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Report: Trump mad RFK Jr. hasn’t cut more vaccines or proven autism link (arstechnica.com)
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[–] 8 points 2 months ago (5 children)

You gotta understand the US' version of democracy hasn't functioned properly in decades. I don't know what all happened; seems like a culmination of things.

I mean, "the people" didn’t promote him to the head of the GOP presidential lineup. When he did something disrespectful and disgusting, he wasn't dismissed by his party. He just assumed control. His words were repeated and analyzed by every news station as if he had merit. His wasn't a grassroots movement, it was plotted & paid for by who knows (I'm assuming corporations & foreigners powers).

Not to mention his uproar over voting machines during Biden's entire term - I struggle to believe the same fascists pushing & investigating these machines & corporations for years prior to the election actually won said election.

"Stark raving mad"? Maybe. "Delusional"? Also maybe. But I think more than anything the population is the victim of a broken government.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago

    There's no good evidence of widespread voting shenanigans (yet; I'm worried about future elections). Trump was popular in rural US, and that pretty much explains everything. I agree with everything else you said though. There's a ton of evidence of foreign meddling, and all the dark money in politics is basically legalized election influence for the wealthy.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 months ago* (1 child)

    I mean, “the people” didn’t promote him to the head of the GOP presidential lineup.

    They did, though. How do you think that happened? He was voted for in Republican primaries.

    You believing in "election fraud" is more destructive to our government than not. Believing wild bullshit without evidence is what you criticize in one breath and then actively do in the next.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago

    I think your blind faith is more destructive than my hunch, so I guess we come out even, eh? Who put Trump there to begin with? Who allowed him to run on the GOP ticket at all? Who convinced his rivals to drop out so they could get positions in the new regime?

    "The people" have been convinced they're in a competition where the 'other side' wants to ruin their lives. To far too many Americans, it's not a choice of good or bad, it's "Red or Dead". The people sure as shit didn’t spontaneously divide themselves bitterly along party lines.

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  • [–] -1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 child)

    Claiming the population as a whole is victim of the government they themselves elect is circular logic. And makes it an obviously false proposition.
    Yes democracy in USA is dysfunctional, but it is still a representative democracy.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago

    It's functional and it is a democracy, the biggest problem is the first-past-the-post system. Most of other forms of democracy seem to work better but we're super wrapped up in tradition and nationalism so people get offended if you suggest something could be improved.

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