• tal@kbin.social
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      You are talking to someone who has Stalin’s portrait as his avatar. You might not want to be investing the time into talking to him.

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      It’s getting there though due to what Trump did. Hopefully people have the smarts to vote in the next election.

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      Highest prison population w/ privately owned prisons, besides the elite class of your country controls what happens in your country (media included), you have no say in it.

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          So you admit the US has the same form of governance that Russia has? Also you could argue that all parliamentary ‘democracies’ are oligarchies or as Marx said ‘dictatorship of the bourgeoisie’

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        besides the elite class of your country controls what happens in your country (media included), you have no say in it.

        Is there any state, current or historical, that was not a dictatorship according to this metric?

        Edit: ignore the question, I noticed the Stalin profile pic

      • NιƙƙιDιɱҽʂ@lemmy.world
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        The dollar rules in the US. That is 100% true and is definitely not a good system. However, that doesn’t make it a dictatorship unless you consider money to be their dictator.

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          Money cannot be a a dictator, it’s just pieces of paper with value, however the people who hoard it in massive amounts and use it to exert influence on the system, resulting in laws that favor them and their companies, are.