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It's actually not that insane from the perspective of a local voter who has nothing to lose and has a miserable crime-ridden existence. It's not qualitatively
by Bakary 10y ago
It's actually not that insane from the perspective of a local voter who has nothing to lose and has a miserable crime-ridden existence.
It's not qualitatively different from disenfranchised workers voting for Trump. It's the nuclear option for people who have no way to profit from the existing system. It just so happens that life is much, much easier in the US so there is no need to consider actual violence when thinking about going nuclear.
- simplemath 10y agoNo, it's still insane.
- vixen99 10y agoUsing the word 'insane' does not contribute to the discussion in this context.
- sdoering 10y agoCalling it insanity is not only overly dismissive and chauvinistic, but also not helping in any way furthering understanding. If you want to solve a problem you have to understand it first and foremost. Just calling it insanity is therefore not only not helpful, but harmful as others might take up that world view and stop caring for a real solution. I do not have a solution, but am trying to understand how people can be so miserable (be it workers in US voting for Trump, German people voting AfD or people in the Philippines seeing this as a viable option/solution to their problem, when it probably even isn't such). I can understand being desperate and taking desperate measures. But killing? I am so not able to understand it - even while I am trying to find rational reasons/explanations.
- tankenmate 10y agoThe most dangerous person in the room is the one with nothing to lose.
- joe5150 10y agothis is not remotely like voting for Trump. and it doesn't "so happen" that life is easier in countries with functioning (if deeply flawed) justice systems than it is in ones where corruption and vigilantism rule; there are pretty good reasons for why that is.
- simbalion 10y agoIt's insane. The country will descend into chaos because the rule of law will be replaced with the rule of the gun, and the gangsters are better at that game. Also the president is probably headed for the Hague.