See, this is why you don’t get your politics from a dictionary.

a: government by the people especially : rule of the majority

If a was true, where is your universal healthcare?

I could ask a book’s worth of, “If a was true, (insert blatantly obvious contradiction here)” questions that this worse-than-useless dictionary description doesn’t provide answers to.

And that’s just a… it just gets worse from there on in.

Let’s rather try this - why do you think labor unions have been historically necessary? After all… if it wasn’t for labor unions, you wouldn’t even have the week-end - or anything resembling safety regulations. Labour unions are a democratic force (in theory - and sometimes in practice) acting on an anti-democratic power structure (ie, a for-profit, privately owned corporation - in this instance)

If you lived in a democratic society, such a force wouldn’t be necessary, no?

I don’t disagree with anything you’ve typed here.

But if you call any of what you described democratic, I will say that your bar for what qualifies as democratic or not is so low you’d need a bathyscape to see it.

Direct democracy would literally be a popularity contest.

Democracy is not a popularity contest - if that’s what you’ve got, the people organizing the popularity contest have already neutralized democracy a long time ago.

The concept of democracy is compatible with any consensus-based decision-making process that happens from below - once it’s dictated from above… well, you get the picture.

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Probably not, but it would help him beat Trump.

I doubt that… Biden in up against more than just Trump. He’s basically been painted into a realpolitik corner - and, to be fair to Biden, it isn’t even really Biden’s fault.

The thing that amuses me about a ‘secret’ society like this is that they are entirely made up of people whose political positions are worn on their red hats- and their cars- and their lawns- etc.

It’s not so much secrecy as just plausible deniability - the same way we know nine out of every ten old white guys in the US political establishment are white supremacists but are given the benefit of the doubt by the media because they don’t use the n-word in public.

They vote too you know.

Yeah… with “donations.”

Has anyone thought of maybe getting Biden to open a dialogue with protestors?

And the protestors are just supposed to fall for that?

Something tells me fragging (the original kind) might have a chance of becoming de rigueur again.

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Oh look… the hasbara has shown up.

Aaaaaaand… the word “terrorist” doesn’t appear once in that article.

I guess NBC didn’t think him brown enough.

Kinda weird that Hollywood loves the same thing Hitler did, eh?

It’s almost like there’s this thing they’re trying to do… as if they are trying to convince people who look a certain way that they are, in spite of all the evidence to the contrary, what humanity really is and should be - and everything that doesn’t fit into that narrow classification should forever be seen as aberrant and abnormal.

It’s too bad we don’t have a term for that…

Gee… I wonder what could ever have tipped them off?

Perhaps it’s the fundamentally white supremacist society they exist within?

Nahhh… couldn’t possibly be that.

Is this a good time to bring up prison abolition, MTG?

Holy shit… this place is lousy with pro-genocide hasbara.

And it seems the mods are perfectly fine with that… as usual.

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So that’s what they pay the most irrelevant person in the company?

Perfectly fine and rational economic system we’ve got going here…

And he is crediting police with a record 50-year low? I don’t buy that.

Neither should you - if it’s safe for you to walk the streets the pig is the last people on the planet you should thank.