Brutkey

Rich Puchalsky ⩜⃝
@richpuchalsky@mastodon.social

I have friends and acquaintances from the UK, but I'm unable to see why I'm supposed to have broad sympathy for the people of the UK when they brought this on themselves by voting for a right-wing party that is apparently the left-most of the right-wing parties that have any chance of winning. Democracies are not safe from the people's will and if it's a consistent over time bad democracy then it's probably a bad people, as my own people in the US are a bad people.

https://www.thejournal.ie/uk-government-advises-people-to-delete-old-photos-and-emails-as-england-faces-water-shortfall-6788643-Aug2025/?utm_source=shortlink

Rich Puchalsky ⩜⃝
@richpuchalsky@mastodon.social

I recognize that the US democracy, for example, has been scientifically proven to be only responsive to the wealthiest people's concerns, but this is also the fault of the people. Why do people still defend the system? Why is resistance in the US still focused around "we have to get it back to how it was before Trump"?

Because people broadly don't have any political commitments other than are they getting theirs.