Harris actually got more votes than Biden in most of the key swing states. Can we stop this narrative of blaming anyone other than the tens of millions that actually picked Trump?
Oh my God shut the fuck up unless fewer people voted Dem in swing states... which they didn't. Stop refusing to address your addiction to moderation.
Points at SCOTUS. Electoral College. Winner-Takes-All underrepresentation. 100 years legal slavery, 100 years racial segregation. 150 years gendered voting rights.
How cute, OP thinks the US has been a democracy for the last 250 years.
we had a good run
Did you, though?
The rich guys did, it's even getting better for them.
"unelected"
he got up to stage and said he bought the fascist candidate. lots of people saw that and said "that's OK, I'll still vote red" and even more people saw that and said "that's OK, I'll still not vote". around 160 million people saw this and were OK with it. yeah he wasn't elected, but the "dictator on day one" was.
This right here.
They had a website for two years with a detailed plan. Project 2025 was widely known an people either voted for it or stayed at home. The dildo of consequences, as they say...
democracy
Looks inside
oligarchy
And completely broken and idiotic and easily manipulated voting system.
It's almost as though the oligarchs could afford the best lawyers and judges to write up "democratic" laws that favor them, would certainly explain everything dems/repubs have been working together to do for 50+ years while boomers are all like "Nothing to see here, too busy focusing on myself."
"Democracy"
Democracy
Looks inside
Constitution written exclusively to protect monopoly business interests and prevent a monarchy
seems legit lol
Yeah I'm sure that giving rights to everyone (amendments are part of the Constitution!) was purely for business interests ...
Capitalism's natural and unavoidable end stage.
I like to blame capitalism for everything, too, but this has nothing to do with capitalism. Just the US Democracy not being a Democracy
Capitalism worsens the principal agent problem of representative democracy because it's trivial to bribe representatives, especially now.
The richest people being the oligarchs has nothing to do with capitalism?
People who believe in 250 years of democracy enable systemic racism, patriarchy, etc.
Libs, please grow up.
Democracy is when you prohibit everybody but voting except rich white slave owners!
Reminder that our founding fathers broke off because of "taxation without representation" but then denied representation for most Americans.
Women? "No say." Black people? "Wait those are people?" Native Americans? "Sure they were here first but I have money." Immigrants? "Why would I support new comers to this land my family has been here for 30 years!"
We didn't even used to vote for our senators, they were voted in by the state legislator, which you could vote for if your state allowed your kind to vote, but most places only allowed for certain people to vote.
America pretends it was a democracy, when Musk and Trump just show it was all a show and it could be toppled over at any point. Most of the laws in place for offices of power were just codes of ethics with no punishment for violation. If you did break a law, the president has never really been checked, so just break more as they figure out what to do.
It was deeply flawed but it was a democracy nevertheless. It's now a full authoritarian regime and you'll get to realize what you've lost soon enough.
Nothing I wasn't already losing through the systemic oppression that is the capitalist system and a hierarchical State that exists to maintains it.
What? I'm gonna be poor and marginalized under a different system? Okay. Changes nothing for me. I'm still poor and struggling to maintain housing and eat a proper meal every day.
The only people losing anything are the middle class who still think that the system isn't already exploiting them and fail to understand that what is happening is the inevitable conclusion to the society we built.
Lol the democracy part didn't even start until 1965.
Even then, its more like Democracy Lite™.
The average age of an empire is 250 years, now were going to find out what's going to replace it.
Well, not some of us I’m sure.
The Forever Purge™
USA is a kakistocracy of the oligarchs
Change my mind
Kekistocracy
I'll be polite. That's not an accurate repository of those 250 years; the second part us alright.
A good run? 2 years of actually peace since the us existenz is your benchmark for a good run?
Amerikkka never had real democracy
There is an interesting analysis of the ideology of the techbro's (youtube) backing Trump, who actually do want to destroy the US. I'm kinda shocked how well this explains things, and haven't found a good written article yet (but haven't been looking).
Did we all forget the elected one put the unelected one in power?
Let's be honest, it is efficient! /s
Democracy is inherently tied to progress.
I'm considering that progress on Earth will slow down or come to a halt in the long-term, thus taking away Democracy with it.
I believe that Space Flight is the only viable option for long-term progress, and that it will bring Democracy with it. That is actually the major reason why i'm looking forward to Mars Settlement projects.
No, we shouldn't infect the galaxy with Capitalism.
Why do we need to expand, when we don't even have stuff sorted here? By expanding now, aren't we just spreading shit?
