Japan’s governing party leader, Sanae Takaichi, is on track to become the country’s first female prime minister, after finding a badly needed replacement for a crucial partner that left her Liberal Democratic Party’s coalition.
People understand that their position is getting worse and worse every year. The liberal parties are all promising to stay the course and maybe throw a couple bones to token minority groups. The conservatives are promising to punish all the dirty minorities that ruined everything and make it all better. Your average voter has no political inclination and when one group says they aren’t gonna change anything, and the other offers radical change, it’s not surprising why voters will go for the change option.
It’s striking how little many people know about history and politics, but more concerning is how little they care. My old coworkers just don’t seem to care much. And they won’t even feel shame because their only priority seems to be protecting their ego.
Reminds me of Brent from The Good Place, honestly. “No. No. I’m a good person. I’m a good person!!”
The whole world is fucking trippin
Late stage capitalism + social media engagement algos. It’s impacting almost every nation.
Social media algos are a product of late stage capitalism. 🥹
To be fair, a lot of things are but I think it’s still an important detail
Agreed. It’s got notable, outsized externalities like some other notorious industries like the fossil fuel one.
“Why is world getting worse? We need a strong conservative to get us back before the world got shit from strong conservative policies” - dumbasses
People understand that their position is getting worse and worse every year. The liberal parties are all promising to stay the course and maybe throw a couple bones to token minority groups. The conservatives are promising to punish all the dirty minorities that ruined everything and make it all better. Your average voter has no political inclination and when one group says they aren’t gonna change anything, and the other offers radical change, it’s not surprising why voters will go for the change option.
It’s striking how little many people know about history and politics, but more concerning is how little they care. My old coworkers just don’t seem to care much. And they won’t even feel shame because their only priority seems to be protecting their ego.
Reminds me of Brent from The Good Place, honestly. “No. No. I’m a good person. I’m a good person!!”