• Infynis@midwest.social
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          4 months ago

          Homie doesn’t get that the distinction is meaningless, especially when most European countries don’t elect their heads of government to begin with, and America’s elections are pretty much built to favor the right, because they’re never popular enough to win the popular vote

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            4 months ago

            My point here is that the USA is basically a warlord state dressed up in “first-world” clothes. You all seem to take assassinations in stride while being blissfully unaware of how anomalous this is compared to other countries.

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      4 months ago

      It feels like the only parallel left is that soon we’re going to find out Trump University was created because no other school would let him into their art program