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When shit gets real they “didn’t vote for it.” I cannot think of a more irresponsible group of idiots than republicans.
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No no no, they're the party of "personal responsibility", remember? And "family values", right? They have no core values, they're a cult and will believe whatever their propaganda networks tell them to.
If your “client” state provokes a war for you to get involved in, that makes you the client state.
Why are you linking to reddit?
Just to piss you off.
Fuck Reddit and fuck Spez.
That thread was a mess but exactly what is expected from the sort of people enabled by spez.
If you voted Democrat or Republican you 100% voted for this.
You've sat through an entire generation now of presidents just deciding to involve us in wars, and in fact, several wars at once.
People who argue both sides do not have a genuine opinion, they are just parroting what others have said.
You're welcome to gaslight yourself, but I haven't slept through the last thirty years.
Clearly you have, since you were asleep while fascism walked in the door and made itself at home.
lol you just spouted terminology at me
President Jill Stein will fix it all. /s
You say that, but she'd actually do what she intends if elected. You know Democrats and Republicans will not.
she'd actually do what she intends
She already did what she intended. Donald Trump made it into office in 2016.
"I don't know how first past the post works"
Democrats: 1 + 1 = 2, Republicans: 1 + 1 = 3, Moderates: 1 + 1 = 2.5.
Bothsidesrthesame!!!
You're pointing out a few flawed Democrat officials, not what the majority of voters believe. The Overton window is shifted too far right for us to have a better option.
It's not a "flaw" they know exactly what they're doing and they keep doing it
If the voters won't remove their support of a candidate for their actions they support that candidate. Not a hard concept.
The irony of your reply is that the only modern president to purposely disengage us from Bush and Obama's entrenched wars was Donald, most notably in Syria and Afghanistan. Obama even started calling US soldiers 'advisors' so he could keep tens of thousands deployed in Iraq and still pretend the war was over.
But you're just going to ignore that and pretend that, sure, Democrats are the rational ones when it comes to US wars.
I'm apt to generally not trust the party that spews disinformation, flawed economic policy, erosion of civil rights, and anti science pro religion. I'm not apt to trust the party or candidate that lies intentionally far more often and used voter purging to cheat in the 2024 election, the one with a playbook straight from 1930s Germany.
But sure, pretend that Republicans are generally better because of a few, hyper specific, cherry picked ideas relating only to US foreign military policy. For a limited time span. By your logic all non NATO members should be annexed by Israel and Russia tomorrow to avoid any further hassle.
You were inviting a rational, historical rebuttal by posting nonsense in the first place.
Actually your comment is vague nonsense and convincing no one. I've never seen so many words have absolutely no content.
Projection
The obvious solution is to only vote for server side solutions voted on by users.
Reminds me of Stellaris. Fucking vassal states. What genius left the 'can declare war' setting on ?
Can Determined Exterminators become vassals? I thought they didn't do stuff like diplomacy with anything but their own kind?
Worse, some dumbass set the "Join their wars" to "All" instead of "None"
Representative democracy isn't about voting "for this shit", it is about electing a king who then do whatever he pleases. And it isn't the USA problem, it is the "representative democracy" problem. It is just happen that you have a remarkably stupid king at the moment.
Don't confuse your rotten kleptocracy with how representative democracy works in civilised countries.
Accurate but a bit mean/aggressive.
Do I upvote or downvote?
No, be mean to dumb people
Cruel* people. One is a transient condition. The other, a choice.
Also be sure to stop once they stop, otherwise you become the bully yourself. Don’t ask me how I know.
Not all representative democracies have a single elected individual with supreme power. The US isn't meant to either.
Eh... Both who? Isn't meant for what? Rephrase please...
*not all
But they all are. That is the very essence of the "representative" democracy. You're totally correct saying about "single elected individual" but having 200 "single elected individuals" doesn't change much -- they still do whatever they want. Your job is limited to throwing a bulletin in the vote box. After that, you are completely out of control, and all you can do is to wait until the next elections or make a revolution.
You seem to post a lot of incorrect information.
In the US system of government, the President's power is supposed to be checked by Congress and the Supreme Court. In other words, you're not giving supreme executive power to just one person. Unfortunately since Republicans practically always do what Trump wants, we've lost that check.
1 person or 200 persons -- it doesn't matter much. It wasn't the point. The point is that those persons are completely safe to ignore the citizens.
That is blatantly false. You have just gotten used to the corruption in your shithole country.
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