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Implying that democracy is a bad thing because there are places where it doesn't work all too well is just stupid.
there are places where it doesn’t work all too well
There are places that claim to be democratic where it doesn't work AT ALL. The US is one of them.
We're not implying democracy is bad. We're implying that calling the US a democracy is an insult to democracy.
It's also a response to the US routinely claiming other places are undemocratic, heavily implied that they can only get more democratic if they become more like the US (and if they feel strongly enough about it they'll straight up carpet bomb you to "make you more democratic.") Like shut the fuck up you're not the shining example of democracy that you think you are.
i think this comment was meant to be ironic, as replacing democracy with socialism aligns with my beliefs. maybe im wrong tho
It isn't implying that democracy is a bad thing, but instead that democracy within capitalism is just democracy for the capitalist class and dictatorship for the working classes.
We have this abject poverty in germany. Uninsured/under insured migrant workers that get permanently disabled doing construction work. Elderly people writhing in pain unable to access any medication alone at home while their daughter goes to a cleaning work to get enough to eat for themselves. A breastfeeding mom except she isn't really breastfeeding because she wasn't able to come up with anything to eat other than some cookies for three days straight. Some example from my moms work helping a doctors without borders affiliated ngo that works with some doctors that donate their time pro bono by translating for patients that have no insurance.
It exists, but it's well hidden. But these people pick our crops, clean our offices, build our houses, they're the ones that make our socitey function.
ACAB includes farmers btw, death to Germany.
Democracy by today’s standards.
In the US, that means not allowing felons to vote. Limited opportunity, selective policing, and biased punishments lead to a huge disparity between felony convictions by race.
Does that sound like democracy that you want? The Ancient Greeks also had democracy that wouldn’t pass the sniff test because they didn’t let women vote.
You are aware that countries outside the US exist?
So does your country, today, consider the US a democracy? I’ve got a strong suspicion that it’s the country I live in, and unfortunately yes, they do.
I get annoyed about American defaultism too, but how many times does the post need to mention the US for it to be allowed to complain about American problems?
The German government officially does. I'm pretty sure they have a pretty realistic picture of what they're really dealing with, even though they won't say that out loud. And yes, of course there's plenty of things wrong with US democracy (and German democracy for that matter) but you should always make clear what you're talking about specifically.
It’s not my post, but the US is broadly considered a democracy by today’s standards when it absolutely shouldn’t be. Not even only governments, the amount of Schadenfreude I hear about Americans who are “getting what they voted for” is wild.
I only mentioned felony disenfranchisement, because it’s simple and I didn’t want to write a book, but there are a lot of ways in which the system disenfranchises poor, non white, queer, urban, and disabled voters.
German democracy isn’t perfect, but I got a special letter for service and medical industry employees about how to vote because I work at a Sonntagsbäckerei and they wanted to make sure it wouldn’t pass me by. It’s a college town with a teaching hospital, so medical and service industry employees are probably 25% of the town, so I guess it makes sense.
Then, my bakery closed early on Election Day! That’s obviously a private company, but it’s a huge contrast to the restaurant I used to work at in the US, where my old boss didn’t let me switch shifts for Election Day to coordinate with my university schedule because it was only a local election, and I was “too young to care about the school board.” Also a private company, but I complained and tried to raise a fuss, but got nowhere. If I made a credible accusation of voter suppression in Germany, every experience I’ve had here suggests they’d at least investigate it.
I work at a Sonntagsbäckerei
Thank you for your service.
I get paid 1,75x the rate and a much better percentage of people tip and/or are super nice on Sundays (a bunch of regulars also pay in bills and 1/2€ coins everywhere all week, then pay on Sundays by dumping out their change purses and leaving the rest as a tip. Unless they’ve gotten annoyed at pushback in the past, I always check that they’re sure after I count it, because it’s often a lot of money), so it’s almost worth it, lol. I used to like it a lot, because I’m accustomed to working Sundays and holidays in the US service industry and people were much more appreciative. Now that I’m teaching German M-F, I cherish having a Ruhetag a lot more.
Luckily, I’ve got the whole weekend off right now after working 9-21:30 yesterday and my husband is going shopping after his shift at a grocery store, so I’m going to relax today and draft a test for the first time tomorrow :)
It's american exceptionalism at work. They're constantly told that the USA is the best at democracy and capitalism, so when they realise it is in fact a shithole, they never let go of the idea that they're the best at it, so obviously democracy and capitalism must be bad.
Capitalism requires Infinite growth in a finite world, which means invading other countries to open up new markets, deindustrializing at home if the workers unionize (causing unemployment at home and worsening the material conditions of workers), opening factories abroad and bribing politicians there to superexploit them, etc. It's impossible for capitalism to be better. The misery we see all over the world is the natural conclusion of capitalism.