Had Donald Trump been the U.S. president hosting this week’s APEC meetings, I have no doubt that the headline from the event would have been unchanged. It would have been: “He’s a dictator.”

The only difference is it would be Xi Jinping who was saying it to describe Trump.

Other than that, though, a Trump-hosted APEC meeting would likely have been unrecognizably different from the successful and productive forum hosted by President Joe Biden.

    • @NewNewAccount@lemmy.world
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      21 year ago

      You think throwing away your vote on a candidate who claims to support electoral reform but has no chance of winning will have any meaningful impact?

        • @Mnemnosyne@sh.itjust.works
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          01 year ago

          They might if they joined a real party instead of a troupe cosplaying as politicians.

          You want change, you join one of the real parties and fight to become a candidate in that party and gain enough influence to shift party policy.

          If everyone that did the third party nonsense did that, there might be enough support in a real party to start changing things and maybe eventually make third parties viable instead of just a performative game.