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lol, "functioning".
also lol, "democracy"
Hartmann will never stop believing in liberal democracy because it is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.
“Functioning democracy” 🤡
Yeah, one could argue that a functioning democracy would prevent the kind of wealth gap we have.
Or, you know, someone who looses the popular vote to loose an election.
Or, multiple parties that actually have different platforms.
There was the big election where the sitting president was replaced. I guess that's something.
Except when it doesn't happen:
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Bush II did not win the election, he was appointed before the recounts were even tallied.
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Trump was appointed to the presidency after losing the election in 2016 to Hillary Clinton by the Electoral College. Hilary won by 3M votes or 2% of the vote.
Literally two presidents during my lifetime failed to win the popular vote and every time this occurred it was to the benefit of a largely unpopular political party who used technicalities built into the Constitution to overturn the democratic will of the people. Funny how it never has worked in the opposite direction, almost as if it was built-in with that idea in mind.
We do not have a democracy, we have a sham system that puts the interests of business before the interests of people.
But your system isn't based on direct popular vote for the president. You vote for state electors and then they vote directly and the candidate who gets the majority of those votes wins. It's not a failure of democracy or elections not happening or being rigged if one with the simple majority loses to one with more state elector votes. It's just your weird system at work.
We do not have a democracy
You've had a few swings of the balance of the parties, replacing a sitting president and now upcoming presidential elections. The elections are mostly free and fair with large enfranchisement. I'd call that a democracy, even when the system has some interesting quirks and isn't working as well as it could be.
As for Bush vs Gore, I remember it being a big and controversial thing at the time but don't really know the specifics.
I find it ironic that they chose to use an AI generated image rather than pay a photographer or an artist.
Or a model who is actually representative of the poorest people that they are trying to illustrate the plight of.
is that fake old white guy not homeless-looking enough for your standards?
No lol the fake person is plenty homeless-looking... But it's a fake person.
Ah fair enough.
I think this is just one guy not a corporation.
I used they rather than he or she because I did not want to assume a gender.
So you're telling us we're number one?
American exceptionalism baby
Lmao
Think about it, you could be out helping instead of counting suffering as a win for yourself. I guess you do you 🤡
I don't live in your shithole country. I just watch the clown show from the outside.
Oh no, you insulted the same country I insult daily, I am so hurt.
The cool thing is me being able to shit talk my own country for their errors. I do it more than any other country on the planet. You'll never know the feeling that gives you.
It's true I'll never know what it's like to be a deranged American. I'm thankful for that every day.
People, we have a Canuck modding our comm. We can no longer sit back and allow Canadian infiltration, Canadian indoctrination, Canadian subversion, and the international Canadian conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids.
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Saddest part is this will get no attention. Nothing, absolutely nothing, will be done about this.
this post was submitted on 13 Feb 2024
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