• DandomRude@piefed.social
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    24 天前

    Who still believes the U.S. is a democracy? Seriously, you’d have to be a deluded nationalist not to see that this system has as little to do with democracy as elections in Russia do.

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      24 天前

      Who thinks they’re helping anything by positing democracy as a “yes” or “no” situation? Congratulations, you have no understanding of the fragile balance it has always been.

    • Spot@startrek.website
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      24 天前

      They got their base last year to deride everyone who mentioned US democracy with “We’Re a rEpUbLiC!” I imagined it was for making the lack of any democracy the new normal.

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      You’d have to participate in the democracy in a meaningful way. It’s not just waiting every 4 years to vote or attending an 8 hr protest/fundraiser

    • FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca
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      21 天前

      I’m so tired of people still acting like everything is normal in the Untied States. After November, can the world finally acknowledge that the Untied States has been taken over by a fascist dictatorship?