News
Welcome to the News community!
Rules:
1. Be civil
Attack the argument, not the person. No racism/sexism/bigotry. Good faith argumentation only. This includes accusing another user of being a bot or paid actor. Trolling is uncivil and is grounds for removal and/or a community ban. Do not respond to rule-breaking content; report it and move on.
2. All posts should contain a source (url) that is as reliable and unbiased as possible and must only contain one link.
Obvious right or left wing sources will be removed at the mods discretion. Supporting links can be added in comments or posted seperately but not to the post body.
3. No bots, spam or self-promotion.
Only approved bots, which follow the guidelines for bots set by the instance, are allowed.
4. Post titles should be the same as the article used as source.
Posts which titles don’t match the source won’t be removed, but the autoMod will notify you, and if your title misrepresents the original article, the post will be deleted. If the site changed their headline, the bot might still contact you, just ignore it, we won’t delete your post.
5. Only recent news is allowed.
Posts must be news from the most recent 30 days.
6. All posts must be news articles.
No opinion pieces, Listicles, editorials or celebrity gossip is allowed. All posts will be judged on a case-by-case basis.
7. No duplicate posts.
If a source you used was already posted by someone else, the autoMod will leave a message. Please remove your post if the autoMod is correct. If the post that matches your post is very old, we refer you to rule 5.
8. Misinformation is prohibited.
Misinformation / propaganda is strictly prohibited. Any comment or post containing or linking to misinformation will be removed. If you feel that your post has been removed in error, credible sources must be provided.
9. No link shorteners.
The auto mod will contact you if a link shortener is detected, please delete your post if they are right.
10. Don't copy entire article in your post body
For copyright reasons, you are not allowed to copy an entire article into your post body. This is an instance wide rule, that is strictly enforced in this community.
view the rest of the comments
Yes. He won the majority. Your point is?
The plurality of people whose votes were counted*
Semantics. The fucker won 77 million votes - and if the USA have done their homework five years ago, he wouldn't be allowed to stand in the elections again.
The problem is we aren't educated on what fascism looks like in its infancy.
We're taught Hitler came out of nowhere and took Germany overnight.
History lessons are practically on fast forward.
No, the problem is that you aren't a democracy. There are multiple reasons for that but to mention the most relevant:
Democratically elected president should have more than 50% votes. If none of the candidates achieved that, there should be a second turn of the election with only two candidates. Trump won with less than 50% which is ridiculous. Electoral college is even more ridiculous.
Trump attempted a political putch four years earlier and should be in prison. Why isn't he? Because in the USA, the judiciary is political and not independent from the politics and politicians. This is contrary to the basic democratic principles.
Also, supplementary issues:
Trump was financed to large extent by Musk. Also other actors played their role, possibly with link to other countries. This is again not democratic (although this is world wide problem and not unique to the US).
USA electorate has an obsession over completly misunderstood "free speech". Freedom of speech is not a freedom to lie. Factual lies said by politicians to get votes are the same as lies said by salesmen to sell goods - and should be treated as the same, as fraudulent misrepresentation. Trump should be in prison solely for the lies he said to mislead the public (again, not just USA issue but much more prevalent in the USA than in other countries).
This comment would be super poignant if it wasn't for your reliance on the No True Democracy fallacy.
Are you a little bit slow?
Are you a bit of an asshole at best, and a stupid asshole at worst?
Am I going to block you now?
Hint: Those questions have the same answer.
Neither. Now, are you a little bit slow? Because you certainly make this kind of impression with your "no true democracy" comment, completly irrelevant to what I wrote.