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Comment by KingOfCoders

4 days ago

The majority of the country voted for this.

Trump won the electoral vote.

Trump asked why the US can't nuke other countries when it has so many nukes. Trump loves war ("department of war") loves bombing other countries - always has. That he is so eager to use nukes should frighten everyone.

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420official  4 days ago

I agree with the rest of your point but I dont think its factual to say the majority of the country voted for trump. 77m/343m or ~20% of the country voted for trump, though I'm sure this is what you meant to say.

tossandthrow  4 days ago

Especially in the US, this is a strawman. There is simply not enough granularity of choice that you can make voters accountable for every action Trump does.

  • stouset  4 days ago

    Trump was wildly transparent about what kind of person he is. In this case, you can and should.

  • KingOfCoders  4 days ago

    Guy: "Why do we have nukes if we don't use them?"

    Same Guy: "If Europe doesn't buy more weapons from us, Russia should invade Europe, torture, plunder and kill people and do their worst."

    People: "I guess I vote for that guy!"

    Guy randomly bombs Iran, Yemen, Nigeria, Venezuela, Iraq, Somalia and Syria - people "Huh? I didn't vote for this".

    • tossandthrow  4 days ago

      The US only has two parties and decisions are decoupled from the wishes of the people.

      It is already a stretch to call it a democracy - which is required to insist on democratic reasoning.

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    • m4nu3l  3 days ago

      I believe the problem with democracy is that it's affected by various problems analogous to the ones of markets, but often amplified.

      In this case, to me, it really seems a matter of extreme information asymmetry as you'd never see in a regular market.

      Does he actually mean those things, or is that some sort of joke? How do you even know? BTW, he didn't actually use Nukes, and I don't believe he will. On the other hand, he said he wanted to end wars and sounded like he was against starting new ones.

      I've seen people regretting voting for Trump because of tariffs, even though they supported tariffs in the first place. They had no idea that Trump's "tariff" would mean some blanket tariffs at those rates. They thought it was some small tariffs on "key industries".

      A further confirmation of the information asymmetry is that after a year, support for Trump is far below what would be needed to elect him.

      I'm not sure what the solution is.