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  • phoenixarise@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    When shit gets real they “didn’t vote for it.” I cannot think of a more irresponsible group of idiots than republicans.

    • jabeez@lemmy.today
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      2 days ago

      No no no, they’re the party of “personal responsibility”, remember? And “family values”, right? They have no core values, they’re a cult and will believe whatever their propaganda networks tell them to.

    • stoly@lemmy.world
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      2 days ago

      That thread was a mess but exactly what is expected from the sort of people enabled by spez.

  • FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    If you voted Democrat or Republican you 100% voted for this.

    You’ve sat through an entire generation now of presidents just deciding to involve us in wars, and in fact, several wars at once.

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    3 days ago

    Reminds me of Stellaris. Fucking vassal states. What genius left the ‘can declare war’ setting on ?

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      3 days ago

      Can Determined Exterminators become vassals? I thought they didn’t do stuff like diplomacy with anything but their own kind?

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      3 days ago

      Worse, some dumbass set the “Join their wars” to “All” instead of “None”

  • Lembot_0003@lemmy.zip
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    3 days ago

    Representative democracy isn’t about voting “for this shit”, it is about electing a king who then do whatever he pleases. And it isn’t the USA problem, it is the “representative democracy” problem. It is just happen that you have a remarkably stupid king at the moment.

    • breecher@sh.itjust.works
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      3 days ago

      Don’t confuse your rotten kleptocracy with how representative democracy works in civilised countries.

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      3 days ago

      Both all representative democracies have a single elected individual with supreme power. The US isn’t meant to either.

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            3 days ago

            But they all are. That is the very essence of the “representative” democracy. You’re totally correct saying about “single elected individual” but having 200 “single elected individuals” doesn’t change much – they still do whatever they want. Your job is limited to throwing a bulletin in the vote box. After that, you are completely out of control, and all you can do is to wait until the next elections or make a revolution.

            • limelight79@lemmy.world
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              3 days ago

              You seem to post a lot of incorrect information.

              In the US system of government, the President’s power is supposed to be checked by Congress and the Supreme Court. In other words, you’re not giving supreme executive power to just one person. Unfortunately since Republicans practically always do what Trump wants, we’ve lost that check.

              • Lembot_0003@lemmy.zip
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                3 days ago

                1 person or 200 persons – it doesn’t matter much. It wasn’t the point. The point is that those persons are completely safe to ignore the citizens.

    • ikidd@lemmy.worldOP
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      3 days ago

      That’s the part that still amazes me, a decade after he was first elected. If you asked someone 15 years ago “Who in popular culture should not be in charge of the most powerful country in the western world?” the answer would have had a high probability of being this piece of shit. What is inherently wrong with a culture that elects this fucking trainwreck TWICE?

        • stoly@lemmy.world
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          2 days ago

          This is something important that a lot of people don’t understand. Trump genuinely represents roughly 50% of the US public; they all want to be him.

      • YappyMonotheist@lemmy.world
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        3 days ago

        Honest stupidity bordering on developmental issues plus a complete lack of morals and fixed ideology which means anything goes as long as it seems popular (sheep stay with the herd).