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    4 months ago

    Oh it is a democracy, but not “direct democracy”. We don’t choose what happens, we just choose who decides what happens.

    Those in power bribe, threaten, and lie, and we can’t do shit about it because the actual hood guys end due to harassment or threats and can’t deal with it psychologically.

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      4 months ago

      Oh it is a democracy, but not “direct democracy”. We don’t choose what happens, we just choose who decides what happens.

      Still not a democracy, you just described a Republic, which is what we’ve always officially been even if die hard patriots prefer to say democracy

      Those in power bribe, threaten, and lie, and we can’t do shit about it because the actual hood guys end due to harassment or threats and can’t deal with it psychologically.

      Plutocracy in action

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        Either way, society is fucked until we got nothing left but to revolt - but that will never happen, as the carrot is being dangled all the time.