• YappyMonotheist@lemmy.world
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    12 hours ago

    But people are sheep and easily convinced to move against their own interests, which is where America comes along with its “democracy”, which just means handpicking their Western aligned puppet and pushing him as much as possible, eventually putting him in power because the consent has been manufactured and him or her being elected seems plausible. Also, you’ll either be or have a leader regardless, I don’t see it as being “someone’s bitch”, that’s a very juvenile way to see things, lol. I’m God’s slave, that’s all.

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      11 hours ago

      Yeah maybe i was at bit blunt with that, but you get the point.

      We can agree the US is not on good standing anymore and the biparty system is like choosing between douche and turd, but there’s nothing manufactured on democratically elected officials. The people get what it wants.

      In autocracy you are also a slave to your dictator and what If he decides that tomorrow you’re all wiccans? There goes your religion.

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        11 hours ago

        In theory the West is full of democracies and I don’t see a lot of freedom, only when freedom means walking the party line. People get shot in the face by a weird secret police group in America and nothing happens besides the government praising the murderer, the dude has a gofundme! In the UK grandmas against genocide get arrested for protesting, I’m not kidding. Idk man. And nobody can decide you’re something the next day, that’s not how belief works, it just means now you gotta pretend or die. 🤷😔

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          9 hours ago

          Yeah that is because US is turning into an autocracy where President is actively against some of his people. The way he uses government forces is very reminiscent of Russia, Belarus, Iran, China. UK also has very authoritan movement labeling grandmas terrorist, restricting Internet content, hopefully they come to their senses. That kind of leaves Europe which of course also has it’s issues, but at least the free and democratic elections being the main point.

          Yeah pretending or dying doesn’t sound so good when you could just live and let live.