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>Especially in the current political climate I hope I do not have to explain how undesirable and dangerous that is. this is not the way to make a point that th
by fsckboy 1y ago
>Especially in the current political climate I hope I do not have to explain how undesirable and dangerous that is.
this is not the way to make a point that the other party will find persuasive.
- TechDebtDevin 1y ago[flagged]
- fsckboy 1y ago(I wish non-Americans wouldn't spend all their time tripping over themselves to try to insult Americans. If you didn't feel so insecure about yourselves and resentful of the success of others, you wouldn't feel such a need to justify your existence.) In this case, however, it's your poor English to blame. In English when you talk to another person, that other person can be called the other party. It's not an attitude, it's a very neutral term.
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- eru 1y agoWhat do you mean by 'the other party'? Many places have more than two parties.
- wkat4242 1y agoYeah I'm glad I don't live in a two party state. The zero sum game politics that results in rips the country apart. You see this in the US and also in the UK (Brexit etc)
- sunaookami 1y agoIt's not better in countries with multiple parties where nearly everyone (every relevant party) wants authoritarianism in the name of "fighting hate speech".
- johnisgood 1y agoIt is all the same, under different names. Plus even in countries with multiple parties, it is usually only two parties that have a chance, but again, they usually (or always) have a similar (or the same) goals.
- wkat4242 1y agoNot really, in Holland we usually have a coalition of at least 3 parties in government. No one party is ever big enough to have a majority. And yes they are quite different. This makes coalitions difficult to form and very unstable but I still far prefer it over a two-party system.
- johnisgood 1y agoHere in Hungary we have many parties, but only two parties have the chance to win.
- riffraff 1y agoI assumed that meant "the other side of the conversation", e.g. "all parties involved".
- dguest 1y agoI assumed they meant Republicans/Trump, but it's a bit confusing because those parties aren't very popular in the EU: https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2025/06/11/confidence-in-trump/ https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2025/06/11/confidence-in-... whatever your political alignment, saying the situation in the US is problematic might sell pretty well in the EU.
- cptskippy 1y agoDon't be obtuse to make a point, the OP specifically stated they were in the United States.
- cwillu 1y ago“We have both kinds of music: country _and_ western”