Literally voting for your reps is not what the government of Russia is, though... So, yes, representative democracies are sub-optimal, but they are better than a straight up oligarchy, which means "People with money and power have all the say".
ubergeek
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There's always profit to be extracted, especially from slaves.
Right, the fascist capitalists.
An oligarchy is not a democracy... Not even a "liberal western democracy", aka "Constitutional Democratic Republic"...
Now, if you wanna get all pedantic and all, we certainly can.
Shit, they can do a lemmy or kbin instance, it would fit their format anyways. Post link from their domain, and it gets shared across the network.
News outlets should be spinning up their own federated social media instances, so that THEY control their own platform, akin to a website, or email addresses.
That solves all of their issues with it.
Dunno about liberals, but I don't like hanging out at nazi bars.
You misspelled "oligarchy" there.
Nobody that matters for the sake of this discussion.
Never said kill all the MAGATts. I said they don't count in the "outrage" performance.
Musk literally told everyone he was bringing back all the fash assholes that were banned, and to do everything to amplify their voices.
Did nobody believe him when he literally told everyone it was the plan?
For all the failures of the US, or other liberal democracies... Yes, they can vote fascism right into power, and we have, in the US, and in Germany in the 1930's too.
However, let's not pretend this is exclusive to liberal democracies... Lest we forget how quickly the oligarchs captured the socialist movement in Russia in the 1910's. Not even two years post-revolution, the Soviets were also murdering the working class for high crimes such as "Doing a labor strike" or "Daring to use a system other than Leninism"...