South American elections
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SOUTH AMERICAN ELECTIONS
[two different people are being portrayed side by side]
Gabriela Rosa Sympatica
Elementary school teacher
Beloved by her community
Wants to improve lives
[portrait of a smiling woman in overalls]
Diego Hitlerio de la Junta
Son of a previous dictator
Went to jail for corruption
Wants to sterilize natives
[portrait of a frowning nasty looking character in military gear]
Temporary results (98% ballots counted):
[Gabriela] 49.9999%
[Diego] 50.0001%
https://thebad.website/comic/south_american_elections
Hey, Latin American here! A few comments to expand:
- In the vast majority of Latin American countries, voting is direct. in other words, a vote for a dude is a vote for that dude, period. No electoral colleges or any of that nonsense they do in the United States (Your system is shit, I'll die on this hill).
- Most elections have a turnout that, in the very best of cases, reaches 50% of the eligible population (those over 18, registered in the system, etc.)
- Therefore, this 50/50 in "real numbers" would be more like 25/25 or so.
- The remaining population would consist of people who are disillusioned with the system or apathetic toward it (mostly young people).
The thing is, no matter how much of an anarchist I want to be, I can’t fully support not voting. Because it’s precisely by not voting that the Diego Hitlerios come to power and screw us all over.
(Your system is shit, I'll die on this hill).
Oh trust me, a lot of us fully agree this system is dumb as hell. Personally I'm in favor of a parliamentary system with a PM who is just a random rep from the leading party and disposing of the senate because it just artificially inflates the voting power of corn. Corn's cool and all, but I don't think corn's existence should count as like 6 Californian votes.
Diego Hitlerio said he would open up the nation's natural resources to American corporations so the CIA is running a smear campaign on Ms. Sympatica and will overthrow her if she still manages to get elected.
So unrealistic, the dictator would win by a way bigger margin. I'm from the Caribbean so I should know.
Do you use torrents? Because if so, gasp! Found a real one!
I've been torrenting stuff since 20 years ago, LOL.
Cool. Stay safe and watch out for ninjas.
One backed by propaganda & propped up by the CIA, and one who worked through their community.
Makes me think of Tropico (I was the Diego Hitlerio)
Tropico 7 gets released this year. I wonder if they'll have weird interactions with the US, and have an orange president you have to deal with in the modern age or something
Somehow still doing a better job than the largest country in NA
Not really, latin america is pretty fucked up man. It's a large part because of that largest country, but no, latin america is by and large a shit show. Even moreso than the US, for the moment, give it some time the US is falling fast.
it's not latin america's fault latin america is a mess. latin america was much more stable before european colonization destroyed the social structures and societal infrastructure that had developed there for milenia. the fact we even call it "latin" "america" when those are both european constructs from the peninsula of italy should tell you something
The causes of it being a mess are varied sure. And as I said, due to the US, but also the espaniards before them obviously, mostly from them. They were the fucking devil. There is a reason FARC was started by renegade Jesuit Priests like Sertorius in actual spain from the roman era circa 1st century bc of colonizing spain.
Sertorius was a roman general that got disgusted by the tactics of the empire, and went over to the spanish tribes. He laid waste tot he romans for a long time, it's a great story, eventually his lieutenant killed him to take the leader post, and promptly lost to pompey that had been dispatched to deal with the rebellion. A decades long rebellion.
I digress though, the pre columbian latin america, had it's own problems, human sacrifice and such. Cutting people's hearts out while alive, skinning them alive. That is not all fabrication by the espaniards either I've been assured. They were stone age, and doing the same things the old world did in the stone age.
But now, what to do? We need to organize and cooperate on what we agree on. Then [redacted] and to buy that new mario brothers game and learn to play it multiplayer, but once again, I'm off subject.
Peru, right? Is really infuring the half of a country decide the destiny of the other half, it show the dead of democratic electoral systems
It's not just Peru, this dynamic is across Latin America.
