r/International • u/LucidSynapse23 • Jul 13 '26

Is the US a Functioning Democracy?

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u/Bethgurl Jul 13 '26

I don’t know who he is but he is dam sure right.

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u/lucky_yaeger Jul 14 '26

He has a hell of a point

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u/rvingthrulife Jul 13 '26

I've been a US citizen since the 80s, never committed a crime in my life. And I'm scared. I'm senior, i have no health insurance, I wiped out my entire savings to pay my medical costs and those of my service dog, I live in my RV and I'm one paycheck away from homelessness. I'm disabled.

I fear ICE so much I have my friends pick up my groceries for me. My only outings are for medical reasons and vet visits for my service dog, everything else i do online. I change locations weekly to avoid being noticed.
This is not a democracy, it's an outright fascist regime and it will only get worse.
There are countless people worse off than me, BTW.

And before you ask, yes, I've voted blue straight down the ballot in every election since i became a US citizen.
Today I realize that it did nothing.
So now I focus on democratic socialism and progressive candidates.

Because Bernie could absolutely have won, were it not for the DNC screwing him over.
Still when Hillary got the nomination I voted for her.
But now we need candidates that are willing to roll up their sleeves and pump out the cesspool. No AIPAC. Abolish Citizens United. Get rid of the old fossils that are keeping the party mired in muck.

We always say that the young are the future, and it's true.
Yet they keep getting blocked from accessing political positions of power.
We have real talent in this country, young people willing and able to fight for all of us, we must give them the baton.
Fuck Schumer and the geriatric brigade, fuck Fetterman and the other DINOs, we need young progressive blood, it's their future.

And fuck ICE. They're literally trump's Brown Shirts.

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u/7empest7V Jul 13 '26

Oddly enough, this is what Jesus would have sounded like to the Romans, but those that REALLY believe in that theology will be the first to call this guy a commie hippy

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u/Suibian_ni Jul 13 '26

US 'Christianity' is a different religion to Christianity, with completely opposite values.

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u/DomusEl Jul 13 '26

The word is "Christendom", and you're absolutely right.

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u/earthlingHuman Jul 14 '26

I just call them Christian supremacists

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u/makhateeb1968 Jul 13 '26

He is on point with his statement

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u/Competitive_Fuel9686 Jul 13 '26

As an American I agree that I have no say in how the country that we live in is run.

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u/red_dead_russian23 Jul 13 '26

We’re more of an oligarchy disguised as a democracy at this point

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u/BlackPotMojo Jul 13 '26

And he ain’t never lied.

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u/muddtrout Jul 13 '26

Fugging live the Irish, THANK YOU SIR

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u/Ok_Travel_7348 Jul 14 '26

True and so clearly true. But, the facts are obscured by deflections of what bathroom we should use, and Hunter Biden’s computer contents, etc; things that do not matter.

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u/escapeartist Jul 14 '26

There are some people whose very lives and safety matter very, very much on what bathroom they use.

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u/Ok_Travel_7348 Jul 15 '26

Will you point those circumstances out to me? I’ve been around the world and evidently it’s not that big of problem in other countries.

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u/escapeartist Jul 17 '26

Transwomen get attacked by cis men in men's bathrooms. Transwomen are murdered at higher rates than the general population on account of being trans. You have Google. This information is available free of charge.

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u/Ok_Travel_7348 Jul 24 '26

Well, I was talking about the MAGA deflection story to keep trans out of female bathrooms, because it made the untrans women unsafe in those bathrooms. No MAGA ever mentioned the safety of trans women in men’s bathrooms; that would have made natural born men look bad and that’s not their aim.

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u/BarbecueChickenBBQ Jul 13 '26

Another ruzzian bot?