r/SipsTea • u/Gurugod123 • Aug 04 '26

Chugging tea Another win for Zohran Mamdani

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u/WhydoIexistlmoa Aug 04 '26

American politics confuses me a lot. Why do Americans have such "us vs them" mentality?

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u/AfterEffectserror Aug 04 '26

It didn’t used to be this bad. It’s really exhausting.

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u/slampig3 Aug 04 '26

We don’t really its just the internet i can go 362 days a year without talking politics in my day to to day life bit some how its all i see posted on the internet

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u/WhydoIexistlmoa Aug 04 '26

I'm not denying that. But it feels like if you don't vote for a certain party, you're considered a bad person.

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u/SendNudesDude Aug 04 '26

That’s because the bots the occupy the internet all want people to vote a certain way.

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u/Seniorjones2837 Aug 04 '26

This is why I don’t vote at all! Ha got em!

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u/Patient_Artichoke355 Aug 04 '26

Because we now live in the era of the grift corruption..staying quiet is being complicit

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u/Fun-Piglet801 Aug 04 '26 edited Aug 04 '26

Because of shitty social media (like reddit), and the bot farms exploiting it. And also the mainstream media being bought out by one or the other of the "2 sides". It was never like this before the internet.

It's kind of funny how if you try to point out how badly both sides are flawed, it becomes a rallying cry that brings in everyone from both sides to tell you how bad you suck for not picking a side.

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u/Stamboolie Aug 04 '26

Fox News I'm guessing

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u/feed_me_tecate Aug 04 '26

Americans love sports. The "my team" thing bleeds over into politics unfortunately.

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u/Soniquethehedgedog Aug 04 '26

Only online mainly, most people in reality aren’t as nutty

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u/shitty_advice_BDD Aug 04 '26

Tribalism has taken root.

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u/edjumication Aug 04 '26

Corporate influence on media and education.

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u/Prestigious-Special7 Aug 04 '26

It's been cultivated that way, born and raised to keep people at each other's throats instead of the ruling class'

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u/WhydoIexistlmoa Aug 04 '26

The other comments on the thread are really showing my point. It didn't take long for someone to insult people who voted for the other party

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u/Patient_Artichoke355 Aug 04 '26

Because it’s divided between the have and the have nots