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    • taking the quality of political discourse from not great to flinging excrement at each other

    • intentionally dividing society, making the two sides more hostile toward each other and making one part scapegoat for the other, to the point of overusing the word ‘traitor’

    • gerrymandering done so extensively that he had to resort to explaining the problems with his very own creation to his voters, because the system magnifies the differences, giving you a 2/3 majority of the seats even by just winning 52%/40% (hence the radical change from government 2/3 to opposition 2/3 over one term).

    • environmental damage to several areas due to covering up the failure of safety measures around various, newly built battery factories. Cadmium, cobalt and similarly dangerous substances seeping into the soil and groundwater.

    • health care system neglected and severely underfunded (soap, toilet paper and/or seats missing from hospitals, workers underpaid, air con not working during the peak summer heat, staffing issues, etc.)

    • education system kept underfunded and dumbed down to get more low skilled workers for the industry

    There might be more, but all of the above will take several years (possibly >4 years) to undo, and global economy isn’t helping, either - all this after stealing stellar amounts of money and leaving an empty treasury for the next government. I don’t have high hopes for anyone trying to steer this back from disaster under just one term.













  • Dicska@lemmy.worldtoAutism@lemmy.worldI do this
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    6 months ago

    I might not be in this picture, however, way too many times I get something similar where I can actually pinpoint why it reminds me of something seemingly unrelated, and it’s like 3-5 conceptual jumps away. It’s way too complicated and boring to explain, but it’s also awkward if I just say they are related.

    For example, someone talking about ice hockey, which reminds me of Robin’s character from How I met your mother, or when she made a music clip called ‘Let’s go to the mall’, which reminds me of how sad it is that malls are not (that much of) a thing anymore. Do I explain how I remembered this story of a repurposed mall? Of course not, that would be silly. Do I just say it was an association chain? Nah. Is it awkward? It is.