Democracy died in plain sight with the lights on.

  • Buffalox@lemmy.world
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    7 hours ago

    Jeff Bezos doesn’t want the Ukrainian angle to the war!
    This reeks of helping the Trump White House with their anti Ukraine policies.

    Fuck USA for not standing with democracy!
    And Fuck USA for not standing with their closest traditional allies!
    USA alone it is, at least for my part it is.

    • Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world
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      If it makes you feel any better, the US hasn’t been a democracy for most of it’s history. Women didn’t officially have the right to a bank account or line of credit without a male co-signer until 1974, and even after that, there were many cases of banks refusing to do so. That’s half the population of the country denied financial agency. I have no doubt that it affected the ability to vote independently.

      Granted that most other countries weren’t any better during the same time period. My point is that the US was never the champion of democracy. It might have at best just been part of the leading edge at one point.