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Sauerkraut@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

We are on day 15, and we are running out of time. We have to make change, or our democracy will be gone.

Our “democracy” has been dead since 2008, when Americans gave the liberal wing of the capitalist party a super majority and full control over the government on the promise that they would give us universal healthcare. But instead they came up with endless excuses not to help us.

A representative democracy that does not represent and help the people who elect them ceases to be a democracy.

Also, having a two headed capitalist party is not a fucking democracy. If we cannot vote for communists or socialists that will actually fight for the proletariat then that isn’t a democracy

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Bytemeister@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Ah yes, a “Thanks Obama” meme.

Maybe it was over when Citizens United was ruled on? Maybe it was over when Reganomics set in. Maybe it was over when we failed to hold Nixon accountable for his crimes. Maybe it was over last November when people decided that allowing a twice impeached fascist felon dictator to hold the highest office was an acceptable result as long as a thousand+ year turf scrabble between to theologically opposed peoples on the other side of the fucking planet was unresolved.

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- lonerangers1@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  maybe, it goes back to the civil war when instead of handling the losers we let them continue to exist. They never stopped trying to get their slaves back. They have never had an alliance with the union.
  
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- isolatedscotch@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  
  Maybe it was over last November when people decided that allowing a twice impeached fascist felon dictator to hold the highest office was an acceptable result as long as a thousand+ year turf scrabble between two theologically opposed peoples on the other side of the fucking planet remained unresolved?
  
  Its even funnier because trump made the Gaza situation even worse, and back when the elections hadn’t started I posted a meme about it on hexbear and everyone went “muh Gaza” (i tried writing shit but it gets deleted by the mods immediatly, so much for “free speech” and anarchism lmao)
  
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Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Agreed.

Trump and his partners are clearly trying to rip down the current government. I personally am not opposed to that. What we’ve had in place was a dumpster fire. What they want to replace it with is what concerns me.

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0x0@programming.dev ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

If we cannot vote for communists or socialists

'Muricans are so red-scared from birth they don’t even know what communist means but think it’s evil nonetheless… as if communists bombed Nagasaki or something.

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