• Kyrgizion@lemmy.world
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        35 minutes ago

        It’s more like all pretense is gone now. Before, there was this veneer of legitimacy. Now, it’s straight up fascism. It’s a matter of image projection.

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        43 minutes ago

        More like the oligarchy now have 99% of the power rather than 98%.

        The issue is that we believe we have a free democracy when the only power we have is to put an X in a box every few years. The system isn’t broken, it’s working as it’s designed to.