Amnesigenic
@Amnesigenic@lemmy.world
- Comment on Are Autocracies more powerful than Democracies? 1 month ago:
Learn to read dipshit
- Comment on Are Autocracies more powerful than Democracies? 1 month ago:
If your representatives aren’t in any way obligated to vote in accord with the wishes or best interests of the people they represent then it’s definitely not any kind of democracy
- Comment on Are Autocracies more powerful than Democracies? 1 month ago:
A 1 to 1 vote to citizen ratio that is the actual determining factor in decision making, the electoral college alone completely destroys any argument for the US being a democracy just by existing, and we’ve had that bullshit running since day one
- Comment on Are Autocracies more powerful than Democracies? 1 month ago:
- Incorrect, fixed definitions don’t stay fixed forever, that doesn’t mean they aren’t fixed right now. Words mean things, if a word changes meaning in a generation or two or five it’ll mean fuck all for you right here and now. 2.The US is not a democracy at all and never was. It was arguably at various points in time a representative republic, not a particularly good one but that’s not part of the definition. 3.I don’t care what you think, I know you’re using the term loosely that’s my point, fucking duh
- Comment on Are Autocracies more powerful than Democracies? 1 month ago:
Wrong
- Comment on Are Autocracies more powerful than Democracies? 1 month ago:
Literally all communication depends on how you define the terms you use, that’s the whole point of having fixed definitions for words, and the US absolutely does not fit any reasonable definition of a democracy
- Comment on Are Autocracies more powerful than Democracies? 1 month ago:
The US has never been a democracy, we’ve never been a particularly equitable representative republic either and our government was designed this way on purpose
- Comment on China aims to recruit top US scientists as Trump tries to kill the CHIPS Act 1 month ago:
The US is not better than China, and there’s absolutely no evidence for anything close to a genocide in Xinjiang, if there was then the UN investigatiors sent specifically to find it would probably have found it