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The office of US president has become meaningless … it’s the people with all the money who control the inner workings of government that have the power … they just allow everyone else to elect a meaningless figurehead to throw rotten vegetables at.

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givesomefucks@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
This ain’t new and it ain’t unique to America:

The President in particular is very much a figurehead — he wields no real power whatsoever. He is apparently chosen by the government, but the qualities he is required to display are not those of leadership but those of finely judged outrage. For this reason the President is always a controversial choice, always an infuriating but fascinating character. His job is not to wield power but to draw attention away from it. On those criteria Zaphod Beeblebrox is one of the most successful Presidents the Galaxy has ever had — he has already spent two of his ten presidential years in prison for fraud.

The difference is some of us have been talking about it for decades…

Some just figured it out in the last year, but are often beligerently resist to the people who saw it way before them, and completely refuse to believe there may be other things they haven’t noticed yet.

If people think any of what is happening right now is new or unique, they need to spend a lot more time reading (actual books too) and less time typing.

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