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Is this a coup? Home of the Coup-o-meter (isthisacoup.com)

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[-] 79luca79@lemm.ee 2 points 9 hours ago

im euro. Most of my short Life i have looked up to the USA . I thought:"Wow, USA!" I was happy we were allied and in Nato, that we would defend eachother and grow ever closer.

I have never imagined that there could be a Man like Trump in power or that there would be a potential Coup? I thought thats only in Russia, China or some third world shithole!

Well, anyway i became disillusioned. The USA isnt perfect. I was to naiv. obviously.

[-] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 55 points 4 weeks ago

Damn thing's busted. If you can imagine an administration that acts like this ever peacefully ceding a lost election, you're crazier than me.

[-] Piatro@programming.dev 18 points 4 weeks ago

That's assuming you even get a fair election again.

[-] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 23 points 4 weeks ago

Is a fair election when a violent insurrectionist, a literal traitor to the republic, is allowed to run for office?

We zigged when we should have zagged a long time ago.

[-] Chocrates@lemmy.world 5 points 4 weeks ago

The American system is broken by design

[-] voracitude@lemmy.world 2 points 4 weeks ago

No, it's been broken; the original design wasn't bad, but they told us not to let a two party system happen and we did it anyway.

[-] Chocrates@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago

The original does not protect against an entire party determined to undermine it, imo

[-] TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 weeks ago

isnt that what the "overthrow the government" part is for?
Not like we could actually do that anyways 🙃

[-] voracitude@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Yes it does, it has quite clear instructions in fact. People just aren't willing to do what's necessary to follow those instructions... Yet.

[-] Zorque@lemmy.world 3 points 4 weeks ago

We definitely should have several large books at him... but also 75 million people shouldn't have voted for him.

[-] Tgo_up@lemm.ee 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

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[-] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

People are systematically, deliberately denied votes in every American election. Their entire voting system was a compromise with slave states. American elections are bad by design.

And yes, let's also highlight the fact that a violent insurrectionist was allowed to run for office. Putting it mildly, that is not a sign of a healthy normal election.

If you're going to hate Americans be my guest, but hate them for tolerating the existing system at all. It's a structurally unjust society from the ground up and they're ridiculous for tolerating it.

[-] Tgo_up@lemm.ee 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

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[-] queermunist@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

To help put things into perspective for you, Trump didn't even get a majority of the vote. Normal countries have runoff elections if no one reaches a majority, but not the US!

And of course he's only a politician today because when he ran in the 2016 race he was appointed President by the electoral college despite not even getting a plurality of the vote that time. He's actually never gotten 50%+ of voters to vote for him.

The system is structured this way so that the slave-ocracy could elect presidents.