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WhyEssEff [she/her] @hexbear.net

7mo ago

americans yearn for pretty people on the television

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It's the smartest way to vote for president. You don't get to pick policies or anything else so why would you vote to look at an ugly mug in the news every day?
You've got Trudeau in Canada. Now Sir Kier in the UK (he looks sharp okay?), and previously Sunak. They're not directly elected but still. Many more examples.
Communist/left-leaning countries right now really need to step up their game tbh. At least left-wing parties actually have younger people in them so it mostly isn't just old people.
- Are you saying we need to push Hasan to run for President?
  
  Genuinely think his first name would be the biggest hurdle for him
- They tried the same with Leopoldo Lopez. The right has an easy time putting up hot people because being rich helps you be hot, but also because most conceptions of 'hotness' are based in western and white standards.
  Evo Morales has a great face, but it's too indigenous for the west to fawn over (as they did for Lopez, for example, they were always going on about his looks and shirtlessness).
  Also, right wing politics is so so so aesthetic, and the further right you get the more aesthetically based it gets.
  
  I mean Latin America IS western and so yeah our standards tend to lean more towards whiteness. Countries like Bolivia are unique in that they still have a large enough indigenous population to turn the tide in votes
- I unironically find the typical looking communist person to be rather hot, but that's just me.

Similar to what the other comrade said; There is no expectation anymore that the people in power should have to govern or to meaningfully improve your life.
If that's the case, then the only thing you are voting for is which person you're going to see on the TV for the next 4 years.
This is the main reason why the cheeto won over Hilary. Would you rather watch the funny orange man who says stupid shit or the mean grandma who scolds you for not eating your veggies?
This is also why I think that Kamala will win.
- I remember the same thing with Sarah Palin. We’ll see how far this takes Kamala because Aoc would be an easy victory if looks was all it took.
  But you’re right that there is a pattern in which the more attractive candidate wins and Trump isn’t exactly getting any younger. You’ll notice that all the two term Dem candidates since the debut of TV were notably more attractive than their opposition. JFK would have probably won two terms with his looks and charm alone.

So wait the secret all along was to go for the
vote?
- Oh god oh fuck we're getting one of them marvel super hero body builder dudes in a president or two aren't we
  
  Arnold Schwarzenegger for President.

95% of american politics is having a catchy name or being better looking than the average
- Don't forget how much a man would love to grab a beer with the politician
  Heard that line a billion times about Reagan and Obama lmao
  
  AND W AND TRUMP! NEITHER OF WHOM DRINK. I hate "I want to have a beer with [insert teetotaler here]". HATE.
  On that note, Kamala does drink. Couldn't find a pic of her with a beer, even during a brewery photo op, but did find lots of articles about her and wine.

Vibes

This effect is very real.
Early in the 2019-20 campaign season I had one older roommate who was very much an "everyman" and we would occasionally be watching TV downstairs and chatting. He was quite excited about Kamala.

When I hear shit like this and comrades all confirming it in the comments I am genuinely baffled at how shallow and stupid americans are.
Being attractive is probably detrimental to your campaign in britain.
- are you trying to tell me BoJo wasn't an absolute dreamboat by English standards? like a cooled sausage, dropped off a plate and left out in the rain. a marvel of flesh and reconstituted tissues.
  
  I've seen things you people wouldn't believe... BoJo looking like a cooled sausage left out in the elements... I watched the marvel of flesh and reconstituted tissues - an absolute dreamboat. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain... [Redacted]
- One of my friends dads has the hots for Truss...
  
  I get it. sometimes when someone is so weird and awkward, it makes me feel weird and awkward and my brain confuses this with some form of attraction.
  it invariably results in disaster, so I know to guard against it now.
- Not only America, sadly. Everywhere with elections have voters that just vote with their eyes.
- A screenshot and 5 people adding anecdotes is all you need to write off an entire country as shallow and stupid?
  
  the entire country is indeed shallow and stupid though. she's 100% correct
  Death to America
  
  For a lot of us it's a combination of history, our lived experience, and numerous anecdotes collected from all corners of the internet.
  
  Man have you even been to this lame ass country?

There's the Dukakis picture that was said to have tanked his run.

There's the Howard Dean Scream. :dean
Most of Hillary Clinton's campaign.

When politics is aesthetics, what can we expect.

Normie politics are the most insanely aggrivating thing, which is baffling seeing how much weight they get. Rewarding people who aren't actually paying attention and just kind of doing things off the vibes? Down with

during the mexican election i saw a tiktok meme edit with like a million likes showing how claudia sheinbaum mogs her opponent with a mewing diagram over her jawline

My granma voted for a communist coz he wore a fitted suit, she was married to an active conservative party member btw

Dude’s dad is literally a
comic

I guess that means technocrats should be in charge then?
There are some neo-liberal ass takes here. I'm not saying that Americans aren't some of the most baby-brained political animals in the world, but it's not because it's inherent to the U.S. It turns out that when for generations elections are purely spectacle, because nothing actually substantially changes between the bourgeoisie electoral parties, then most voters will only engage with it at the level of the aesthetic!
Damn, it's almost as if material consequences have an outcome on ideology or something.

That's the most gen x shit I've ever seen...
Show me a generation more hapless and useless in all forms...

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