Who still believes the U.S. is a democracy? Seriously, you’d have to be a deluded nationalist not to see that this system has as little to do with democracy as elections in Russia do.
this post was submitted on 14 May 2026
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Who thinks they're helping anything by positing democracy as a "yes" or "no" situation? Congratulations, you have no understanding of the fragile balance it has always been.
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They got their base last year to deride everyone who mentioned US democracy with "We'Re a rEpUbLiC!" I imagined it was for making the lack of any democracy the new normal.
You'd have to participate in the democracy in a meaningful way. It's not just waiting every 4 years to vote or attending an 8 hr protest/fundraiser
I'm so tired of people still acting like everything is normal in the Untied States. After November, can the world finally acknowledge that the Untied States has been taken over by a fascist dictatorship?
Trump: "I'm going to rig the next election"
Liberals: "Damn, looks like Trump's going to rig the next election"
US media: "Liberals have fallen for a long debunked conspiracy theory about election integrity. Here's how AI can help."
Here's the polymarket odds on liberals acting on the next conspiracy...
America is way overdue for a second civil war - something nobody outside the US would give a flying fuck about if America wasn't dragging the entire world down the drain with it.
There won't be one.
In easy question to answer for yourself. Would you defend America?
Two to three entire blue generations of adults and two teen ones and they all have one thing in common.
They have no feeling of good will towards themselves from their country. They don't want a gun, they want a plane ticket.
Fuck you gimme a gun. I don’t trust the planes anymore anyway with the FAA all fired and ai in the control towers.
I love the ~~uneducated~~ poorly educated! -Trump
Actually, he said poorly educated
Faith.
Belief without evidence.
The cancer that destroys modern civilization.
Yup. If you can be tricked into believing bullshit without any evidence and mountains of evidence against it then you will believe anything the most horrible people tell you. Just look at all those Christians and Trump.
Not a coincidence that the Party of God in the US is the one devolving the country into barbarism. Same thing happened when a Party of God took control in Iran.
When one party plays by the rules and the other party doesn't, the moral victory only works when that same cheating party's entire existence isn't based on vice signaling. Since it is, maybe it's time to start showing them where their vice gets them in the real world.
The only thing stopping us from forming a new federal government is believing that the current one will follow the rules. They will not. So we should not. We need to make a new declaration of independence from the current federal. They have destroyed the original and have out down far too much for us to repair it. We must start anew.
If this election is proven to be a farse (which it's leaning to) , us Americans need to become New America and eliminate these evil people once and for all.
Remember we are agreeing to follow the rules. We do not have to if we feel the current leadership is not within our best intrest.
Keep your basic morals in place, no need for chaos to rein. Be kind, be loving, and lead with liberty and justice for all, by any means necessary.
Well, IF firehose-of-lies has the inalienable-right-to-displace-accurate-truth, THEN .. it's inescapable an endstate.
Too bad.
ELSEIF true-expression has more rights than false-expression, THEN firehose-of-lies doesn't have any inalienable-right-to-displace-accurate-truth, & then "free speech" has to be constitutionally-limited to free TRUE speech.
FAFO, humankind:
universe's going to be pruning-down this world throughout the next 1/2-century,
& whether we exist on the other side of that pruning-down, rests directly on our objectivity, correct-reasoning, pragmatism, honesty, uprightness, forbearance, accuracy, etc.
Ignorance's will .. isn't viable, in the Perfect Storm we're about to be caught-in.
& that is beautiful: universe's elegance is itself.
It weeds-out intentional-ignorances, at any scale: individual-scale, all the way up .. even planet-scale.
It makes itself clean of intentional-retardedness, no matter how ideological it is.
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Holy LLM induced psychosis Batman
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