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  • Buffalox@lemmy.worldtopolitics @lemmy.world•Americans aren’t facing a democratic collapse. We’re living in its aftermath
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    2 hours ago

    For tens of millions of people, democratic life has been absent for decades

    Absolutely, I’ve been arguing this point for a long time. American democracy is dysfunctional, and for decades it’s only gotten worse.
    Money = speech, gerrymandering, first past the post, making voting difficult, taking voting rights away from people in prison.

    These are all things that are clearly against democratic principles, but have been widely abused to manipulate elections in USA.

    As an example:
    Nixon wanted to limit the power of the peace movement, and one of his strongest weapons was to make cannabis illegal. That way the peace movement was disrupted in their activities, and a lot of them also prevented from voting as a bonus.
    Same principle was then continued later and doubled down on, to prevent people of color and poor people from voting.
    This is why people in prison simply have to have voting rights, otherwise you can marginalize people and keep them out of influence, on issues that are completely arbitrary, and only serve a political agenda.

    Now that cannabis is widespread among almost all demographics, it has been legalized in many states.

    USA has not been a real democracy at any point in history, which is somewhat understandable regarding its infancy, but at least in the 70’s USA should have begun to realize that their democracy needed reform, but instead USA began in the 80’s to move towards less and less democratic, and more and more authoritarian policies. Undermining the poor, workers unions, and social security that is essential for education. This is so bad now, that it is moving up and hurting the middle class too.

  • Buffalox@lemmy.worldtopolitics @lemmy.world•Americans are Now a Target in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown
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    9 hours ago

    And exactly how do you figure Americans “deserve” democracy? Democracy is not a naturally given right, it’s something you have to work for. Americans have utterly failed to do that for 50 years, where it has been obvious the American democracy is extremely dysfunctional.
    You have the government and leaders you elected. Nobody forced anybody to vote Trump. Next to nobody (only 2%) have been fighting to keep democracy, and now you are at a risk of losing it.

    Please mind that I also wrote:

    It’s sad for the ones that are more moderate and responsible, but they are a minority, and we can’t judge a country by a minority.

    I am not talking about individuals here, I very explicitly stated we can only judge based on the majority.

    But just go ahead and call me an asshole for pointing out the failures of your own people if it helps.

  • Buffalox@lemmy.worldtopolitics @lemmy.world•Oil surges above $100 a barrel; Trump says ‘small price to pay’ for defeating Iran
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    10 hours ago

    There is no way USA will defeat Iran in any meaningful sense.
    If USA put boots on the ground, it will be many times worse than Afghanistan.

    First: There are even more hiding places in the mountains of Iran than in Afghanistan, and the population is twice as big. And the area 2½ times bigger.

    Second: Iran is way better organized, and has several big well trained organizations that can be made ready for guerrilla war almost instantly.

    Third: I very seriously doubt any traditional allies to USA will be willing to support such an action. so USA will be on their own. If Israel goes in too, it will probably only make it worse.

    Fourth, there is no organized support for the invaders as USA and the allies had in Afghanistan where it was supported by the reigning government.

    It’s very doubtful the war can be won from the sky, it’s simply never been done! So the outlook for USA winning this war is bleak to put it mildly.

  • Buffalox@lemmy.worldtopolitics @lemmy.world•Americans are Now a Target in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown
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    22 hours ago

    Again you are delusional, the Scandinavian countries have worked hard on environmental issues since the 70’s. Harder than any other region in the world. For instance Denmark made the worlds first MegaWatt wind turbine, and remains the global leader on wind turbines to this day. The ONLY reason I’m not blocking your idiocy, is that I don’t want to have it un contradicted as response to my posts.
    But you are seriously delusional and unrealistic in your perception of the world.
    There are limitations to what is possible, and you seem to have absolutely zero grasp of that, like if you were a child