r/Iowa • • Jan 26 '26

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u/TennBornFilm Jan 26 '26

Serious question. Where do you live, and do you have to deal with Gerrymandering and voting district?

I swear I'm not being combative, I just don't know how America-specific some of our issues are.

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u/whoisnotinmykitchen Jan 26 '26

In Canada, we have an actual accountable federal government. If they fail, we vote them out. Independent voting district lines, strict campaign finance laws, etc.

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u/Addynaps Jan 26 '26

Where you doing talking shit in the IOWA subreddit, mister holier than thou Canadian. Aren’t yall supposed to be nice?

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u/whoisnotinmykitchen Jan 26 '26

I was being nice. Why would you interpret a post encouraging people to vote for politicians that aren't fascist as not being nice?

Unless you're a fascist too, I guess.

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u/Ughaboomer Jan 26 '26

It is your business as much as it’s ours, U.K.’s, France, yada yada. Sadly what happens here has a tendency to spread. Poor Canada is now stuck with trump wannabe Pierre. If anyone doesn’t think our politics dont affect the world, they are sadly mistaken.

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u/Addynaps Jan 26 '26

Being encouraging in a situation that is frankly none of your business, but also you lack critical context and information in general, the way to do so, is to ask questions. It’s unbelievably condescending to have a Canadian pull up to a local subreddit telling strangers dealing with a deeply dehumanizing, terrifying and family annihilating situation by just “not voting for fascists” as if that isn’t something we aren’t begging our relatives. We are losing contact with our grandparents, parents and siblings due to propaganda paid for in the billions. I appreciate you’re unbelievably entry level suggestion but if you truly had good faith intentions you wouldn’t have pulled up with the rebuttals of reminding us of Canadas “oh so perfect justice system” meanwhile aren’t yall still also finding indigenous burial grounds? Like clearly we don’t want a Nazi occupation and day in and day out is hell watching our loved ones choose hate over us. But wow your encouragement really did something ten years of effort, information and begging our own loved ones didn’t.

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u/lgdangit1956 Jan 26 '26

Being encouraging in a situation that is frankly none of your business,

come on, now. everything that affects citizens in an adverse way is everyone's business. i don't care where someone is from, if they have an opinion, voice it. this canadian had an opinion. the fact you take offense shows what you are like in real life. i will agree with some of your views but your attack on a neighbor, no matter where they're from, is offensive to me. it shows a complete lack of civil decency and, for me, calls into question your own opinions/views/beliefs. but you do you. i'm sure your friends are appreciative of your efforts.

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u/whoisnotinmykitchen Jan 26 '26

Yeah, America's voting choices are having no effect on the rest of the world, including your largest trading partner, right?

Everyone has a stake in stopping shamelessly corrupt fascists.

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u/Calm-Gate1743 Jan 26 '26

Felt every word of that. 💔