• orrk@lemmy.world
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      9 months ago

      democratic republic is still a democracy, please don’t be like those conservatives who spout “it’s a republic not a democracy”, the electoral system is outdated, but it’s still a democracy

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        9 months ago

        Yeah, sure, just like the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (aka North Korea) is also a Democracy because it says so in the name.

        Sorry but that power duopoly with a Mathematically rigged voting system you have over there is barelly more democratic than Russia, the vote being little more than a theatrical performance were you get to choose between two pre-selected options who are so shit they can’t really sell their own personal qualities so both mainly campaign on “vote me 'cause the other guy is worse”.

        Unsurprising both “sides” when in power always govern for the benefit of the same group (and it’s not those who voted for them) but they sure make a big show of their differences in the moral plane to compensate for being pretty much the same in when it comes to the actually governing of the country for the good of those who live there.

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      The politicians in charge want it. So pretty much every republican and a sizeable amount of democrats. Without actual representative voting, both parties would loose a lot of members to new founded parties who now suddenly do have a realistic chance of actual political power. None of the established people in the parties want that. After all it’s working out just fine for them.

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              9 months ago

              Are you American? Are boomers Americans? If you say the word “us” in reference to Americans, of which you are a part, then boomers are also part of that group, and are included in “us.”

              You can use “us” to refer to any group or subgroup you’re part of, and you can say that a lot of people in a group you’re in are awful without taking any responsibility for that awfulness. A lot of us humans suck, but I like to think I’m not too bad

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                  9 months ago

                  How? I’m literally saying that a lot of Americans, boomers in particular, suck. What about that deflects blame away from boomers? I’m literally just acknowledging that they’re voting, and their votes are the bad ones