• @darthsid
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    172 days ago

    Democracy must be fragile af if this is all it takes to topple it

    • @x00z
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      51 day ago

      Using first-past-the-post and giving a president too much power is fragile, yes.

      Proportional election and a president with much less power is far safer. Some stuff takes a while to become a law, but at least it’ll be an actual agreement instead of an order.

    • @madcaesar
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      192 days ago

      Most good things are fragile. And with most things it just takes a few assholes to ruin it.

    • @lennybird
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      2 days ago

      Democracy resisted for quite some time despite glaring problems.

      See the Business Plot of 1933 that was undermined by a Medal of Honor-recipient and Major General, Smedley Butler whom they tried to recruit for the coup.

    • @[email protected]
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      32 days ago

      They have been eroding education and disenfranchising voters for decades. He loves the poorly educated, you know?