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Why Do We Tolerate Elon Musk’s Racist Commentary? (www.nytimes.com)
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[–] -2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

The majority are not fascists,

Voting says otherwise when they voted this shit in all the way to majorities in the Senate, house and presidency.
They may not be fascists, but they condone all the symptoms of fascism in their voting.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    Voting, especially federal, in the US is far from fair, and cannot be used as a metric to measure the actual desires of the majority.

    The Senate is tipped hard in favor of rural states, where populations are more fascist. House districts are gerrymandered to hell because, again, rural state legislatures tend to favor the fascists for the same rural reasons. Voter disenfranchisement (applied in a variety of ways) is high as a result of the extensive fascist organization; they know when fewer people vote, fascists are more likely to win.

    Combine that with low levels of media literacy and plenty of propaganda (again, for decades), and you get the election outcomes we see.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 week ago*

    Voting, especially federal, in the US is far from fair,

    Doesn't change the fact that Psychopathy was elected over boring to gran Republicans majority in the the Senate and the house and they won the presidency.
    that's not a mistake because of a bad voting system, that is systematic endorsement of psychopathic behavior by the American population.

    You can make a thousand excuses, but they don't change that one simple fact.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    The first past the post system kinda focuses in on radical ends of things. It makes moderate positions not make sense to campaign or even vote for.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    True, which is why Americans should have solved their democratic deficit decades ago, instead of first considering after they are at risk of losing it altogether.
    The effect is well known, and the American founding fathers chose that idiotic system ON PURPOSE!!! Because they wanted a strong government with the ability to take action.

    They can be excused for not knowing better, as democracy wasn't as well understood back then. But USA has had 250 years to modify it towards a fairer more representative democracy.
    I freaking learned about it in public school in Denmark in the 70's!!! It's been common knowledge for probably a century.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 week ago (1 child)

    You may not have learned that the American Revolution was fought between the British and thirteen separate colonies that each considered themselves to be sovereign. The original organizing document was the Articles of Confederation, which created a very weak federal "government" that was responsible for just a few things, but without the authority to raise funds from the Several States to actually do any of those things.

    The US Constitution didn't take effect until March 1789, and it contains the Electoral College and the Senate specifically so that the States (wanting to maintain some semblance of sovereignty) would ratify it.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 week ago* (1 child)

    2026-1789=237 years.

    Close enough. And yes the idea of states maintaining some autonomy is not the problem. EU has the same and even more protection of the rights of member states, completely without the democratic shortcomings of USA.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    I wasn't bickering over the number of years. You may just not be aware that state sovereignty in the US was a really big deal until at least the 1870s, and continued to be a pretty big deal for some time after. The US is 50 countries in a trench coat.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 week ago

    The US is 50 countries in a trench coat.
    Not really since the constitutions doesn't allow any state to secede, they have abandoned their independence and sovereignty.
    There are so called state rights, except of course the Republicans shit on that when they are in power, and complain about it wildly when they are not.
    Republicans behave like spoiled children, and half the population is doing the same.

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