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This used to be a fun community but now it's flooded by politics...
After November it should become less. It’s unfortunate that American politics are so meme-worthy right now, but when one of the candidates is a raging sociopathic senile narcissist, it’s going to be hard to avoid.
It'll definitely continue until the inauguration at least.
Yeah, I'm not exhaling until like February... There's no guarantee that winning this election is actually winning this election...
There's a very real possibly that Trump loses the popular vote, loses the electoral college vote, and still "wins" because shithead propagandized Karens filled important election official positions in states that really matter... They'll refuse to certify and create a condition where the votes go to states as representation, giving GOP the boost they need since even though land can't vote, they have more "red" land than "us."
Have you heard of Twitter before? And beyond this being expected, I'll never understand people who want to go through life with blinders on
Some people are less interested because they're not American.
When America gets particularly aggressive, nobody is safe.
You might not realize it, but American politics have an effect on the rest of the world all the time
As a non-American I really hope America doesn't go fascist
Blinders? Really??
It doesn't matter what a candidate says at some rally somewhere, what matters is who wins the election.
Following politics right now isn't productive, because it's just a bunch of mud-slinging both directions. In this case, this "gaffe" isn't a gaffe, it's just him talking about events in different parts of the country to make a broader point about immigration. The discourse we have shouldn't be about trying to make Trump look like he has dementia (doesn't seem like it?), but showing how his policies are absolutely ridiculous. In this case, he said a small town in Pennsylvania had a 2000% increase in immigration, which sounds like instead of having 1 person come to town, they had 20. Or more likely, instead of having an average of 1 person every 10 years, they had 2 people in one year. We should be calling out that BS, not making up stories about him forgetting where he is, that's not productive at all.
Maybe have a bi-weekly post about current poll numbers and any interesting policy statements. But boosting posts that take statements out of context to pat our own backs is stupid.
The person I replied to implied they don't want to see anything about politics. They are going to have a bad time on the Internet. Always. But especially now.
I'm pretty sure that was in reference to this community, which is usually about memes and whatnot. I'm guessing they still keep tabs on politics, just in other venues, like on the actual news or political communities.
Yeah, but like I said, twitter was never ever non-political. So even if we narrow the scope to only this community, their comment implies unrealistic expectations.
Its called whitepeopletwitter... Politics is all that the name could entail.
Memes follow hot topics. Election is a hot topic. Nothing more to it really. Alt theory: One dude does well with, "Trump bad", everyone else decides to give the people what they want because muh meaningless internet points.
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