I’ll start. Een Soviet Russia:

  • computer hacks you.
  • tv watches you
  • car drives you
  • gun shoot you
  • neighbour hear you
  • music listens to you
  • alcohol drinks you
  • window smashes you

That’s all I got for now. Let’s have some more laughs at Russia’s expense.

'Slava!

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    1 year ago

    It seems that it’s due to the two-party system. When there are effectively only two parties, the opposition party needs to collect all the votes of those dissatisfied with the ruling party. Hence it develops positions contrary to the positions of the ruling party - whatever they are.

    Had the ruling party decreed that all eggs be broken on the smaller end, the opposition party would take a position that all eggs be broken on the bigger end, just to win the most of disagreeing electorate. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lilliput_and_Blefuscu

    And in the modern developed world, people often derive their opinions from social media - heavily influenced by Ruscist propagandists and populists. Hence the people who are dissatisfied with the current state of affairs easily pick up Ruscist or populist narratives. Especially since these narratives are simplistic and play on hate, greed or ignorance. And the only opposition party tries to win the votes of these people. In such a way, Ruscist and populist narratives make their way into opposition parties.

    IMHO, in the United States, the electoral reform would allow for more parties to compete, and thus would make the political discussion more multifaceted and meaningful: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electoral_reform_in_the_United_States