Too bad we can’t gild people here, because this deserves it.

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Hmm…

It could be argued that the senate (also being unelected) is better at filling the role you ascribe to the GG. If anything it’s even better, since they don’t serve for a set term, and they have a much more involved legislative role.

Hell, Quebec still to this day hasn’t ratified the 1982 update. They kept using the notwithstanding clause for years until the supreme court unilaterally decided that since QC is part of Canada, the constitution applies there in practice despite them not signing it.

Oh, this is interesting, and it ties into the other comment about it being essentially antisocial behaviour.

I generally agree, but .io stands for “indian ocean”, which isn’t a country.

Thanks for this interesting and deeper take. I hadn’t made that link between individualism and this phenomenon, but it seems very plausible because we see less of this in countries that aren’t as antisocial.

It’s mindblowing to us non-Americans that such a large percentage of a purportedly first-world country can be so utterly stupid. I can’t imagine that things were this bad even just 20 years ago. Why are y’all so dumb?

what a majority of the population, including an overwhelming majority of your own base

Source for this? Polls I’ve seen suggest otherwise, but maybe you have access to data that others don’t.

Huh?

Serious question: what do you think publicly repudiating Israel would do for the democrats’ chances of willing the presidential election? It makes sense for them to say nothing publicly while privately trying to tie down those loose cannons.

People here constantly repeating this is so tiresome. Read this: https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/08/politics/bob-woodward-book-war-joe-biden-putin-netanyahu-trump/index.html

Counterpoint: .su still exists

I was wondering the same. It’s a very popular TLD, so you’d think they would grandfather it in as a generic (non-country) TLD like .net or whatever.

Hmm yes, all Israelis are fascists. That definitely isn’t dehumanizing an entire people or anything.

Lemmy users casually talking about wiping a country off the map:

Oh, they’re working, all right — but for who?

I assumed it was the equivalent of “dark enlightenment”.

Daily reminder:

I’m basing my POV less on anecdata and moreso on reading (Jonathan Haidt’s The Righteous Mind, uh, comes to mind). With that said, I can certainly imagine that things have pulled in the direction you describe since Trump, so perhaps those sources don’t reflect the current reality quite as much.