• NιƙƙιDιɱҽʂ
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    2611 months ago

    The US has some serious issues with corruption, but it’s FAR from a dictatorship, lol.

    • tal
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      11 months ago

      You are talking to someone who has Stalin’s portrait as his avatar. You might not want to be investing the time into talking to him.

    • TwoGems
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      111 months ago

      It’s getting there though due to what Trump did. Hopefully people have the smarts to vote in the next election.

    • @Stalins_Spoon@lemmygrad.ml
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      -511 months ago

      Highest prison population w/ privately owned prisons, besides the elite class of your country controls what happens in your country (media included), you have no say in it.

        • @Stalins_Spoon@lemmygrad.ml
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          -111 months ago

          So you admit the US has the same form of governance that Russia has? Also you could argue that all parliamentary ‘democracies’ are oligarchies or as Marx said ‘dictatorship of the bourgeoisie’

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        11 months ago

        besides the elite class of your country controls what happens in your country (media included), you have no say in it.

        Is there any state, current or historical, that was not a dictatorship according to this metric?

        Edit: ignore the question, I noticed the Stalin profile pic

      • NιƙƙιDιɱҽʂ
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        211 months ago

        The dollar rules in the US. That is 100% true and is definitely not a good system. However, that doesn’t make it a dictatorship unless you consider money to be their dictator.

        • @Stalins_Spoon@lemmygrad.ml
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          011 months ago

          Money cannot be a a dictator, it’s just pieces of paper with value, however the people who hoard it in massive amounts and use it to exert influence on the system, resulting in laws that favor them and their companies, are.

            • @Stalins_Spoon@lemmygrad.ml
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              111 months ago

              It’s capitalism’s natural evolution, it happens in every capitalist country, regardless if it brands itself as social democratic, parliamentary democracy, etc.