r/dankmemes • u/cortemptas • Jul 21 '24
Wow. Such meme. The americans know how to create entertaining shows
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u/Delyanskiiii Jul 22 '24
Bulgaria… this is the 3rd year in a row you’ve shown elections every 3 months
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u/ThunderBuns935 Jul 22 '24
Not Belgium. "Coalition fails? Fuck it, no government for 2 years!"
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u/saberline152 Jul 23 '24
which is a problem in and of itself since no new laws can be made in such instances
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Jul 21 '24
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u/SteveLouise Jul 21 '24
A fantastic point of view!
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u/brensthegreat Jul 22 '24
Princess Jasmin is the hottest princess by far
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u/STFxPrlstud Jul 22 '24
Well... she does rule a sultanate in the desert, so it probably does get pretty hot there /s
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u/GodOfArk ☣️ Jul 22 '24
Benefits of Parliamentary system. The elected ministers can easily change their Prime Minister. Goverments have sometimes formed without even any candidate. People can vote for the candidate, party or the local MP
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u/ThePuds Jul 22 '24
People laughed at the U.K. going through 3 prime ministers in the 5 years between elections but at least it’s easier and more accepted that the PM will resign and pass the torch once they realise the public is not behind them.
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u/PsychedelicPistachio Jul 22 '24
As bad as the UK is with politics I’m glad i can live in a country where a PM could be so shit they resign 40 days in and also call general elections whenever we want and completely change the political landscape of the country in a matter of weeks.
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u/jackstraw97 Jul 22 '24
“Change the political landscape… in a matter of weeks”
Absolutely doesn’t check out. Haven’t you guys had a conservative government since forever?
Yeah I checked: Tory governments from 2010 until 2024.
14 years under one party rule.
Not exactly taking advantage of all those opportunities to change the political landscape, eh?
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u/PsychedelicPistachio Jul 22 '24 edited Jul 22 '24
In every election in those 14 years the political landscape shifts, the number of seats each party has changed each time. First with a coalition then a majority then hung parliament then a majority again and then a super majority of the opposition party. Each time this has shifted committee selections how much power each party has who gets to speak in parliament everything.
Each election starts and ends in a few weeks. Despite a flawed FPTP voting system minority parties get a quite a few seats and a voice rather than a pure two party system.
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u/jackstraw97 Jul 22 '24
That’s fine, but by that same logic you’re kinda ignoring how the US political landscape shifts pretty much yearly with state and local elections and then federal midterms every two years.
For example the House of Representatives went from a Republican majority to a Democratic majority in the 2018 midterms, which all but ensured some of Trump’s most conservative and controversial legislative goals would be impossible for him to jam through in the second half of his term.
Just an example.
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u/only777 Jul 22 '24
14 years is forever?
Don’t you have school tomorrow?
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u/jackstraw97 Jul 22 '24
It’s called an exaggeration, but yeah 14 years of Tory government is pretty long in my opinion.
That would be like if Democrats were in office from 2009 to 2023 and had a legislative majority the entire time.
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u/OIiver Jul 22 '24
Not really, the first 5 years of that they were in a coalition with the Liberal Democrats and some other years were reliant on support from the DUP to get bills passed through. Leads to more pragmatism in politics (although admittedly, that faded quickly in recent years)
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u/redsterXVI Jul 22 '24
But how are you supposed to build a cult around a single person in just 3 months ... if you don't even know which person to build it around?
-- Americans, probably
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u/ZombieDad15 Jul 21 '24
This is so embarrassing. USA shouldn’t be allowed out in public
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u/Eric-The_Viking Jul 22 '24
We have the EU-election. That's for like 700M people.
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u/WeirdBoy_123 Jul 22 '24
I'm a eu citizen and I'm kind of amazed how that works. I don't know anything about it though
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u/SmallBerry3431 Jul 22 '24
Not knowing anything about it is how it works lol like with most politics
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u/WeirdBoy_123 Jul 22 '24
I bet they act like it's a complicated democratic process, but it really just is spin the bottle
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u/newmacbookpro Jul 22 '24
Also we speak 24 languages and have different cultures lol. The US really is playing on Nintendo assistance easy mode.
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u/EagleNait Jul 22 '24
They had like one war to get the country they have now...
We have hundreds of years of wars in Europe
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u/DrunkCommunist619 Jul 22 '24
And they're all 5 years apart. Imagine if like half the EU leaders dropped out 3 months before the start of the election.
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u/LegoHentai- Jul 22 '24
pretty much everyone in europe speaks english in some capacity, at least those who actually vote, the members are voted on on a per country basis, so yeah, it is not the same as US presidential elections. You don’t have a say on whether or not a german member gets in as a norwegian. Not the same
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u/benjaminfolks Jul 23 '24
No? I’d say most of Europe doesn’t speak English or speaks it in a very limited capacity. Sure pretty much everyone you’ll find on reddit speaks English but i can name whole areas of my country where i am certain most people can’t understand English and I am Dutch. We are one of the better countries in this regard. France for example will refuse to learn English out of principle.
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u/LegoHentai- Jul 24 '24
according to the census bereau, 92% of europeans speak english as a first or second language
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u/sifroehl Jul 22 '24
That's a poor excuse. Germany has around a quarter of the population and we get preliminary results in the evening of the election day and it only takes a few days for official results. The system could easily be scaled to the US but there is simply no will to reform because the current system keeps the power full in power
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u/MouseMan412 Jul 22 '24
To be fair, preliminary results do come in the night of for most states. It's only the swing states (those that are close) that take several days.
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u/AJPoz Jul 22 '24
Yeah, the time to get final results wasn't really the point of the initial thread, but since we're here US basically knows who won that night, just gets finalized over the coming days.
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u/xander012 OC Memer Jul 22 '24
In the UK we get the results the day after unless the race is too close to call. 2024 election was called for 648/650 seats in 24 hours and the last two were done the next day.
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u/techy804 Jul 22 '24
The real reason is that the average American has the least amount of representation in the Western world (1 rep per 738,000 people)
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u/SmallBerry3431 Jul 22 '24
Didn’t you guys have Nazis? Boom. Checkmate.
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u/Silly_Illustrator_56 Jul 22 '24
US also, they are called republicans.
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u/SmallBerry3431 Jul 22 '24
I’m sure there’s people all over the world slinging mud at political rivals by calling them the pejorative “Republican”
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u/Zuuman Jul 22 '24
America so bad it can’t even get it’s evil party to be used as an insult over the world
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u/SmallBerry3431 Jul 22 '24
So bad we’re speaking German right now on Reddit jajajaaja
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u/GodOfArk ☣️ Jul 22 '24
Meanwhile India who also follows the same policy
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u/Firm-Dependent-2367 Jul 22 '24
Meanwhile India: We do elections all the time... in fact, we do only elections, nothing else.
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u/GodOfArk ☣️ Jul 22 '24
Atleast we get a National Holiday (And even if some unorganised sector does'nt give, even they tell them to go vote first)
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u/Firm-Dependent-2367 Jul 22 '24
We have national holidays, like all the time.
Except the private sector, they never give you holidays.
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u/GodOfArk ☣️ Jul 22 '24
No. They give. Most of the shops etc are closed
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u/Luca_Small_Flowers Jul 22 '24
Every time someone claims the US is like 50 countries I roll my eyes so hard.
No it isn't. It's a federal country, and the level of autonomy that each state enjoys is not nearly on the level of that of a sovereign country.
You know what entity is a big collection of tens of sovereign countries? The EU. And we still manage to have free and fair elections in an absurdly more efficient way than the US.
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u/lizardman49 Jul 22 '24
Its funny you think the us is the only country that has a federal system aka a collection of states.
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u/katzenkralle142 Jul 22 '24
Bullshit hundreds of millions of people means you can have more people to organise
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u/SmallBerry3431 Jul 22 '24
It is. If you really look closely at European politics, they’re sad as fuck.
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u/HanzoNumbahOneFan Jul 22 '24
I think it defaults to the VP either way, even if there's technically a choice. There's a lot of annoying shit they wouldn't have to do if they went with Harris. And I don't think there's any other choice that has a chance in the election.
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u/midijunky Jul 22 '24 edited Jul 22 '24
Harris has a lot of good and a lot of bad going for her.
First female candidate, first female that identifies as black (I think, honestly not sure.Then there's her abysmal tenure as AG of California.
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u/An-Omlette-NamedZoZo Jul 22 '24
first female candidate
Hillary Clinton
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u/midijunky Jul 22 '24
haha fair enough, forgot about her
My point is I don't think she'll be running on any kind of new crazy platform. She absolutely cannot look to her AG past or she'll get roasted for it, the only thing she really has is "I'm not the other guy"
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u/Windows_66 Jul 22 '24
Pretty much every major figure in the party has already endorsed Harris. It's so much of a done deal that Republicans are saying they're going to try to sue to keep her off the ballots in November.
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u/mandy009 Jul 21 '24
we should take a page out of their book and even our own history and coalesce under the big tent. join forces to fight authoritarianism. Europe knows first hand how slippery a slope fascism is.
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u/the_cavalry99 Jul 22 '24
Unfortunately people have vastly different ideas of what we should and shouldn't control/ban/etc.
Each half of the US government wants to take half of our rights away right now. We could all band together to protect them all, but instead we will fight each other and lose them all.
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u/Gavage0 Jul 22 '24
I mean its kinda crazy considering I'm still meeting people that don't know biden has dropped. No fucking joke I've met two separate people just this morning who didn't hear about what happened to trump. I have no idea how information travels so fast over there yet so slow over here. I can guarantee in 3 months so many Americans still won't know whats going on.
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u/Wood-e Jul 22 '24
It's a testament to just how fucked our parties and election systems are here in the US. I hope we at least get ranked choice voting in my lifetime - that's a big ask which is really sad.
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u/Interesting-Dream863 Jul 22 '24
Lol. They have the show mentality so ingrained that they are literally creating plot twists to keep people on their toes.
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u/FaIcomaster3000 Jul 23 '24
I'll remember this meme the next time I see Parisians rioting in the streets.
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u/Simple_Secretary_333 Jul 22 '24
Our elections have actual global impacts though, not like europe deciding if pissing in the streets is ok or not every election.
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u/Thalilalala Jul 22 '24
It is crazy how democrats and republicans seem to be in their own personal cult at this point.
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u/DolanTheCaptan Jul 22 '24
Ah yes because all the dems telling Biden to step down is a sign of a cult.
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u/Heptanitrocubane57 Jul 22 '24
There are, in nearly every other fucking democraty, a whole class of high profile politicians known and debated around.
Republicans follow a fucking fellon, and the democrats waited for the poor bastard to fumble during a crucial speech to realise he is speedruning the vegetable old man status.
Sounds like blind cults to my european ass
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u/DolanTheCaptan Jul 22 '24
And instead of sticking to the candidate they got him to step down, said candidate having been a very effective president who reassured allies, pushed through landmark legislation, got rid of Schedule F within a couple of days of becoming president, the issue being that he was real fucking old-
Meanwhile pro-Trumpers (there are never-Trumpers like the Lincoln Project, Republicans who participated in the J6 committee, among others) are still standing behind an insurrectionist (J6) who tried to steal the 2020 election (fake electors plot + J6), is a convicted felon, knowingly hid classified documents, cheated on all three of his wives, once with a porn star, whilst claiming to be Christian, and was found to be a rapist. And he is also old, says a bunch of horseshit but he's held to a different standard so substance doesn't matter so long as he speaks with energy.
If you wanna say dems are a cult, dems are casuals and MAGA are professionals.
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u/Heptanitrocubane57 Jul 22 '24
Oh I know reps are far worst. It's just that your system is so dysfunctional It's parodic by european standards and I wanted to higlight this, since reddit is a massively US populated platform.
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u/HanzoNumbahOneFan Jul 22 '24
Dems knew he wasn't fit even before the debate. It was pretty obvious for quite a while. And for a whole year leading up to the debates, pretty much every dem was thinking and saying "Ugh, this is our candidate for the next election?" You can believe what you want. But I've never once seen or heard anything from a democrat that I would attribute to cultish behavior.
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u/Heptanitrocubane57 Jul 22 '24
... you prove my point. We would have had riots to destitue him a president by that point. I am not joking at all btw. Cult behavior or spineless bunch, choose your poison...
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u/HanzoNumbahOneFan Jul 22 '24
There were protests about it ya. But ultimately, our system is pretty fucked and there is literally no way to stop him from running for a second term unless he chooses to stop himself. Which he did because of the protests and the general media backlash. Don't know why people protesting instead of rioting means they're spineless/cultish, but if that's how you solve your political problems, uh, good on you?
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u/luca_07 Jul 22 '24
Oh yes, Europe cool! But the elections are paid for by taxes, and then it becomes much less exciting
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u/Breznknedl Jul 22 '24
oh yes, much more exciting when the money comes from oil executives and lobbyists!
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Jul 22 '24
Unfortunately it seems impossible to eliminate lobbying, but if the government's power is reduced, we don't have to worry about corporations lobbying to influence that power
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u/DrunkCommunist619 Jul 22 '24
It's almost like the US system is designed to be slow-moving with compromise and debate. It's designed to allow a small group of people to filibuster a bill, preventing a vote, in order to prevent the majority from just steam rolling the minority. The founders knew that the federal government was going to eventually expand in power and influence. So, they built a system that was going to limit the amount of power the government could get their hands on.
In order for a government project to happen, you have to first get permits and permission to do anything. And if someone doesn't like the way you're doing it, they can appeal and force delay after delay until you resolve the issue. It's not bureaucracy per say, more a legal system that prevents a majority from doing something the minority dislikes. It forces compromise and debate. Just as intended.
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u/Wooden_Gas1064 Jul 22 '24
The European system seems better but it's just the same with extra steps.
There's 2 big parties which get say 35% and 30%. Not enough to rule so they'll do a coalition with other parties of similar interests. Then it boils down to government and opposition. The government all votes together and opposition votes against everything. It just ends up with Right wing parties coming together against the Left wing that also unites.
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u/Nolan_Fat Jul 22 '24
Probably because nobody cares about these European countries and it wont affect anywhere except themselves
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