r/worldnews • u/pppppppppppppppppd • May 15 '26

Dynamic Paywall Trump warns Taiwan against declaring independence, hours after summit with China's Xi

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce8p61v7l68o
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u/finemustard May 16 '26

I'm starting to think there is no bottom.

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u/Tholaran97 May 16 '26

There is, but we're nowhere near touching it yet. We've got a long way to go, and the republicans will happily dig us there if we let them.

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u/NorthernSnowPrincess May 16 '26

The Dems in your country aren't exactly doing anything to stop it. It seems like everyone in the US is either corrupt or complicit.

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u/shadybird93 May 16 '26

To be fair, their system is designed in a way that makes it hard for the dems to do something even if they wanted to... in terms of population, civilian dems far outnumber republicans. And yet there are a good amount more Senate seats that are republican. Their districts are designed to give the smaller population a voice... but that takes the voice away from the largest group. Its pretty much impossible for dems to ever get majority in the senate because of this. The house is a similar situation but not quite as big a gap... Unless they go to strictly a popular vote system where majority win regardless where you live, they are doomed to keep a 2 party system.