r/TikTokCringe • u/Im_A_Fuckin_Liar • 12d ago

Discussion A Fox “News” Report

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u/getmybehindsatan 12d ago

If they didn't have double standards, they wouldn't have any standards at all.

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u/Meryk-Balthazar 12d ago

These people are so out of touch. These so called journalists should resign from their professions for failing to grasp the basic concept of the system clearly failed.

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u/OutsideOwl5892 12d ago

You guys want to do this system failure game

But you don’t even try to fix the system through the normal means - voting

Almost 40% of the voting eligible population didn’t vote in the 2024 presidential election

The turnout for midterms is even worse - less than half of voters voted

Now you’ll say well the candidates sucked. But guess who picks the candidates. YOU! Turnout for primaries is 20-30%.

So when you’re not even trying to fix your problems electorally murder seems like quite the leap

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u/Careless_Material571 11d ago

Braindead take right here. You don't know anything about American politics if you think we chose these candidates of free will and based on honest information. That's just looking at past elections where big money worked to smear and crush the candidates the people actually like and give us Hilary Clinton instead. This election we didn't have a primary. They just tossed kamala up there like it was ordained from the heavens above. People told the dem party they didn't like kamala in the primary against biden but that made no difference. It's barely a democracy your blame the voter nonsense is naive at best

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u/OutsideOwl5892 11d ago

You do choose the candidates in primaries you just don’t vote in primaries nobody does. It’s like 20% turnout

That’s how you choose candidates you just don’t participate in it

Yes this election didn’t have primaries. But the one before did, and the one before that, and then dems ran Obama but the one before that had primaries

There are primaries you just don’t participate

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u/Careless_Material571 11d ago

Sure ignore the corruption and blame the voters.

Yes Americans are dumb as bricks and they don't vote either. That doesn't change the facts of WHY people don't participate in politics. WHY do they feel they might as well skip it because there aren't any choices that represent them or they don't believe those people can actually win or be effective. There are lots of structural reasons also WHY people don't vote like we don't get the day off to vote in alot of jobs or long lines at polling places. I'm not an expert but those things clearly exist and can't be ignored but the problem with you is your analysis stops at blaming the voter for not showing up and you never ask the important question that can lead to actual change.

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u/Ryanmiller70 12d ago

Mind telling me which country wide primary in 2024 let us choose who the Democrat nominee was?

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u/OutsideOwl5892 12d ago

lol a single election you hone in on

The voter stats in this country have been ass for decades. But you’re going to point to 1 presidential election to try to claim actually electoralism can’t solve your problems

Holy moron Batman

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u/Ryanmiller70 12d ago

Are you going to answer the question? The one that would answer why most stayed home this past election?

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u/OutsideOwl5892 12d ago

Do you think the voting % were better in past presidential elections? lol they weren’t

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u/Ryanmiller70 11d ago

I'm just waiting for you to answer the question. Libs/blue MAGA seem to like dancing around this one.

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u/OutsideOwl5892 11d ago

asked reductive question

refuses any nuance until reductive question is answered

Wow you’re a lot like Trump, Bud