r/SipsTea • u/Bigb5wm • 1d ago

Wait a damn minute! College scammed them

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u/footballfan104 1d ago

I wonder what allows Sweden to do this, but not America….

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u/Significant-Colour 1d ago

Swedes are interested in that, so they vote for such policies - and they can afford it.

Americans could afford that, but they are not interested in having tuitionless education, thus they do not vote for such policies; that's okay, they simply have different priorities, such as attacking Canada and Greenland.

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u/clementinesncupcakes 1d ago

Hey, it’s not as simple as “vote for what you want!” when American corporations spend literal billions of dollars to ensure your votes don’t count or that the ballots are so verbose that you can’t figure out what you are voting for because of the insane amount of jargon.

Here’s an article about some of the wilder ones:

https://www.propublica.org/article/five-of-the-most-confusing-ballots-in-the-country

I respect that America brands itself as a democracy, but it’s not. It hasn’t been for a very long time. We’re subject to the whims of the ruling class.

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u/Significant-Colour 1d ago

That's fair, but was there anything like that reported recently, like in the 2024 presidential election, for instance?

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u/clementinesncupcakes 1d ago

Hah! I wish that I could use verbiage as an excuse for Trump’s election. Unfortunately, that part of the ballot is a check box next to a name. There are usually around 12-50 names with check boxes on a given ballot in California for different local, county, and federal positions.

It’s the propositions that offer us basic human privileges, though, and that’s why they like to keep them obtuse and illegible.

PS sorry for being so bitter earlier. I just found out that they’re cutting funding for my school. We do Alzheimer’s research, and I know for a fact most people agree with alzherimer’s research, but pundits have packaged it like we’re just farting around. So I’m sad and taking it out on everyone, sorry for that.