• givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    we do have some democratic processes at play.

    Russia just held an election…

    They have some democratic processes…

    Do you call them a democracy too?

    Or is your line for what’s a democracy whatever America is currently doing?

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      5 months ago

      Do you live to argue? Did you even read what I wrote, or do you only cherry pick? You’re resorting to whataboutism. And for the record no, because Russia is a full-blown oligarchy that holds farce “presidential” elections. The fact Trump, the leader at the time, lost shows we’re doing better than Russia is.

      We both support progressive candidates and ideologies. I hate Biden, but I live in a state where I’ll have to vote for him. But since you don’t want to have an actual conversation, we’re done here. Talk like this is why Republicans are doing so well despite over half of the US hating their guts.

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        5 months ago

        Did you even read what I wrote,

        I stop when I find something that’s clearly wrong and needs corrected, same with everyone else.

        If you say 20 wrong things in each comment, I’m not going to take an hour addressing them all in one comment.

        You’re resorting to whataboutism.

        No, an example of whataboutism is when people criticize Biden, someone says “but what about trump? He’s worse.”