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    It has only two political parties, and a weird system where all votes are not equal and the actual vote majority doesn’t always win.

    It has frequently had multiple people from the same families running for office, and only wealthy people have a shot. Corporations get to lobby for laws in their favour.

    It also spies on its own citizens, holds people indefinitely without trial, has a huge prison population, a militarized police with a high homicide rate, and is the only western nation with the death penalty.

    Trump and Musk are laying bare how fragile the veneer of “democracy” really is in that country.



  • JacksonLamb@lemmy.worldtoMemes@lemmy.mlAmericans and socialism
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    10 hours ago

    Interesting, thanks for the Canadian history lesson Perhaps that’s where the Americans got their weird terminology from.

    you guys need to clear that up

    Who needs to do what? I’m not sure what I said that somehow gave you the impression I was an American.

    My society pays for universal free healthcare, like everywhere in the civilized world.


  • Pretty sure no one with universal healthcare calls it “socialized medicine”. That’s just a buzzword Americans use to scare each other.

    It’s not a means of producing anything other than health. Health is seen as a human right and it makes sense even in most western capitalist countries for it to be extended to everyone.