Why is racism so normalized on social media in 2025?

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Mnementh said:

RolStoppable said:

Cyran gave you the explanation why the USA's setup is a unique one. There's no easy way out for the American people.

I answered Cyran seriously, because I feel they are interested in a serious discussion.

You on the other hand put another idiotic lie on top: the idea of american exceptionalism. It is often used to paint americans as somehow superior, but you are not the first declaring americans as uniquely stupid: unable to break out of a two party misery pendulum like other countries.

The pendulum is that if people are fed up with one shitty party they elect the other, until they are fed up with them. But either way they don't escape the misery. So the misery pendulum. You declare americans are too stupid to break the cycle, you declare no escape from the misery. That is a lie and perpetuating this lie feeds into sustaining the two-party-system. As people fear the consequences of a third-party vote or resignate.

The situation is so bad that a murderer (Luigi Mangioni) is openly cheered on.

And yes, I know many hate americans enough to wish them not to escape this misery. As a non-american you have it easy to escape the misery. But I think differently. Besides the basic human decency for every human, I also think that this influences europe. Because enough dumb-dumb here want to emulate every bad policy from the americas. So a bad situation in the US over time leads to more boldness in proposing bullshit ideas for europeans.

So let's not make the situation worse. Let us not strenghtening the lie of the inevitability of the misery pendulum, of the two-party system. Americans should break free and improve their situation.

So your answer for America's misery is that they aren't stupid, they are scared. They are unable to overcome an irrational fear, according to you. The inability to think rationally is something that I'd consider stupidity as well. And I might add that stupidity is in large parts a choice of any given individual.

You may notice that I said there's no easy way out, not that there's no way at all. You have yet to name a third party option that would make the lives of Americans better, that's why that part of your argument is so weak.

The way to fix things for Americans would be to consistently vote for the most left options available, starting at the lowest levels. When there are primaries for Democratic candidates, pick the more progressive ones who have at least some ambition to shake up the old structures of the Democratic party. That way something could change over the course of a couple of decades. That's why I say that there's no easy way, because patience and persistence among the majority of Americans is required instead of doing this stupid back and forth between voting Democrats and Republicans into office.