• ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org
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    17 hours ago

    A democracy officially becomes a dictatorship when the executive starts disobeying the legislative branch.

    The US is on the knife’s edge, and starting to fall on the wrong side of history.

    And the price of eggs still hasn’t come down…

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      13 hours ago

      But wait, rednecks can beat brown people without repercussions right?

      Becauae honestly, that’s all that matters in the end.

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        I didn’t say America was a real democracy. Everybody knows it’s a plutocratic, gerontocratic, racist former slavers’ republic that pretends to be a democracy - and everybody else around the world has been following suit for decades out of convenience.

        What I said was that it will officially cease to be a democracy the minute Cheeto and his henchmen flat out refuse to obey the judges. Because lawlessness is the most basic, most easily recognizable, and most consensually recognized sign of a dictatorship.