Comment on What's it going to take to truly stop the US?

• Daft_ish@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Its a democratic republic. A form of democracy. Go on with your essentialism though.

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  • Amnesigenic@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    We’ve gone from only representing rich white christians to only representing the rich lol, it’s not “essentialism” to recognize the verifiable fact that political decisions in this country are not made in accordance with the desires or best interests of voters, the US is a fucking oligarchy and has been since before either of us was born, read a fucking book

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    • Daft_ish@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Maybe understand what the meaning of the word decay is.

      The USA is 250+ years old. Democracy has waned and and surged over those years. Ill give you the same prescription, read a fucking book.

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      • queermunist@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Have you actually read anything that wasn’t assigned in school?

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      • Amnesigenic@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        250 years ago we had no political rights for women or for men who didn’t own land and we had chattel slavery, now we have billionaires publicly finalizing the process of regulatory capture and the largest prison population on earth by a wide margin with explicit allowance in our constitution for prison slave labor. Not a fucking democracy from the start, still not a democracy, probably never going to be a democracy seeing as how it’s fucking collapsing in front of us. In short, lol cope.

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