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US and Israel Only 'No' Votes as UN Members Demand End to 61-Year Cuba Embargo
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Well the US isn't a democracy so our votes don't matter.
Democracy index has it listed as a flawed democracy at 7.85. The cutoff for a hybrid regime is 6.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Economist_Democracy_Index
"land of the free"
That which is pro-capitalist is utterly anti-democratic - so I wouldn't trust anything The Economist has to say about the subject.
Please explain. Seems to me like democracy is people having a roughly equal say in what the government does. (If it's a representative democracy, then though electing officials who will do so)
I have to explain this to you? Fine.
Do tell... how democratic is the place you work?
I don't work in the government, so it isn't.
So... despite you living in a (supposedly) "democratic" society, your actual day-to-day life is governed by that which is decidedly anti-democratic, correct?
No my day to day life is literally governed by the government.
What would you call a democracy? Who should be citizens of a company? Right now, publicly owned companies do reflect the desires of their 'citizens,' the shareholders. Does that count as democratic for you?
A democratic workplace is one where all workers have a say in operations.
So that means all the employees are citizens of the company? Only current employees? What about contractors? An equal say, or proportional to their experience or skill? And does every decision need to be made in that manner?
What, did your President chosen by a kiss from a bald eagle?
Edit: guys, issa joke.
That would be more acceptable than the real way, which is simply being chosen by the American oligarchs.
That would almost certainly be a better method than superdelegates and corporations/lobbyists/PACs influencing the election. The election is a year out and we already know with certainty who our two choices will be, and at least one of them would never be an option for most people.
The electoral college elects the president. We just vote on which side gets to send it's people there. Don't know a single name of one of these voters and they can and do vote against the will of the people. It's a partial democracy at best and really needs to change to popular vote already.
It's extremely rare for that to happen and I think last time it did happen the states made it illegal right after.
Last time I checked nobody in the US got an option to vote for "let's not be an psychotic, thoroughly evil mass-murdering neocolonialist monstrosity that threatens the entire planet with nukes."
I'm so tired of seeing thread #35738272 of Lemmy not understanding how a liberal democracy works. 'WHY ARE WE NOT VOTING OUT THE OBVIOUS FASCISTS AND VOTING IN THE SOCIALIST UTOPIA RIGHT NOW, CLEARLY DEMOCRACY IS BROKEN'
It's very easy to understand (so-called) "liberal" democracy - as long as you understand that there is absolutely nothing democratic about it.
Except loads of stuff, like your ability to vote, and for that vote to contribute to deciding who leads the country.
What does the word democracy mean?
Does it perhaps mean, "rule by the people?"
Or does it perhaps mean "engage in a rigged spectacle every four years where the majority of people get to choose between two overmoneyed bureaucrats whose allegiance to the status quo has been vetted by corporate interests?"
"Liberal democracy" is no more democratic than "social darwinism" is socialist - or Darwinist.
Yeah but western elections aren't rigged are they. You get a lot of choice. The two final candidates are just one part of that in the US system. Elsewhere there is much more variety, but the people tend to vote for safe, mainstream moderate candidates (with notable far right exceptions), which is why they consistently govern Europe and North America. Sadly, the world isn't just confused populist leftists. Everyone does actually just want what they've all voted for.
Really? Is that so? It has nothing to do with the fact that it's the wealthy that prefers funding these (supposedly) "safe, mainstream moderate candidates" that won't upset the status quo that benefits said wealthy at the expense of everyone and everything else?
No, not really. Funding is no guarantee of political success, some of the most expensive campaigns in US history have been failures. People don't want the status quo upset, that's why it's the status quo. People are continually voting for it.
And what got them into the utterly privileged position of running those expensive campaigns in the first place, hmmm?
No, be honest... you don't want the status quo upset - which is why you are pretending "liberal democracy" can actually be called democratic with a straight face.
People are continuing to vote for the narrow set of political options they are allowed to vote for - that is it.
If there was any impetus for change like you want, Bernie Sanders wouldn't have been beaten in a primary. You can believe it's all rigged, but then to be honest you shouldn't be complaining on lemmy, you should be doing a left wing Jan 6. I'm not American, I have paid leave, social benefits, free healthcare, bicycle lanes, so I don't really care what your status quo is, but you guys are just amazing at voting against your own self interests.
The "marketplace of ideas" bullcrap has been thoroughly debunked, liberal.
Your suggestion is for leftists to do a white supremacist lynch mob? What else should the left do, "enlightened centrist?" A leftist "version" of the Holocaust, maybe?
I don't live in the Global North - I live in the extraction zone... you know, those places that your status quo couldn't exist without?
So I'm going to assume that the resurgence of overt fascist ideology in Europe is merely Europeans "acting in their own self-interest"? I guess it's just the same ole' Europe then, eh?
Wow you are very much detached from reality. Okie doke. Enjoy being politically ineffective I guess.
I'm not the one clinging to utterly failed, debunked and discredited fairy tales, liberal. You are.
I suspect the bald eagle would have kissed someone else.