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mexico getting a female president before the US seems on brand for the US.
Lots of countries had female heads of state. Here are some Muslim* ones.
*Mauritius and Singapore aren't Muslim countries but have a significant Muslim minority.
I have faith in the American voter to put up an all woman P/VP ticket in the form of MTG / Lauren Boebert.
In a highly contested election, they'll squeak by with a margin of 246 votes in a country run by a sheriff known for smoothering inmates in their sleep, after a federal court rules anyone with a Latino surname is ineligible to cast a ballot. While they technically came out ahead by ten million popular votes, Democrats will conclude that running against the electoral college is a losing issue and will spend the next two years campaigning as the Party That Wants To Protect The Rights of Police to Opt Out of AI Surveillance.
The Dems will run a candidate four years later consisting of a cybernetic hivemind of tech CEOs living in a big vat in a walled compound in New Zealand, on the banner "We're Not As Out of Touch as We Look", and will win by a margin of 42.8 votes, after successfully convincing a federal court that the 3/5ths compromise applies to LLCs, LLMs, and LARPs. This hivemind will begin the Mass Liquidation Project, intended to eliminate surplus flesh in the national economy. Any political opposition will be categorized as "anti-democratic" and require the speaker to register as "row 1 liquidation candidates" for the crime of invoking restless spirits of the Unspeakable Cheeto.
Trump will have died of sixteen different medical complications while serving out his second term. But after Elon Musk successfully incorporates his consciousness into the Truth Social app, simulated approximations of Trump posts will continue to appear in all American social media sites until the Great National Blackout of 2053. No records exist following this period, as Americans will have forgotten how to write and read.
I should finish reading infinite jest
My favourite part is when elon uploads trump's mind to the net but since his technology is shit the instance of trump is in permanent excruciating pain forever
Since its Elon, its just a javascript that says "Hello I am Donald Trump 🤣🤣♥️🖤🚀🚘 Elon Musk is my friend" and "Pussy In Bio ♥️ 🍆 💦 🍑Please Invest in Bitcoin 🪙 🪙 🪙" when you try to interact with it.
Sometimes I like to go outside and sit in some grass or under an awning... then close my eyes and just listen to nature.
It's therapeutic.
Not shitting in the US , just some other interesting facts.. gay marriage was legalized in mexico first, also abortion rights are stronger in mexico , and weed legalization (federal). I'm a mexican living in the US and like it her (My career it's in semiconductors and this industry is barely taking off in México). I find it very interesting they are leading in some of these topics/initiatives, despite being a super religious country.
Most of my family wonder why I came here where I could have similar or better life there. There are two sides of Mexico..1) mainly poor and marginalized that come here(with some exeptions like me). And 2) there is a sector of the polloularion that is very well off economically, with standards of living at par with the US and get no benefit coming here.
Just a semi informed comment since i'm not an economist or politician.
Don't mind me, just another day watching Americans thinking that the poorer country to their south couldn't possibly be more generally progressive than them ☕☕☕
Mexico also banned slavery before the US did. That's why Texas split from Mexico, became its own country, then asked the US for help, which the US granted. As their way of saying thanks, Texas applied for Statehood. Then when we started thinking that maybe owning people was wrong, Texas was all "Now, wait a minute! The whole reason we started hanging out with you guys in the first place was because you said owning people was cool!"
Not everything is about you.
Everything is about US. That's why we are called US!
/s
Can't be a lemme comment thread without someone completely unnecessarily shitting on the US. 👍
They are continuing the tradition from Reddit.
There's something in the contrast between the high percentages of the "best country in the world" people that generally populate the US vs the lived experience of being in America and noticing the myriad ways in which it is decidedly not the fucking best.
That contrast is a killer, and I think adds to the motivation people have to shit on it.
The issue is that this place is filled with the exact opposite: people who keep saying that America is some hell on earth. We certainly have plenty of problems and there are no shortage of ways we could improve drastically...but the people who can't see a post about a historic achievement in Mexico without shitting on America are just as ridiculous as the people who can't see another country's success/failure without claiming America is the best. Two sides of the same thoughtless coin.
Gotta get those cool, Lemmy up votes. You can trade in your up votes for prizes.
My country elected a female president two years after I was born.
we could have had one if people stopped being so misogynistic in 2016
Or if she had put more effort into campaigning, instead of being dismissive of her opponent.