Randahl FinkDec 29

Picture 1: Zelenskyy arrives in Washington. No American reception, no red carpet, Trump is not present.

Picture 2: If only he had been a Russian dictator, Trump would have been standing on the red carpet, waiting for him, like when Putin came to Alaska.

The American people deserve a western leader.

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@randahl "The American people deserve a western leader." Do they? Seems like democracy disagree with you, and Americans got exactly who they deserve.
Show threadLeelooDec 29

@embedding_shapes @randahl
"Democracy".

A two party system doesn't have much in common with a democracy. A two party system with two far right parties, even less.

And a two party system where one party insists on losing is no democracy at all.

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@leeloo @randahl surprisingly, there is more ways of doing "democracy" than just one or two different ones, and they're all as "much democracy" as the other.
Show threadLeelooDec 29

@embedding_shapes @randahl
They are not.

There is a scale all the way from a single candidate (e.g. North Korea) to enough options that every voter can find someone to vote for. And on that scale, two far right parties, one of which insists on losing is closer to a single candidate than to a free choice.

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@leeloo @randahl

> There is a scale all the way from a single candidate

I was talking about democracy, you're clearly talking about something else if there is only a single candidate.

Dec 30 at 5:37pmWeb
Show threadLeelooDec 30
@embedding_shapes
You were the one claiming that every way of doing "democracy" is equally valid.
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@leeloo Indeed, are you implying there is a contradiction here somewhere?
Show threadLeelooDec 31
@embedding_shapes
I'm trying to tell you which argument was your own, but it's clearly easier to block you.