This type of thing goes through my head constantly. Im kinda surprised trump is even trying to hide epstein given how well just breaking laws and being openly corrupt has been for him/they/them.

    • eldavi@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      1 month ago

      because it doesn’t happen in the united states; alternative parties have significantly larger voter counts outside the united states and that forces the larger parties to appeal to voter concerns under a persistent threat of losing voters.

      the democrats and the republicans have no such threat and keep shifting to the right as a result since americans refuse to vote for anything besides democrats or republicans.

        • eldavi@lemmy.mlEnglish
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          1 month ago

          no country has been untouched by american intervention and that intervention has ensured that there are large powerful parties and small weaker ones.

          things get significantly better when those small parties gain power like has happened in mexico in the last decade. but other examples like argentina, will show that american intervention will once again “correct” the course of history when the american military starts bombing mexico under the guises of the “war on drugs” and “war on terrorism” and insist that they were targeting drug cartels like the isrealis were targeting hamas when they executed the last al jazeera correspondent in gaza.

            • eldavi@lemmy.mlEnglish
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              1 month ago

              oic, i thought your point was that voting for non-mainstream parties wasn’t effective and that’s why i brought up how mexico’s non-mainstream party has improved the lives of mexicans several fold when they were voted in almost a decade ago.