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minus-squarextr0n@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up81·1 day ago USA is also a democracy Is it though?
minus-squareHayduke@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up54·1 day agoIt’s a plutocracy disguised as a democracy
minus-squarececilkorik@piefed.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up17·22 hours agoIt’s a democracy where dollars are considered citizens and allowed to vote.
minus-squarebackalleycoyote@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14·22 hours agoWhere corporations are people and women are baby factories.
minus-squarewonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·20 hours agoTechnokleptoplutokakistocracy
minus-squareResonosity@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·3 hours agoGerontechnokleptoplugokakistocracy
minus-squarewonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 hours agoNepogerontechnokleptoplutokakistocracy
minus-squaresamus12345@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·21 hours agoThose are not mutually exclusive. It’s both.
minus-squareMadison420@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·edit-221 hours agoNo one said it was mutually exclusive and technically “but yeah” is an agreement so what am I missing?
minus-squaresamus12345@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·21 hours ago“but yeah” implies a correction to me.
minus-squareflandish@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up25·22 hours agoamerican here: it is not a democracy. also, FUCK ISRAEL
minus-squaresamus12345@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14·21 hours agoUSA claims to be a democracy.
minus-squareBuffalox@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·23 hours agoIt’s a dysfunctional democracy. So it’s absolutely not a good democracy.
minus-squareleoj@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·24 hours agoI think the term is “contested democracy”
minus-squareHubertManne@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14·24 hours agoyeah its more like a democracy in process of facist takeover. Its a grey area.
Is it though?
It’s a plutocracy disguised as a democracy
It’s a democracy where dollars are considered citizens and allowed to vote.
Where corporations are people and women are baby factories.
Kakistocracy but yeah.
Technokleptoplutokakistocracy
Gerontechnokleptoplugokakistocracy
Nepogerontechnokleptoplutokakistocracy
I mean yeah, not wrong.
Those are not mutually exclusive. It’s both.
No one said it was mutually exclusive and technically “but yeah” is an agreement so what am I missing?
“but yeah” implies a correction to me.
american here: it is not a democracy. also, FUCK ISRAEL
Democrazy
USA claims to be a democracy.
It’s a dysfunctional democracy. So it’s absolutely not a good democracy.
I think the term is “contested democracy”
yeah its more like a democracy in process of facist takeover. Its a grey area.
A brown area.