• IninewCrow@lemmy.ca
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    1 day ago

    Everyone always jokes about the French protesting everything … yet they’re the ones with better worker rights, better social benefits, better public health, better wages … meanwhile, the US never has mass protests and they have the worst worker rights, low wages, low taxes for the rich, high taxes for the poor, no public health care and few supports for the poor yet the country has the wealthiest people in the world.

    There seems to be a pattern and the French figured it out a couple hundred years ago but the Americans haven’t.

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      9 hours ago

      I don’t know much about French history, but I’ve always wondered why oppressors would choose to oppress in a country known for actively overthrowing oppressors.

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      1 day ago

      When France had issues similar to the USA, people in charge completely lost their heads… Literally

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      24 hours ago

      Also the average French person understands how democracy works, with paper ballots and checks.

      Americans tend to blindly trust any old oligarch putting up software to vote on. And are incapable of introspection on the matter.

      The two systems are not the same. Like comparing religion and science.

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          2 hours ago

          Yes I agree, but ten years of me being in favor of paper ballots has shown me there are cultural roadblocks in the USA. While some states do have paper ballots, others never will unless this is forced on them.

          The concept of blindly trusting vote counting on systems impossible to understand are as American as apple pie, patriotism, and the 4th of July.

          It’s not political and cannot be solved by rational argument

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            2 hours ago

            It’s easier for an admin or owner of a closed source computer system to stuff tens of thousands than it is to stuff one ballot.

            In the uk, ballot boxes are watched by volunteers including school children.

            The thing is, in the USA, the exit polls ( where people stand outside and ask how people voted) are significantly off in many states, causing most USA news to not use that in predicting national elections. That is significant in the multi hundred year history of the practice and democracies world wide.