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      That’s the part that still amazes me, a decade after he was first elected. If you asked someone 15 years ago “Who in popular culture should not be in charge of the most powerful country in the western world?” the answer would have had a high probability of being this piece of shit. What is inherently wrong with a culture that elects this fucking trainwreck TWICE?

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        54% of American adults can’t read at a grade 6 level.

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        Honest stupidity bordering on developmental issues plus a complete lack of morals and fixed ideology which means anything goes as long as it seems popular (sheep stay with the herd).

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    Reminds me of Stellaris. Fucking vassal states. What genius left the ‘can declare war’ setting on ?

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      Can Determined Exterminators become vassals? I thought they didn’t do stuff like diplomacy with anything but their own kind?

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      Worse, some dumbass set the “Join their wars” to “All” instead of “None”

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    If you voted Democrat or Republican you 100% voted for this.

    You’ve sat through an entire generation now of presidents just deciding to involve us in wars, and in fact, several wars at once.

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          You’re pointing out a few flawed Democrat officials, not what the majority of voters believe. The Overton window is shifted too far right for us to have a better option.

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        The irony of your reply is that the only modern president to purposely disengage us from Bush and Obama’s entrenched wars was Donald, most notably in Syria and Afghanistan. Obama even started calling US soldiers ‘advisors’ so he could keep tens of thousands deployed in Iraq and still pretend the war was over.

        But you’re just going to ignore that and pretend that, sure, Democrats are the rational ones when it comes to US wars.

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          I’m apt to generally not trust the party that spews disinformation, flawed economic policy, erosion of civil rights, and anti science pro religion. I’m not apt to trust the party or candidate that lies intentionally far more often and used voter purging to cheat in the 2024 election, the one with a playbook straight from 1930s Germany.

          But sure, pretend that Republicans are generally better because of a few, hyper specific, cherry picked ideas relating only to US foreign military policy. For a limited time span. By your logic all non NATO members should be annexed by Israel and Russia tomorrow to avoid any further hassle.

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    Representative democracy isn’t about voting “for this shit”, it is about electing a king who then do whatever he pleases. And it isn’t the USA problem, it is the “representative democracy” problem. It is just happen that you have a remarkably stupid king at the moment.

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      Don’t confuse your rotten kleptocracy with how representative democracy works in civilised countries.

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      Not all representative democracies have a single elected individual with supreme power. The US isn’t meant to either.

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            But they all are. That is the very essence of the “representative” democracy. You’re totally correct saying about “single elected individual” but having 200 “single elected individuals” doesn’t change much – they still do whatever they want. Your job is limited to throwing a bulletin in the vote box. After that, you are completely out of control, and all you can do is to wait until the next elections or make a revolution.

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              That is blatantly false. You have just gotten used to the corruption in your shithole country.

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              You seem to post a lot of incorrect information.

              In the US system of government, the President’s power is supposed to be checked by Congress and the Supreme Court. In other words, you’re not giving supreme executive power to just one person. Unfortunately since Republicans practically always do what Trump wants, we’ve lost that check.

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                1 person or 200 persons – it doesn’t matter much. It wasn’t the point. The point is that those persons are completely safe to ignore the citizens.