• breen@lemmy.ca
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    11 hours ago

    Baby, you haven’t been a democracy for a while

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        Optical illusion. Plutocrats sharing power among themselves is not democracy, friend.

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        We peacefully transitioned into a technocracy with a wanna-be dictator idiot at the helm.

        As an exercise for anyone reading this who doesn’t already know: How did Hitler got into a position of power? Look that up, don’t use AI, actually check up on that yourself.

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          Just a dictionary thing, Technocracy != tech bro president:

          Government by technical specialists.

          A system of governance where people who are skilled or proficient govern in their respective areas of expertise. A type of meritocracy based on people’s ability and knowledge in a given area.

          When you call someone a technocrat, it means they’re more interested in research and quality than political debate

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          Technically the Nazis lost that election, but the Conservatives who won turned around and handed power to Hitler, all to prevent the Left from gaining power.

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            Alien school: For todays class we will begin Earth history, please open your text book titled “Earth: All to Prevent the Left From Gaining Power.” This book covers the vast majority of Earth history.

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        I would assume most monarchies transitioned just as peaceful. What does that prove?

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        The only party willing to accept defeat and not cry foul until their cult riots lost. It will never happen the other way around are you’d have be to a deeply vastly empty head to not know that.

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        Degree of democracy has more to do with the size of the ruling coalition relative to the size of the pool of the interchangeables. When power is shared within a large ruling coalition, there tends to be a louder and more influential voice by the interchangeables, leading to more democracy and better living conditions for everyone, including those in the losing coalition. Autocracies on the ruling spectrum tend to have tiny ruling coalitions.

        Source: my memory of reading The Dictator’s Handbook by Bueno de Mesquita and Smith. Highly recommended reading.

        If the ruling coalition of the US is much smaller than it appears to be, then yeah, it’s at risk of losing its foothold as a democracy.