First RCS now this, today has been wild

  • Norgur
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    1451 year ago

    Hey, 'Muricans, how come we need to pressure every company into compliance for you?

        • R0cket_M00se
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          171 year ago

          An electoral democracy, we choose those that make the laws. Due to the 2 party system we don’t have many options for when they fail to do what they claim they will.

        • @[email protected]
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          1 year ago

          No, we’re a republic.

          A true democracy would empower each of us to do as you say, but that’s not what’s here.

          Our republic is quite corrupt due to greed and power, as well… Not as corrupt as many countries out there, mind you, but it’s alot worse than it should be.

          We’re starting to resemble a corporatocracy in many ways these days as a result of all this.

          • @[email protected]
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            11 year ago

            ‘Republic’ is about whether or not you have kings. Democracy is as opposed to autocracy, with a few other *cracys between those poles.

            America is a democratic republic; the United Kingdom is a democratic monarchy. The US has a broken democratic system that does a really bad job of electing the most preferred candidate. It’s almost cheeky to call America democratic.

    • prole
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      121 year ago

      Sorry, our country is currently on fire 😕

      • Norgur
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        1 year ago

        Which war? Help me out here. Vietnam? Iraq? Korea? I’m lost here … Oh wait…

    • @[email protected]
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      1 year ago

      Hey, 'Peans, how come you think a country larger than your pseudo continent is a homogenous hivemind?

      E: what Ive learned from this comment is that apparently, all europeans share 1 single trait, which is just utterly horrid reading comprehension

      • no banana
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        421 year ago

        Because Europe is so fucking homogenous that we stared 2 world wars just because we agree so much

        • Norgur
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          111 year ago

          We agreed so much in the past that the 30 years war could never have happened in Euro… Oh.

          • no banana
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            71 year ago

            They agree with eachother so much in eastern Europe that there are no wars and everyone just hugs. Oh wait.

        • @[email protected]
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          -21 year ago

          If you think saying “that nation isnt homogenous” means “all other nations are homogenous” you probably shouldnt weigh in on adult convos

      • Norgur
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        161 year ago

        Erm… Larger by land mass? Yes. Larger by GDP? No. Larger by number of inhabitants? No. Larger by amount of vastly different cultures that somehow get stuff like this done whole very decidedly not being a hive mind? Also no.