It can be. Even just taking a nude photo of your own body as a minor is a crime in the US.

But that would include Trump so also not happening.

I didn’t mean it as an attack on you or anything, was just referring to the “5% is enough to tip the vote”. These people won’t vote differently even we do get to have a halfway “normal” election.

You’re giving the average person too much credit. Majority of people are genuinely incapable of either learning a lesson or applying the lesson elsewhere. Like sure they may now see some bad results of their vote and may regret it but they’re not actually internalizing any of it, they’re not working on themselves to be less susceptible to authoritarianism or to break to down any of the bullshit they believed on the way to making that vote they “regret”.

Look man, we have a right wing party and an ultra far right wing party…1/3 of us think the right wing party is so far left it’s either communist or “national socialist” and majority of the rest of us consider that right wing party to be reasonably left/progressive. You really can’t figure out where we lean ideologically?

I’m not a Democrat and I sure as hell don’t support Israel…what are you even talking about? The 1/3 thing is a consistent split throughout history across the globe, I’m not just talking about Israel or our right wing terrorist party and our super ultra right wing terrorist party.

You’re being too lenient. It’s not just Republicans, they’re only 1/3 of the population, the even bigger issue is the “moderate” and “apolitical” people that make up another 1/3…these people will loudly oppose anything and everything but blatant extreme right wing authoritarianism, in fact they’ll get more upset about the final 1/3 of the population that’s against authoritarianism than they will ever get at literal dictators.

Remember during the 2024 election when Musk literally cried on stage at a Trump rally while he was begging people to vote for Trump because “if Trump loses I will get locked in prison”.

Yeah, Doge annihilating every enforcement and investigation organization in the government makes a lot more sense with that info, right?

We have a right wing party and an ultra far right wing party, neither of them will ever allow a left wing progressive into power.