First, democracy isn’t a binary. It’s not a case of “it’s either perfectly democratic or not democratic vat all”
Secondly, using the current day extreme thuggery of ICE as a refutation of a decrease in democracy compared to the recent past isn’t the home run you seem to think it is. In fact, it’s proof that you’re trying to hit the baseball for a field goal with a hockey stick.
I mean, it’s always been a flawed system at best, but you’d be a fool to claim that it’s not even less democratic now than it was a decade or even a year ago.
He’s cheering on them arbitrarily abusing other people and then acting all surprised when they arbitrarily abuse him and his family.
That’s textbook LAMF.
Except, you know, democracy 🤷
Nah, I’m being willfully obtuse, pretending that you meant this Lemmy post rather than the OP 😉
I know that I actually really posted it, so 1:1? 🤷
Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory world champions 25 years running!
If this sounds eerily familiar to you, you might be coming out of denial about the US or other foundationally corrupt countries with big propaganda budgets.
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No agreement with Israel is worth the typing it takes to write it down. The only government entity in the world that lies more than the IOF is the diplomats of the Israeli government.
Not even the fascist kakistocracies of Trump, Putin, or Orban are as unworthy of trust as the West’s favorite Apartheid regime.
I use it on my laptop. I like it a lot so far, but a BUNCH more testing of gaming etc will be needed before I’ll take the plunge and install it on my desktop.
Best part of the article:
being a good, respectful president working for true world peace would get him there
That would be a first in a number of ways…
“Not Dijon mustard, though. Gotta let ourselves be needlessly constrained by the baseless propaganda of the opposition!”
And I’m saying that that’s not true, while conceding the fact that it’s always been flawed.
Wrong again. You should REALLY let go of your false dichotomy that only a perfectly democratic system is a democracy at all. Otherwise you’ll never be satisfied OR right.