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gender-euphowrya · 1 month ago

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y'know we don't talk a lot about how weird the US culture of people publicly broadcasting their political inclinations with stuff like bumper stickers & pins and whatnot is like it's very sports team-y

#i don't mean like... having a pride flag or a raised fist bumper sticker for example #i mean stuff that spells out exactly which party and/or candidates you vote for #like if i walked down the street and i saw a car and it had a sticker that was like ''EMMANUEL MACRON 2020'' i'd be like. uh?#like that's how you get your tires slashed around here GKGJFKDJD #people usually try to keep which party they vote for a secret to some extent #like maybe they Will talk politics with their loved ones and all but. signalling it to random strangers with merch ? hell no #every time i've voted so far i went to vote with my mom and every time i never knew who she voted for #like i have a p good idea of who she Doesn't vote for but i couldn't tell you exactly who she does vote for #if any of them. honestly she doesn't know shit about politics #anyway i guess the fact that y'all are under a bipartisan system kinda exacerbates this ? like... everyone is in one of 2 categories ig #whereas here with our like... dozens of parties it's easier to keep things to ourselves #but also we just don't have that culture of broadcasting to the whole world which candidates we support #it's more of a ''if you know me you'll be able to tell who i vote for. if you don't know me you don't need to know who i vote for'' thing

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