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Thank you Tim Apple, who by the way is looking a little pudgy (sopuli.xyz)
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Just kinda scratching my head that one of the richest CEOs in the world went to the White House yesterday to deliver the president a literal piece of gold in exchange for an exemption to the president's tariffs and did it on live TV.
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[–] 26 points 1 year ago (5 children)

If Trump would decide Apple "has to go", the US can stop pretending that they live in a democracy.

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago* (4 children)

    The US has pretty much never been a real democracy (other than in a roman sense, as in "power belongs to rich men").

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (3 children)

    In the Roman sense, it was never a democracy, in the sense that we vote for representatives, who then in turn vote on stuff for us. Er, I mean for the corporations. So you can see why this system is so prone to abuse.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Every Western democracy votes for representatives, direct democracy isn't really a thing (except for partially in Switzerland). But many countries actually manages to represent the voters with their representatives, the US system definitely doesn't.

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