe.