Because the admins are censorious bastards? 🤷

Nah, he’s apparently just THAT charming and eloquent! 🤷

Yeah, it must be quite jarring to go from this badass

to Kiwi Trump in just a couple years!

A racist trying to make it look like he was the victim of a hate crime. That’s a Mississippi state flag in front of him, Confederate version.

NOT familiar at all! Nuh-uh!

Idunno, probably some Purdue Pharma reps that would have preferred another source of income too 🤷🏻

Or in their car wearing sunglasses.

i’m trying to say, at a federal level, we have never actually had democracy

And I’m saying that that’s not true, while conceding the fact that it’s always been flawed.

250 years of history containing oligarchs, capitalism, class warfare, racism, and manufactured consent does not leave room for any level of actual democracy.

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.

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.