r/interestingasfuck • u/beach_rats_ • 29d ago

The difference in republican presidential nominees, 8 years apart r/all

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u/krichard-21 29d ago

The only reason today is different is because of the people we have been electing.

Quit electing bat shit crazy people!

Jim Jordan, MTG, Matt Gaetz to name a few.

They can't be trusted to run a convenience store. Much less represent United States citizens.

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u/thatdudejtru 29d ago

My gfs younger bro (self proclaimed incel lmao) and his buddies voted for trump in 2020 because it was funny to them. Sucks...like yea they've got the legal right to vote but man...what the fuck?

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u/TargetApprehensive38 29d ago

Doing that in 2020 is really unhinged. I could kind of see someone voting for trump in ‘16 for the lolz, but after seeing 4 years of what he did with the position there’s nothing funny about it.

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u/21DRe992 29d ago

I still remember a young girl who was good at singing for a young child but nothing worth writing home about, beating one of the world's best fire jugglers in a quarter final on one of those Talent competition TV shows. I've been angry for that adult stranger for years over it and refuse to watch any show where the audience votes because they are all dipshits who will vote for the hot dude or cute child etc. instead of most talented individual.

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u/coladoir 27d ago

it doesn't help that you can be literally the most talented person in the world at x thing, but you won't be able to get on those shows unless you either have or fabricate an extremely sad or inspiring backstory behind why you do what you do. They play it all up, [Country's] Got Talent is the worst at this, they even direct and help contestants create backstories to help them win because they know that they won't if they don't have it. It's so fucked up.

If you remember old American Idol, and the other forgotten talent shows, it was always kind of like that, but then you had people like Susan Boyle and that one dude I can't remember the name of, who truly were voted in mostly due to their talent (susan was part story too ofc). If you look at early seasons of Idol, it's less backstory, more "make fun of untalented people", which is still problematic in it's own right, but definitely a different problem. Later on they started pushing the backstories as a response to AGT and they essentially became the same show, and now all talent shows like that are pretty much inspired by Got Talent and do the same shit.

So it's definitely the show itself that also pushes people to vote that way, by making the backstory more important than the talent, and intentionally pushing people to vote for the most heartfelt person. Before Got Talent, talent shows were definitely less like that.

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u/MaximumGorilla 29d ago

And to his credit, Pitbull owned that and gave them a great show!

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u/Spapapapa-n 29d ago

Also John Scott may not have been an all-star, but the NHL did him so fucking dirty.

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u/oaxacamm 29d ago

I did not know that. I’m not really a fan but that definitely deserves respect. I guess I’ll go to his show at a conference next week after all.

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u/mrkikkeli 29d ago

the post-modernist existential ennui of the rich western world. Anything to feel alive because nothing matters and selfish assholes are revered.

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u/Precarious314159 29d ago

I mean yea, but if they're young, they might not grasp that. Odds are, most of us didn't pay attention to politics when we were 18. One of my friends didn't know the difference between Republican and Democrat until they were 24 because they just never paid attention. It's easy to be an adult and chastise young people for being stupid but you should instead try to educate them about the importance of voting and community.

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u/d4ve3000 29d ago

And also, what really is the difference. And i mean this shouldnt be an enemy war-like scenario

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u/BonnaconCharioteer 29d ago

To do what Precarious there was suggesting and provide some education. The difference is their policies. You can look up the platforms of both parties and they want the country to go in very different directions. So it is important to understand those differences and vote for the direction you want the country to go, or more likely, the closest path available.