• @[email protected]
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    1981 month ago

    Dude, where the fuck did they find this guy? I never heard of him and BAM…dude is saintlier than most of the Catholic Church.

    • @[email protected]
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      1311 month ago

      It’s not hard to be saintlier than the catholic church. Just don’t systematically abuse kids and you’re good.

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      871 month ago

      Its because he just seriously did his job. And apparently thats super rare in todays america. He did politics and good policy without it being a media circus. He didn’t do it for attention and visibility. No scandals, no media stunts.

      This is what politics shoud be. Not that media circus it is in the US with the goal being to have the most headlines and the most press attention not to make good politics.

      • DarkThoughts
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        161 month ago

        The US election circus still is so weird to me, watching from Europe. I get a bit of campaigning but this has sports levels of insanity already.

        • @[email protected]
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          61 month ago

          My boss and coworker were fangirling when Trump ‘won’ the debate against biden. I’ve legit seen them do the same thing with sports talk. Nevermind that Trump didn’t actually say anything of substance or truthful during all of that. I just didn’t acknowledge them.

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          To put this into perspective for all you Americans: In my country at least, we don’t have “rallies” at all. It’s not a thing. We have political debates and news broadcasts regularly where politicians from opposing parties are invited to speak their case, that’s it. Of course, parties also have stands in public places where they give out pamphlets and promote their party, but in those places you’ll likely find stands from a bunch of parties.

          The way you do campaigning in the US is absurd to me.

        • @[email protected]
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          11 month ago

          That’s exactly right. People here think of it as sport as well. That’s why we’re stuck in this cycle.

    • @djsoren19
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      271 month ago

      There’s actually a lot of great politicians that most people haven’t heard of because they’re too boring for our 24/7 news cycle to care about. Walz has just been quietly being an excellent governor to Minnesota, like how Pritzker is doing a pretty good job as governor of Illinois or how Whitmer is doing a pretty good job as governor of Michigan. There’s not much of a reason to learn about politicians that don’t represent you though, so these kinds of working politicians don’t get much attention.

    • KillingTimeItself
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      81 month ago

      i think this is just like, legally mandated in the midwest. You just have to be moderately based, at all times.