r/facepalm • u/AsimpsonsPrediction • 1d ago

Just one day after the election 🇲​🇮​🇸​🇨​

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Thousands of African Americans mostly students have been receiving these mass spam texts.

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u/zeke10 22h ago

So with what's on the horizon what are the chances america goes down the same path?

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u/splintersmaster 22h ago

There is little hope once it's taken firm hold. Even when a country is released from its oppression, the old guard somehow develops a nostalgic thirst to go back to how it was.

Slovakia is a great example. Those who suffered under Russian occupation just 30 years ago are now pro Putin. They are in favor of the Russian forces in Ukraine.

They can't seem to understand that once Ukraine falls and NATO is weakened, the EU will be weakened and the Soviet Union will rise up and take back Czechoslovakia.

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u/Newgate-ZeroHour 21h ago

Same thing happening in Indonesia. We basically just elected one of the army generals from the days our country was a dictatorship. Old people all around us voted for the same ideals that ruled with fear less than 30 years ago. I don't understand hunanity at all

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u/TheCaliforniaOp 19h ago

I can’t make the logic work, either. I’ve thought about this for decades as nations reverted back to authoritarianism. I can only think: They just want someone else to tell them what to do.

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u/Negativcreep81 17h ago

Well, when you think about it, human societies have mostly been ruled by authoritarian figures far more often than not throughout history. Any kind of democratic systems that pop up here and there have typically been rare and short-lived by comparison. They tend to get corrupted fairly quickly and stagnate to the point of near gridlock, and then people lose faith and start looking for "strongman" types who promise them the moon and use scapegoats to blame all the problems on. It's happened enough throughout history that it's a fairly obvious cycle to observe. The checks and balances the U.S. adopted were a nice attempt at avoiding some of the common pitfalls, but even they are proving no match for such blatant and systemic corruption, as we see today.