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America is a dictatorship of Capital, not a democracy. These actions are 100% in line with the interests of capital.
this post was submitted on 07 Apr 2026
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It is a capitalist democracy where both parties are controlled by the same monied class
I'm actively trying not to commit suicide most days.
Democracy. If we had democracy Sanders would have won in 2016.
God I’m so tired. Yes. Me. A disabled queer who lives 3000 miles away from this turd, is the problem. I am 100% complicit because I’m not, what, physically going there and pulling him out by his ear? Okay then.
Do you lecture people about how your country is a democracy and whatever enemy country is a dictatorship?
In addition to those other things I mentioned I am also an anarchist. So no. Not generally.
Nah, you know it's not you, just like I know it's not me. Whoever posted this is probably angry and venting, or is regurgitating rhetoric they heard/read, or they feel powerless so they point fingers broadly. Also possible they're just trying to stir shit up, make people angry, or (worse) jack off their ego with a bunch of virtue signaling dog shit takes.
Keep being you and do what you can to try and instill some change, without letting clowns make you feel like you are part of the problem. It's what a lot of us are doing and that DOES make us responsible Americans; just not responsible for Diaper Dipshit and his big orange asshole. I don't know you, but love you, you beautiful bitch. <3
Fortunately for me, an American citizen, I fully understand that my democratically "elected" leaders absolutely have fuck-all to do with what I personally want, or even what the vast majority of people actually want. Of course this means my life is way worse then it could be, but morally I'm in the clear.
People went to storm area 51 for the bit but when the president is one step away from genocide, nope nothing.
There really needs to be a national march on the capital for anyone willing and able. Not just some passive no kings too, there needs to be some serious pressure and disruption. Literally anyone who can take a couple days off work and travel to DC. No kings was a good first step, but it absolutely needs to be ramped up, and fast.
It would be a good start, but what's really needed is mass unionization and mutual aid that could be used to organize stuff like general strikes. Work stoppage is the only thing these ghouls understand cause it hits them in the wallet.
Here’s a chart of how likely a policy is to become enacted (Y axis), based on public support of the policy (X axis):
I'm very confused by the purple line
The purple line is the bottom 90% of the population by income.
So basically, public opinion does not impact policy in any statistically significant way.
I gathered as much, it just seems weird that its pinned at what appears at a glance like 35%? Is that just what percentage of policies in general get enacted?
Yeah, inertia is baked into the legislative process here. It’s silly.
As a person living in the USA, this. People dont seem to realize that technically, the people are in charge.
They don't "realize* it because it's a bullshit lie made up to keep you in line.
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In what world is the United States a democracy?
Nothing the people actually want ever happens.
If it did, they wouldn’t all end up bankrupt at the end of their lives.
That's not true. Both parties promise unlimited imperialism and people vote for it.
If both parties promise the same thing, then it isn't really a democracy, it's a single party dictatorship with multiple personality disorder.
The US is obviously a dictatorship of capital, but a lot of people continue calling it a democracy. And these people then have to be made to realize they make themselves directly complicit in the crimes the state commits.
@yogthos@lemmy.ml @obvs@lemmy.world I guess it might trigger some in the US to have compassion for the people of e.g. Russia when they want to hold the entirety of the people of Russia responsible for the Ukraine ordeal. Either way, this is all very grim.
If the US commits a nuclear genocide against Iran and the rest of the world just looks on, then we're going to be living in a horrific world indeed.
A lot of people in the US are complicit.
That is also true, just not on account of the the US being democratic.
I was simply agreeing with parent's assessment.
But the US is the only Democracy in the Americas!
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If THIS isn't Worthy of the Nobel Peace Prize NOTHING is!
*FIFA
Sadly the reality is that America isn't a democracy. It's struggling as a business representative government but the courts say money is equal to speech so the rich are running over everything and trying to make the People pay for those decisions.
Hopefully the People get a say in the government soon!
America isn’t a democracy
Hopefully the People get a say in the government soon
If it's not a democracy, and you don't plan on overthrowing D.C, how is that supposed to happen?
Pardon the snark but it kind of sounds like you want your cake and eat it too; either it is a democracy, and the people will get a say, and thus USians are collectively responsible for their government action, or it's not a democracy and the people won't have a say in the government
from my (perhaps limited) perspective, it does seem that the people are indeed getting a say, and a lot of people are very happy with the current US admin (and a lot also are not, but not enough to have any decent policy, and keep in mind that I'm not singling out Trump from his predecessors who also were warmongers)
Trump worries about the crowd when he is doing something unpopular but that popularity doesn't control his actions directly. The end result is protesting his actions is the most effective way to stop things like nuking Iran.
The way this entire thing works in America is that the House of Representatives gets to speak for you. You don't tell them what to say and often money will corrupt them quickly beyond any interest in what they should be doing - but - for a few years the new ones try to listen to the public.
On the other end is Trump and the Republicans who control the House and Senate. Without the House the heinous acts and laws don't pass. He needs the House to stay in control.
We, The People, don't get to say "stop the war" but we do get to stop the economy and that will stop the House, which will stop the war.
We are doing our best to be the peace we want to see in the world and it starts by not being violent. It will take time, like the Republicans took 20 years to be able to be so openly fascist, so clearly it will take time to undo the damage.
Worst case we just have to wait for the boomer congress/senators to retire or die off.
Putting an age / term limit on congress members would accelerate the process towards electing younger, uncorrupted, technologically competent individuals.
No, the worst case is the boomers are replaced by young Republicans that are all Nick Fuentes Nazis.
2050 USA: roving cannibal rep mobs rampage through the cities
Dem senator: "I miss president Fuentes, back then we were eating human meat with a fork and knife. Anyway, we need strong Republican party" chomps on human rib