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Chad McCullough
cmccullough@fosstodon.org
We now have an actual convicted criminal that will be running this country. Way to go, everyone! USA! USA! USA!
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Jarkko Sakkinen
jarkko
@cmccullough Especially since you can get your voting right removed based on conviction at least in some states (I think that convicted criminals should have right to vote even when doing jail time).
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Chad McCullough
cmccullough@fosstodon.org@arrrg Exactly! The US hasn’t been a democracy for a long time. If ever, actually.
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Jarkko Sakkinen
jarkko
@cmccullough As an outsider, I'd see the jail system in US the top priority thing to sort out. If jail inmates could vote, I don't think it would last...
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Jarkko Sakkinen
jarkko
@cmccullough @arrrg Personally I do see US as a democracy but definitely some things could be fixed up :-) I think like maybe few decades ago post second world war maybe US was actually a dream society to pursue your own dream...
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Charlie the Anti-Fascist Dog
arrrg@kolektiva.social@jarkko @cmccullough i think there are many undemocratic systems in our "democracy." on a scale of democracies, we're backsliding away from democracy and have been since at least the 1970s.
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@arrrg @cmccullough I agree... But I'm trying to bring the viewpoint that as long as you can say that out loud what you just said, there's hope, right? :-)
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Charlie the Anti-Fascist Dog
arrrg@kolektiva.social@jarkko @cmccullough ah yes, hope. it's one hell of a drug.
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Jarkko Sakkinen
jarkko
@arrrg @cmccullough yeah well... the obvious alternative is to jump off the cliff, so compared to that i pick hope as my poison ;-) besides i do have my inner survivalist and secretly dream of living in a fallout universe, if things come down to that...
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Charlie the Anti-Fascist Dog
arrrg@kolektiva.social@jarkko you don't have to jump off a bridge, you can just live in despair. lol.
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