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[–] 15 points 2 months ago (6 children)

Reading about the USA really is incredibly depressing. I just look at news articles like this, and wonder how things ever got so bad.

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  • [–] 14 points 2 months ago (4 children)

    Our democracy got hacked. You just can't have billionaires and democracy long term

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    It's not hacked. Our government is working exactly as intended: for the benefit of the owning class and reinforcement of their hierarchical control over society.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 months ago

    Both things can be true. But it was definitely hacked

    And by that I mean the democracy part has been manipulated over a long period so a minority has more power than the majority. That's why religious extremists are able to achieve things like this - they're a small group of the population, but the fascist technocrats behind it all like to use their heraldry

    But without voter suppression, breaking norms, and stacking the courts, this never would have flown

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    These problems have been brewing since before we were a country. Turns out you can't make a system that panders to racist slavers without substantial consequences.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago

    The cracks were always there, but it's like global warming. Decades and decades of people ringing the alarm bell and warning signs before things come to the natural conclusion

    We're getting real close to the find out part of both issues

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