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    • PZK [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      This was what I was thinking. Its like his tweets are correct in their observation of wealth inequality but falls right back into boomer logic for the conclusion.

      "Clearly, young people don't like democracy."

      Fuck off.

      • Audeamus [any]
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        4 years ago

        First Vietnam doesn't like democracy, then Iraq doesn't like it, now Americans have a problem with it! Clearly we haven't been enforcing it hard enough.

  • MolotovHalfEmpty [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Democracy is when the population has no direct impact on politics and an entire generation is scapegoated, abused, and stolen from.

    Populism, the dark counterpoint to democracy, is when politics offers people things they want and need.

    What could it possibly be about this dynamic that would have people turn their backs on democracy!?!

    :ohnoes:

    • Tankiedesantski [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      Democracy*

      *offer does not apply to Black people, native Americans, Asian Americans, women, slaves, the non-land owners, or any other group we deem unworthy. See in store for details.

  • crime [she/her, any]
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    4 years ago

    Libs stop conflating capitalism with democracy challenge

  • Coolkidbozzy [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    democracy is when there is a measurable correlation between what bills get passed and the interests of a rich minority, but no correlation with the interests of the majority

  • Evilsandwichman [none/use name]
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    4 years ago

    "Manifest Destiny n' all"

    "In Provincia Britannia, the new colony of Rome (Britain), the majority of (Romans only) citizens are dissatisfied (the heck with the natives in case you missed the implication)"

    Seriously, who brings up manifest destiny as something to take pride in? Is this guy a libertarian?

    • NotARobot [she/her]
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      4 years ago

      In Reichskommissariat Ostland, lebensraum n' all, the majority of citizens are dissatisfied!

  • MarxistHedonism [she/her]
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    4 years ago

    Part of me is like we’re in an oligarchy, not a democracy.

    But the other part of me is like I’d rather have a communist dictator anyway because I think Americans are too far gone to make any good decisions if it was actually a democracy.

    • emizeko [they/them]
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      4 years ago

      all states are class dictatorships; almost everyone the USA has called a communist dictator were subject to democratic processes within a ruling party more than politicians in their two-party bourgeois pony show are. [points at the Iowa caucus and the dem primary in general]

    • drhead [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      Most of our inability is from the wealthy having the loudest voices. Garbage in, garbage out -- if most of the info you use to vote is coming from wealthy people you'll vote for what they tell you to. Therefore bourgeois dictatorship.

      If we took money out of politics completely (and I mean more than just campaign donations -- media would at a minimum have to be worker-owned cooperatives like AP, no think tanks with millions being poured into them -- essentially make it impossible for money to buy a louder voice) that would fix things and make democracy work. I don't see it happening without full socialism or something like it though. And it's tough for reformists because the first step towards fixing it would be the repeal of Citizens United v. FEC, which will require an amendment -- without that literally EVERY step we could take in that direction would be a slam dunk court case against reformists.

  • RamrodBaguette [comrade/them, he/him]
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    4 years ago

    I don't stan Gandhi but I think his "Western Civilization" quote fits just as well if you replace 'Civilization' with 'Democracy'.