millennial fulcrum
countries be like
1. begrudgingly elect left wingers
2. get frustrated that the world aint perfect, blame the lefties
3. rage-elect right wingers
4. quick thrill followed by crushing economic downturn and/or war
5. begrudgingly elect left wingers
Mar 31, 2024 at 10:15pmWeb
Show threadDud (Mx)Mar 31, 2024
@falcennial Not so much begrudging votes these days. People seem to go full Fash.
Show thread⚜️Δρakakiς🍁Apr 1, 2024

The political history of Canada, 1950 forward.

From @falcennial

https://mastodon.social/users/falcennial/statuses/112192606125709703

Show threadAndy Linton 🇮🇪  ✅Apr 1, 2024
@falcennial Currently in Stage 4 in Aotearoa New Zealand. Eagerly anticipating the next stage
Show threadAdron 🤘🏻Apr 1, 2024
@falcennial seems that is the standard MO.
Show threadZorro Notorious MEB 🪷🪷🪷Apr 1, 2024

@falcennial Or

1. Joyously elect left-wingers
2. Have a US Republican CIA incite a coup to install a right winger

Show threadzillaApr 1, 2024
@falcennial What has Democrats (US) and Labour (UK and Aus) done for the world and in particular the Global South...more of the same. In Australia the Labour government pushes exports of coal to an all time high. All of these left leaning governments enabled genocide, GENOCIDE and defunded a UN body delivering food aid on spurious grounds. Juice Media aptly describes them as #@!#* lite. That is why.
Show threadHTPC NZApr 1, 2024
@falcennial i would say they elect centrist or slightly left of centre, not really left wingers, who don't really do anything meaningful leading to even worse right wingers getting voted in each cycle. It's worse in US as democrats are a centre right party already.
Show threadAlan CampbellApr 1, 2024
@falcennial then the short-term memory kicks in so the rich-wingers get elected again.
Show threadJohn BaileyApr 1, 2024

@falcennial

One of the problems is that we don't have any **actual** left wingers to elect, grudgingly or not. We have straw "radical lefties" - as described by the red-hats.

Show threadJillApr 1, 2024
@falcennial Nailed it! 🎯
Show threadLillian VioletApr 1, 2024
@falcennial 1. Be Dutch
2. The left wing hasn't been in power since before I was born 27 years ago.
3. The country is in disrepair
4. They vote more right wing 
Show threadKevin LeecasterApr 1, 2024
@GLaDTheresCake @falcennial
I'm old enough to remember when most Americans called the type of climate action that Joe Biden has taken to be a leftist attempt to control their lives.
Show threadpcbeardApr 1, 2024
@falcennial the cycle of life. Frankly I wish politics would go extinct. Government is fine, but ideology is lipstick on a pig.
Show threadNick TaylorApr 2, 2024

@falcennial It's not that the world ain't perfect, it's that the left-wingers aren't actually left wingers.

They're more like place-holders that sit there tinkering with the inconsequential, until enough pressure comes off the kleptocrats for them to be re-elected.

Rinse Repeat.

Show threadMcBeigeApr 2, 2024
@nicktaylor @falcennial The right-lite
Show threadmarcinkJul 1, 2024
@falcennial Hah, thank you for editing this post. I've been trying to remember where I've seen this but couldn't find it.