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I’m getting 2018 vibes again, where so many people got excited, hanging on to the edge of their seat, wanting to see a functioning congressional justice system.

Legend says some are waiting until this day.

Then in 2021, people were sure there would a restorative trend to heal many of the crimes and corruption. Lead by a new president.

But there were some complications.

Now it’s 2026. Things will surely happen now. I have a good feeling. It is fine

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  • [–] 9 points 1 day ago*

    That is hard to predict if a democratic president will be better, other than a sense of national normality. There are some weird national changes I do not understand; and future democratic governments may decide to ignore or even embrace.

    The Trump years did not occur out of a vacuum. There are very real forces that are shaping a collapse of the federal government, beyond who is in the white house

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    Probably best Democrats can do is some compromise related to killing more non Americans in exchange for a few more years for ACA, with an expiration date set to be renewed about when the gop comes back into power

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  • [–] 2 points 4 days ago

    If your state is counting ballots in a way you do not understand, it’s not democracy but faith it is accurate. Many smart writers over the last two centuries have eloquently explained how faith has no place in a democracy

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  • [–] 16 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    Most democracies do not use voting machines because it’s impossible to trust anyone with creating and maintaining it.

    If there is a way to change the vote tallies, then clever people will use it to enrich themselves.

    The only way to circumvent most cheating is by paper ballots recounted manually in front of representatives of all candidates: recounted as many times as asked; and the ballots must be kept in public view until a winner is declared.

    Putting the ballots into any other device negates some or all of the above.

    And I would only have to say this in American political posts. But Americans are married to voting in ways that cannot be verified, except in some states. So most likely what’s seen as common sense in most of the world is either ignored or viewed with suspicion here.

    Ask any student in the uk though; and I’m just echoing what has been taught in school to young children

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    Over the years, many who read the news in the USA were surprised to find a magazine, ostensibly for teenagers, became one of the last bastions of mainstream press resistance.

    A holdout from the earlier purges at other organizations, it was silenced this week.

    I find this noteworthy USA news because it helps chronicle the ongoing collapse of the commercial press in the country.

    Teen Vogue has now been folded into Vogue, and all politics reporters, all Black women and all trans people working there were fired on Monday (11/3/25) morning.

    That is, none of the people who made Teen Vogue a surprisingly effective civics communication vehicle remain with the magazine.

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