• queermunist she/her
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    6 hours ago

    Is it democratic when the largest state and the smallest state both get two senators?

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          5 hours ago

          God, shut up nerd, like your red fascist bullshit and their one party elections were or are better. Do you want to hear that it’s a flawed system? It is. All states are and should be abolished.

          Still a type of democracy, and still more democratic than anything Russia or China have ever managed.

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            31 seconds ago

            The United States was founded as a white supremacist settler-colony. This shit is the same as calling Israel a democracy.

            How come the US can be “flawed” but China is “red fascist”? The US is white fascist. You want to talk about fascism? The US’s prison population is higher than either the USSR was or China is, and under Trump it’s going to get worse! Where’s the democracy for the millions of undocumented workers that the US relies on to run its economy, that the US is gearing up to round up by the millions into prison camps? Where’s their democracy? Where’s the democracy for the hundreds of thousands of child brides and child laborers all across the US? Half a million children pick almost a quarter of the food currently produced in the United States!

            Trump didn’t even get 50% of the vote, and now he’s in charge of everything. “Democracy”

            We have to accept that the US is not democratic. It’s reformed fascism, and those reforms are in danger right now. If you ever want the US to be a democracy you need to recognize this and protect the democratic reforms we have.

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          Uhhh yeah. The Constitution establishes a federal democratic republic form of government. That is, we have an indivisible union of 50 sovereign States. It is a democracy because people govern themselves. It is representative because people choose elected officials by free and secret ballot.

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            8 minutes ago

            It’s democracy when only white men are allowed to choose representatives? What?

            It’s settler-colonialism. Fascism. Where was the democracy for the Natives? Or the slaves? The original system has had many democratic reforms, but denying its roots as fundamentally undemocratic is historical revisionism and blinds you to the US’s flaws. You’ll never fix this country’s problems if you can’t even recognize this.