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    “unelected”

    he got up to stage and said he bought the fascist candidate. lots of people saw that and said “that’s OK, I’ll still vote red” and even more people saw that and said “that’s OK, I’ll still not vote”. around 160 million people saw this and were OK with it. yeah he wasn’t elected, but the “dictator on day one” was.

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      Democracy resisted for quite some time despite glaring problems.

      See the Business Plot of 1933 that was undermined by a Medal of Honor-recipient and Major General, Smedley Butler whom they tried to recruit for the coup.

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      Using first-past-the-post and giving a president too much power is fragile, yes.

      Proportional election and a president with much less power is far safer. Some stuff takes a while to become a law, but at least it’ll be an actual agreement instead of an order.

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    26 days ago

    Democracy

    Looks inside

    Constitution written exclusively to protect monopoly business interests and prevent a monarchy

    seems legit lol

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    Dude losses an election and it’s instantly “everybody I don’t like is Hitler” combined with the end of democracy as we know it lmao 🤣

    And then you wonder why people don’t take you guys seriously outside of your echo chamber.