• Mangoholic@lemmy.ml
    9·
    23 hours ago

    A good run? 2 years of actually peace since the us existenz is your benchmark for a good run?

  • pyre@lemmy.world
    481·
    2 days ago

    “unelected”

    he got up to stage and said he bought the fascist candidate. lots of people saw that and said “that’s OK, I’ll still vote red” and even more people saw that and said “that’s OK, I’ll still not vote”. around 160 million people saw this and were OK with it. yeah he wasn’t elected, but the “dictator on day one” was.

    • Tja@programming.dev
      121·
      2 days ago

      This right here.

      They had a website for two years with a detailed plan. Project 2025 was widely known an people either voted for it or stayed at home. The dildo of consequences, as they say…

  • mlg@lemmy.worldEnglish
    346·
    2 days ago

    Democracy

    Looks inside

    Constitution written exclusively to protect monopoly business interests and prevent a monarchy

    seems legit lol

    • x00z@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      23 hours ago

      Using first-past-the-post and giving a president too much power is fragile, yes.

      Proportional election and a president with much less power is far safer. Some stuff takes a while to become a law, but at least it’ll be an actual agreement instead of an order.

    • lennybird@lemmy.worldEnglish
      9·
      1 day ago

      Democracy resisted for quite some time despite glaring problems.

      See the Business Plot of 1933 that was undermined by a Medal of Honor-recipient and Major General, Smedley Butler whom they tried to recruit for the coup.

    • Tja@programming.dev
      3·
      2 days ago

      They have been eroding education and disenfranchising voters for decades. He loves the poorly educated, you know?

    • Yerbouti@sh.itjust.works
      54·
      21 hours ago

      It was deeply flawed but it was a democracy nevertheless. It’s now a full authoritarian regime and you’ll get to realize what you’ve lost soon enough.

      • Doc_Crankenstein@slrpnk.netEnglish
        34·
        22 hours ago

        Nothing I wasn’t already losing through the systemic oppression that is the capitalist system and a hierarchical State that exists to maintains it.

        What? I’m gonna be poor and marginalized under a different system? Okay. Changes nothing for me. I’m still poor and struggling to maintain housing and eat a proper meal every day.

        The only people losing anything are the middle class who still think that the system isn’t already exploiting them and fail to understand that what is happening is the inevitable conclusion to the society we built.

        • Yerbouti@sh.itjust.works
          32·
          21 hours ago

          This is so god damn egocentric, I hope you’re not more than 14. Tell me you’re a privilege ass without telling me you’re a privilege ass.

          You will loose nothing? Good for you because:

          • Trans people lost the right to exist.
          • Indigenous people have been made invisible again
          • Immigrants are deported into camps
          • Women lost control over their own bodies
          • Minorities lost their rights
          • Groenland lost it’s security
          • Canada has it independence theaten.
          • The pollution level will rise 10x faster all over the world.
          • 1000x more examples like this

          That’s not even 1 month in. You want to play the victim, just wait to see when you’ll become one for real.

          Yes capitalism is cruel and unfair system. But the US just blew up any chance they had to ever replace it by something better or simply to make it a little less unfair. Your country will be rule by fascist dictators for decades because of childish, selfish little people like you who are incapable of intellectual nuance.

    • Eugene V. Debs' Ghost@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      181·
      2 days ago

      Democracy is when you prohibit everybody but voting except rich white slave owners!

      Reminder that our founding fathers broke off because of “taxation without representation” but then denied representation for most Americans.

      Women? “No say.” Black people? “Wait those are people?” Native Americans? “Sure they were here first but I have money.” Immigrants? “Why would I support new comers to this land my family has been here for 30 years!”

      We didn’t even used to vote for our senators, they were voted in by the state legislator, which you could vote for if your state allowed your kind to vote, but most places only allowed for certain people to vote.

      America pretends it was a democracy, when Musk and Trump just show it was all a show and it could be toppled over at any point. Most of the laws in place for offices of power were just codes of ethics with no punishment for violation. If you did break a law, the president has never really been checked, so just break more as they figure out what to do.

  • CileTheSane@lemmy.ca
    19·
    2 days ago

    The average age of an empire is 250 years, now were going to find out what’s going to replace it.

      • in4apenny@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        81·
        2 days ago

        It’s almost as though the oligarchs could afford the best lawyers and judges to write up “democratic” laws that favor them, would certainly explain everything dems/repubs have been working together to do for 50+ years while boomers are all like “Nothing to see here, too busy focusing on myself.”