Don't blame me, I voted for the other guy. (Politics General)

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>Believing Adam Lankford and his sweet little lies
 
Also, I’m noticed a trend where the media covers shootings done by “normal people” differently to shootings done by “criminals.” If you’re black and kill 4 people with a gun in a gang shootout, the news media will barely blink; but if you’re a “troubled individual” who’s having a really bad day and kill 4 people with a gun, the news media thinks that “we really need to have a national conversation about gun violence.”
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@Ebalosus  
People don’t empathize with criminals, they do with random people caught in the way of someone on a “senseless” murder spree. Media react to this the same way a suicide bombing in Kabul is treated differently than one in London: familiarity gets a reaction, gets people to not switch the channel, gets clicks and ad views, etc.
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I really want to see the media attempt to discuss in a mild manner, with token gestures to both sides holding a round table on live TV about whether or not the US is the Great Satan; and should be destroyed with a group of anointed experts the same way they would if a self-proclaimed incel rams a truck down the side-walk.
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It’s safe to say whatever major backlash that the Dem’s were supposed to face for launching an impeachment probe has not materialized.
 
An increasing number of people support the probe, and a recent major survey showed that 70% of respondents believed what Trump did was wrong. Support for impeachment sits around 49-52%, and a plurality of voters are in favor.
 
Trumps favorablity rating remains underwater, and the recent string of major losses has GOP morale at an all time low. On the flip side, Dems now hold a considerable enthusiasm edge going into 2020.
 
Dissecting the recent GOP losses has sent up major red-flags in the GOP. They’re being eviscerated in the suburbs and the increasingly affluent (and Dem leaning) exurbs. A few suburban counties in Louisiana that normal back republicans broke for Dems this go round. And Republicans lost a city council majority in VA that they’ve held for several decades, with one of the winners being the women that was fired for flipping off Trump.
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No, they aren’t. We recently found out that 3D-printed magazines are good enough to be used in select-fire RONI G19s (causing a hilarious amount of butthurt amongst the anti-gunners). Freedoms are easier to preserve (if you’re a constitutionalist), the workers can stick it to the hated bourgeoisie (if you’re more of the socialist/communist mindset), and LGBTQ+ folks no longer have to rely on the sometime variable reliability of the police when it comes to their safety. Things are definitely looking up.
 
In all seriousness, we’re living pretty comfortably all things considered, with the major problems we’re facing are almost wholey political ones.
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@Ebalosus
 
Well, save for dangerous climate issues, antibiotic resistance, and the ever present (and growing) threat of nuclear weapons.
 
Those are major problems that are in no way political, and very real.
 
But yes, you are right that all in all, we are doing much better now in many ways than we have at other points throughout history.
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Did you know that Spain and Portugal remained dictatorships after WW2? (Both regimes ended in 1975 and 1974 respectively).
 
Did you know Poetugal’s revolution out of dictatorship was managed by Maoists in the army.
 
Also Spain still has a king so it’s no democracy really. :^)
 
ax your king Iberios
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@AaronMk
But it was the king who did away with the dicatatorship and brought freedom and democracy back to the country.
 
You say that like it wasn’t the monarchy itself that benefited from the dictatorship of Franco, who re-installed the king and all his powers in his position while himself and the Falangists becoming the government. A process that was carried out because in the thirties, the Spanish people declared themselves a democratic republic and rejected the king, forcing him into exile. And you pretend that just because the King reinstalled democracy when the Falangist structure was falling apart anyways, while still retaining the position of the Head of State is itself a good thing, when monarchy as an institution in Spain is a direct result of the intervention of fascism by Franco.
 
We could be celebrating a truly democratic, Republican Spain. But that doesn’t exist now.
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@Ebalosus  
Yeah, I do think the world is mostly headed in a better direction, butt I’d lump readily available guns in with the setbacks Zincy listed below, not a cause.
 
 
@AaronMk  
We could also have a still Falangist Spain too. Or at least, one that stuck with it longer or ended it more bloodily. If we’re going to start second-guessing history, that is.
 
And looking at the US, it’s hard to see how republican democracies are somehow superior…
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