naturalgasbadPutin claims landslide in Russian election and scorns US democracy
The only difference between the Russian and US system is that instead of having one big party whose interests are entirely separated from the public and which completely crushes any opposition parties, we have two big parties whose interests are entirely separated from the public and which completely crush all opposition parties.
A sham democracy if there ever was one, but that’s because the purpose of indirect democracy is less to decide on policy and more to select a strongman leader that’s most appealing.
_haha_oh_wow_The US needs ranked choice voting badly, but to say the only difference between the US and Russia is the two party system is just straight up incorrect.
Opposition leaders and dissidents do not get regularly assassinated by the government in the US for starters.
Because there’s no need to do it
The US has done some fucked up shit, no doubt, but that is about messing with foreign countries and has nothing to do with what we’re talking about here: The US internally disappearing and/or killing anyone who speaks out against it.
The son of someone involved in a literal fascist overthrow plot in the 30s became the head of the CIA which takes over governments then the President. His son then stole an election and allowed 9/11 to happen
Nice non-sequitur but that doesn’t excuse anyone of anything.
You live in a fascist country that the CIA literally overthrew the government of then instituted a crisis which ushered in a police state. Lots of people disappear and you don’t know because they run your media. Consider yourself lucky that you are white passing enough or have enough money that you are protected from this and get to live in a bubble.
I refer you to my previous comment.
Opposition leaders and dissidents do not get regularly assassinated by the government in the US for starters.
The US internally disappearing and/or killing anyone who speaks out against it.
Yes they do. What do you think happened to Martin Luther King Jr, Malcom X or Fred Hampton? What do you think happened or all the budding leaders you never hear about. You have a child’s understanding of the world you live in.
Because you have no historical or material context at all this needs to be explained to you. You live in a totalitarian fascist police state and are not informed of the death that occurs around you.
Ok, so how does any of that excuse anything anyone else does?
It fucking doesn’t!
This is the actual non sequitur. Your original comment is this:
The US needs ranked choice voting badly, but to say the only difference between the US and Russia is the two party system is just straight up incorrect. Opposition leaders and dissidents do not get regularly assassinated by the government in the US for starters.
This is factually incorrect in regards to the US. Your government regularly does murder dissidents. Nowhere in this chain are we excusing Russia, we are explaining to you that the US and Russia are not different. You are both corrupt, capitalist, fascist military-industrial empires that must be destroyed and have no redeeming value. Your point here is a complete non sequitur.
k, you just give Putin a free pass then buddy because if one nation does terrible shit that magically makes it all ok for everyone else. Totally reasonable.
Nobody is giving anyone a free pass. I’m just speaking reality. Ukraine and the EU are losing and the Ukranian kids, which I was just like as a kid, are going to suffer. Your plan on loading them up with weapons isn’t going to work. There is no war in self defense. They lost when everyone started fighting with guns.
Not sure where you got that anyone is getting a pass from, your ass probably because you aren’t reading or understanding a god damn thing.
If that’s something that regularly happens in the US, do you have any examples from the last decade, instead of three examples from 55-60 years ago?
It does regularly happen in the US and we are not informed. There is no mechanism for informing you or reporting on information from the interior of the US. There is a complete lockdown on information in your country. There are no more reputable journalists, no more reputable local news papers, no reputable national newspapers. 9/11 was your Reichstag fire and you don’t even realize. Literally last week a military defense contractor whistleblower was killed. They’re smart enough to kill these people early by police violence or pushing them into prison for made up non violent crimes before people are a problem.
Interesting also that you picked out the point that the obvious assassinations happened 55 years ago but said nothing about the fact that you extremely recently electrified the balls of people which is internationally recognized as torture in a country you made up the reason for invading. People defending their homes just like the Ukranians were tied up in American black sites while they electrified their testicles and took pictures of it smiling. You think these people aren’t willing to kill threats?