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It creates circles of like-minded people where it is really easy to reject “other” thoughts and accept “our” ideas without much questioning.

I know it sounds counter-intuitive, but there is an argument to be made that we should actually go back to smaller, more secluded forums on the internet that are less connected with outside views.

Hmm okay. I do think we have something similar here where there might be meetings that we call "citizen meetings" where anyone is invited to come and hear about a current political topic. It's mostly informative and people can ask questions and stuff, not related to campaigning or elections mostly I would say. So yea I don't think that is too weird honestly.

That just makes me think, how can those people not voting just sit idly by and watch? I don't understand that either.

I'm not sure about the format but I know that towns in Denmark also occasionally calls for meetings. This doesn't sound that weird to me

Well the map includes Canada, US, UK and India, and some african territories that I imagine may have been UK colonies at one point (I could be wrong), hence english-speaking world.

I think those are particular examples but if you look at most of the EU, I think there are more political choices than just 2. Here in Denmark there's sometimes a discussion that there are too many political parties. We currently have like 12?

The weirdest thing, the thing that I have the hardest time understanding, is how many people vote for Trump. There was just a survey here in Denmark asking how many would vote for Trump. It was 8%. That number I still find a bit high but I can understand it a little bit. 8% of people voting for something very harmful seems almost inevitable I guess. Some people just aren't educated or informed enough.

But the fact that close to 50% of americans choose to vote for Trump, and that in some states, it is even more than 50% - that I don't think I will ever understand. That is madness.

No, not really. Only some parts of the english-speaking world use FPTP and it's not that common to have only 2 choices unless you have that system.

Isn't that quite normal even in other countries? I believe we do it quite commonly in Denmark.

Townhalls are weird.

Town halls? As in the building or does this mean something else? Aren't town halls quite common and normal elsewhere?

Flags everywhere is weird.

We kinda do this in Denmark too tbh. I personally don't find it that weird due to that.

most of the cost of [anything] goes to publishers, not the creators

My edit obviously. It does feel like that though. I pay Netflix, not the people making the movie. For games it is at least a bit better - I pay Valve (Steam) and the publisher but at least some of it goes directly to the devs. But it could be better still I suppose. But I'd honestly be okay if we got a Steam-like platform for series and movies where I could buy the ones I want without any subscriptions.

Uh, how? I mean you'd need to make it legal I feel like. But that's never going to happen and I honestly don't think that's fair either. If piracy is legal, how would content creators actually be paid?

I get the sentiment but this is not really an option most of the time if you want to stick with lawful methods. For instance, I cannot watch most movies or TV series these days without a subscription to some service.