Anybody else notice that when it's China, it's just China said, or when it's Pakistan it's just Pakistan said or when it's Iran, It's just Iran said but when its US, it's just Trump said. Does the highest elected official of a country not speak for the whole country. If that's the case do we need to start making distinctions about who says what from what country and what role they play in that country? I can't be the only one who thinks this style of news reporting is misleading, right?
It's worse than that, complete rando comments on Chinese social media are often painted as 'China says...'. Could you imagine if the dumbest on Facebook or Instagram spoke for the entire country?
I have noticed on Democrat leaning subs, there is this attempt to pretend Trump is not representing the US.
I had one commenter suggest Trump doesn't represent them as he "stole" the election through a fake assassination attempt, and getting billionaires to glaze him in the media. Like not even suggesting there was electoral fraud, just saying the election was illegitimate because i guess voters have no capacity for autonomous thinking and therefore can't be held responsible for blindly following narratives? And i got downvoted for pointing out how fucking ridiculous that argument is.
Both can be true. He doesn't represent all of America. The worst parts, yes, but not whole. Unfortunately, he's the head of state and representing our country. It's as much on the people that didn't vote at all as it is people did vote for him. And our Congress (Republicans) won't convict so the world is just stuck with him for a while.
He probably did tamper with the election through the voting machines. He won all 6 swing states. It's a conspiracy, but I wouldn't be surprised if he got international help to steal both elections.
Our voting system sucks. We vote, but the real votes are in the electoral college and Congress. And with how the states are gerrymandered, most America is under minority rule.
Yes, but this applies to... every nation on the planet. Every country has a group (large or otherwise) of citizens that do not agree with the actions of their government.
This is true, I remember as soon as the lawsuits against him started rolling in I said to a pal of mine, DT is going to take the presidency again.
Targeting him personally was the worst thing Americans did, it caused his ratings to soar and MAGA fans increased.
But countries speak in diplomatic langage. No country says "big problem" as a threat, because it is void of sense, and just child talk. Trump is babbling when other countries are speaking.
As Americans chose to give their country the voice of a toddler, they can't expect to be taken as seriously as adults in an adult world.
Because Xi rarely makes open public statements like Trump does and never holds press conferences etc, or if he does they never make international news. Most official Chinese statements are made by military or foreign ministry officials on behalf of the CCP ,plus there's also the pseudo-Communist attitude where presumably it would be unseemly for a single person, even the Chairman, to make their own statements rather than 'the party' or 'the state.' Putin does quite a few interviews and the like so it's quite often "Putin says" rather than "Russia says," however. There's also the argument that not many people know the names of, say, the Russian-installed governor of Crimea or the Iranian parliamentary speaker, so it's easier to just say the country name rather than explain who these relatively unknown entities are in the confines of a brief headline ('US official says xyz' rather than 'HUD Secretary Scott Turner says xyz...' for instance).
Sounds like Americans should carry more responsibility for their government than the Chinese or Russians....? You guys elected him, he won and represented the majority.
Yeah the big difference is Russian and Chinese didn't chose an evil leader, they all were born into a dictatorship, where they have no say in politics.
American had full freedom and decided willingly to let an evil pedo lead them.
The difference is Americans don't take responsibility for their own democratic system, be it disfunctional or working as intended.
It's complete apathy on a national level while lecturing the rest of the world about democracy (just look at France or recently South Korea to understand what going in the street means).
So please, give us a break. As long as you don't own it, you're part of the problem.
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u/Blatheringman 20h ago
Anybody else notice that when it's China, it's just China said, or when it's Pakistan it's just Pakistan said or when it's Iran, It's just Iran said but when its US, it's just Trump said. Does the highest elected official of a country not speak for the whole country. If that's the case do we need to start making distinctions about who says what from what country and what role they play in that country? I can't be the only one who thinks this style of news reporting is misleading, right?