Snips:
Lindsey Graham’s sister, Darline Graham Nordone, has been named as his temporary replacement in the US Senate after his unexpected death. The appointment sparked controversy among US media and netizens, as some questioned whether his sister had the political experience to qualify the position. A Chinese expert pointed out that political resources in the US are distributed unevenly, and many talented Americans are discouraged from entering politics, as those without the necessary political or financial resources face major obstacles to seeking public office.
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Chinese netizens also mocked this replacement decision. A netizen on Sina Weibo said that “They talk constantly about democracy, yet practice hereditary succession. How can a country where even a Senate seat can be passed from brother to sister have the confidence to lecture others?”
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In addition, today’s US political system also exhibits a dynamic in which bad money drives out good. “Growing political polarization and declining ethical standards in US politics discourage capable and principled people from seeking office, while rewarding less scrupulous politicians, ultimately weakening political culture and government effectiveness,” Wu said.
netizens
hey shut the fuck up
“Netizens” must be the standard translation for some very common term in Chinese because I see Chinese media using it a lot
“So yeah, I …” gets used a ton on XHS, and I assume it’s similar to that.
ah possibly, it personally makes my skin crawl
A US publication doing the same thing would probably say “X users” or “Facebook users” or whatever, “Netizens” does at least have the positive of not being advertisement for a specific brand of social media.
Your going to have to accept someday that all those “cinge” internet people are real and are going to be in positions of power soon if not already.
they’re not Internet people, they’re just people
or bots
Fuck the oligarchy. The US system is corrupt to the core.
Tear it all down.
Off with their fucking heads!
more and more people are saying this
Why aren’t chuds claiming this is woke because woman?
Title gore af
for how US-centric the site is sometimes i don’t know why this is weird for people. there’s a long history of appointing widows to offices to finish her late husband’s term because of sexism and women not being a threat to the men who would stand in the next election (until Hattie Caraway i guess).
The first woman senator! Let’s check her record:
Caraway was a prohibitionist and voted against anti-lynching legislation along with other Southern Democratic senators. She was generally a supporter of the New Deal.
A lot of prohibitionism was anti-immigrant racism
