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First, we destroy a place/city/habitat, and then after completely ruining beyond any hope of recovering, make a museum or write a posthumous article about it.
by hvmonk 11y ago
First, we destroy a place/city/habitat, and then after completely ruining beyond any hope of recovering, make a museum or write a posthumous article about it.
- x5n1 11y agoWe did not destroy anything. Our beloved leaders did. Let's keep that distinction in mind about who to blame.
- esalman 11y agoThe leaders didn't elect themselves.
- sitkack 11y agoNo it takes Goldman Sachs.
- typon 11y agoEither the majority of Americans are culpable or America is not a democracy
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- Retric 11y agoOnly the ignorant call America a democracy. Also: George W. Bush: 50,456,002 Al Gore: 50,999,897 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election,_2000 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_ele... PS: The supreme court chose 7–2 not to count 70,000 ballets in Florida when 537 votes was the margin of victory. That's all kinds of sketchy, but... America FUCK YEA!!!
- prawn 11y agoFlorida: The Dance State?
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- tomrod 11y agoAmerica is a representative republic, and one where the representatives in power have incentive to continue maintaining that power. This is to detriment of their constituents.
- rosser 11y agoYeah, I don't think it's too difficult to pick the correct answer there...
- ImprovedSilence 11y agoCorrect, the USA is a Republic.
- peteretep 11y ago"Before the invasion in March 2003, polls showed 47-60% of the US public supported an invasion"
- x5n1 11y agoManufactured Consent talks all about that. With propaganda you can get any group of people in the world to attack some other random group. Does not mean anyone actually supports it, just that they can be coerced into doing so. Polls as justification for popular mandates is itself a sham. Polls lie.
- peteretep 11y agoThis reduces to all elections being non-binding as they're subject to manufactured consent, and thus doesn't stand up.
- Retra 11y agoThat's right. "Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others.” - W. Churchill
- hackuser 11y agoMaybe, if not for various manipulations, more people would have supported the invasion.
- spriggan3 11y agoWhen your government goes to war it does it in your name. When a soldier kills somebody in that war he kills in your name. That's why it is called a representative government, the people vote for these guys, these guys represent the people. That's the foundation of a representative government. You can argue the process is corrupt, i'd argue it is because people stopped caring about the process at first place.
- Mikeb85 11y agoIsn't the US a democracy? That means the citizenry accept culpability in their leaders' actions. (Personally, I don't think the US is a democracy, and you're off the hook)
- mineshaftgap 11y agoRight, the whole Trump thing is engineered by the elite.
- tosseraccount 11y agohttp://www.tradingeconomics.com/iraq/gdp http://www.tradingeconomics.com/iraq/gdp : http://country.eiu.com/iraq http://country.eiu.com/iraq Strong economic growth since establishment of new government.
- cheez 11y agohttp://www.tradingeconomics.com/iraq/gdp-per-capita http://www.tradingeconomics.com/iraq/gdp-per-capita I wonder where that growth went?
- lingben 11y agoand by 'we' you mean the Mongols who sacked and razed this version of Baghdad to the ground in 1258, right?
- havetocharge 11y agoI would wager that there was a version of this city, more recent than 1258 that the residents were happy with.