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The fact that I know more about US politics than my own country’s politics shows what’s wrong with US politics and social media.

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I think it’s just a side effect to Lemmy doom-scrolling.

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It’s not just Lemmy doom-scrolling though.

Here’s an article about the upcoming US election in my native country’s national publication. There are others, I literally just searched for Trump on the front page.

This is not a publication trying to sell you doom and gloom either, they’re the least biased, most factual publication around these parts. Required by law to not hold a bias and also nationalized so there’s no profit motive for ragebait.

The US election is just considered important in many parts of the world. And to be fair, with the US being extremely important to NATO and Trump wanting to be done with NATO, aaaand many eastern-european countries being very much dependent on NATO to continue existing… You can see how Trump being elected could potentially affect tens if not hundreds of millions of people outside the US too.

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Honestly I feel like the U.S. being a bit more isolationist is something most Americans (and a lot of other countries) would be ok with.

America doesn’t need to be the world police anymore, it needs to handle its own obvious internal issues and let NATO/UN have bigger teeth for a few decades. Maybe divert some of the the military budget to schools and healthcare or something.

edit: for clarity

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or its a logical result of US about to elect a pedophile rapist who has been open about disintegrating democracy. For the second time. You don’t need to doom scroll to follow such a horrific development

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Totally.

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i think for me it’s “just” that I mostly use English parts of the internet

ok nvm the problem’s still there lol

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