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[-] krolden@lemmy.ml 4 points 9 months ago

Is that why we only have a choice between two rich geriatric whitte men

[-] lud@lemm.ee -1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

You obviously have a flawed system but you still have a choice compared to those countries.

And they are not only white men.

This year one of them is orange. Earlier, one of them was a women but you didn't want to vote for her. Why I don't know.

Before that there was a black man.

[-] Alsephina@lemmy.ml 6 points 9 months ago

All of whom are genocidal zionazis who can never go against the US gov's imperialist interests.

The only US president who tried to do something half-decent, JFK, for wanting to abolish the CIA and giving an anti-imperialist speech titled “Imperialism: the Enemy of Freedom” to seemingly curtail the US’s invasions in foreign countries, made himself an enemy of both the political parties, and was thus assassinated by the CIA.

Political systems in the imperial core, specially in the US, only exist to protect capital and imperialism, while giving a thin veneer of “democracy”.

Btw, Putin has an approval rating of over 75% in Russia. Russia is much more of an actual liberal "democracy" than the US, where Trump won despite getting less votes.

[-] antbricks@lemmy.today 0 points 9 months ago

If he has such broad approval why do his political opponents keep dying? Why not have an actual election?

[-] Alsephina@lemmy.ml 3 points 9 months ago

While he does seem to genuinely care about Russia — it was under his presidency that alot of the mass capitalist privatizations after the USSR's overthrow were undone and life in Russia started to catch back up to what it was, though it remained capitalist — he's still a liberal. I imagine that's probably because of a mix of wanting to increase his chances of victory even a bit more, and because there's no genuine leftist opposition in Russia right now that would actually improve it (all his genuine oppositions have been far-right so far).

[-] krolden@lemmy.ml 4 points 9 months ago

They have freedom to healthcare and I have freedom to go into crushing debt or just rot.

[-] davel@lemmy.ml 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

You obviously have a flawed system but you still have a choice compared to those countries.

As a bourgeois democracy we’ve never really much choice electorally.

Princeton University Study: US is an oligarchy, not a democracy

Multivariate analysis indicates that economic elites and organised groups representing business interests have substantial independent impacts on US government policy, while average citizens and mass-based interest groups have little or no independent influence.


Before that there was a black man.

Michael Hudson on the 2008 Great Recession:

All of these loans were against fictitious mortgages, mortgages that pretended that there was value there, but there were mortgages mainly to Black and Hispanic borrowers by banks who cheated them, who over-evaluated the prices. The banks in general discovered a new way of making money after about 2004. They could make money by charging racial minorities much higher rates, almost double the rates that they charged white people. There were whole banks and brokers that specialized in this, and this was basically the junk mortgage group. Countrywide, Financial was the most obvious beneficiary of this.

There were a number of notorious banks that ended up being merged. Bank of America was one of the crooked banks. Citibank was one of the most crooked banks, as has been very well documented. Randal Wray at the Levy Institute and Kansas City published a big explanation of who were these $29 trillion, $27 trillion of loans for. It ended up many of these loans were rolled over and reloaned, so the net amount was not $27 trillion, but that’s how much was given to the banks with this huge jump. Instead of sending the bankers to jail, they made them billionaires. They rewarded them. That was the Obama policy, and that is what makes them one of the most viciously racist presidents in modern American history.

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