• DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social
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        17 days ago

        I wouldn’t take it seriously, they gave me a month long instance ban for saying a federal representative democracy is by definition a type of democracy.

        “American propaganda” or something.

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                17 days ago

                Uhhh yeah. The Constitution establishes a federal democratic republic form of government. That is, we have an indivisible union of 50 sovereign States. It is a democracy because people govern themselves. It is representative because people choose elected officials by free and secret ballot.

                • queermunist she/her@lemmy.ml
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                  17 days ago

                  It’s democracy when only white men are allowed to choose representatives? What?

                  It’s settler-colonialism. Fascism. Where was the democracy for the Natives? Or the slaves? The original system has had many democratic reforms, but denying its roots as fundamentally undemocratic is historical revisionism and blinds you to the US’s flaws. You’ll never fix this country’s problems if you can’t even recognize this.

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                    17 days ago

                    Bro I’m native, I know! I think it’s a piece of shit also but it could be worse. I’m also trying to rage against the machine.