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SeeMarkFly@lemmy.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• theuniqueone@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  not as long as america supported americas economic and political interests. America has never cared about “democracy”.

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  • raltoid@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    America has never cared about “democracy”.

    The election system makes that blatantly obvious. First-past-the-post voting and a two party system is pretty anti-democratic in and of itself, and was derided by George Washington as one of the great evils of history.

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    • blackbelt352@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      2 parties is the inevitable outcome of FPTP, there’s no enforcement of 2 parties, it’s simply the most viable strategy in this voting system. Washington was right to deride the 2 party system but the framers were building an electoral system long before we had some extremely serious mathematics done about making voting systems more fair, and also proving that no voting system can be perfectly fair and satisfy all fairness criteria.

      And they also weren’t one homogeneous group either, they all wanted different things and came to compromise about how to go about doing it, some wanted a centralized army to stand up to outside forces, others saw that as a risk, capable of waging war internally. They were working off of the collective knowledge of the Greeks, Romans, and more contemporary writers like Voltaire, Hobbes, and Rousseau. They didn’t have the next 250 years of political philosophy that would develop that we know today.

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• Nelots@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Idk. Does America got an oil?

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• Noodle07@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  We should tell Americans there’s oil in Texas. Liberate them or something

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• nao@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Isn’t it kind of already doing that

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• loomy@lemy.lol ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  This is a counterpoint to the sign in the post.

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• doug@lemmy.today ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I heard once that project Cascadia (wherein the west coast separates from the rest of the US) was a Russian-backed effort to destabilize the west and… I hate to say it but I’ve been like “fuck it, you won, get us out of here.”

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