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> Sad to see the USA transition to a banana republic. I'm not sure banana republic is the best description of what is happening, the definition of the term onl

> Sad to see the USA transition to a banana republic. I'm not sure banana republic is the best description of what is happening, the definition of the term only cover part of where things are heading. A comparison with NK seems more complete, especially given the current twits at the top, so I've taken to referring to the US as DPR-US.

tialaramex 1y ago
An insistence - in spite of the reality - that you're a democracy seems likely prophetic. Right now though I think you can say the US is just back-sliding. Trump threatened to arrest Mamdani for I guess being very popular or something but he doesn't seem to have even attempted to actually do that. Once it's actually gone, Mamdani just gets imprisoned or executed so that Trump's preferred candidate "wins" regardless. The technology of democracy is still there, but the actual principles it supports are gone.
- FireBeyond 1y ago
  > An insistence - in spite of the reality - that you're a democracy seems likely prophetic. Lord of War: > Yuri Orlov: [Narrating] Every faction in Africa calls themselves by these noble names - Liberation this, Patriotic that, the Democratic Republic of something-or-other... I guess they can't own up to what they usually are: the Federation of Worse Oppressors than the Last Bunch of Oppressors. Often, the most barbaric atrocities occur when both combatants proclaim themselves Freedom Fighters.