jamirepoix @nimrodtzarking.bsky.social

I do not buy this idea that privileging the political preferences of the imperial core's preferred citizenry is meaningfully democratic in an international context

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ManhattanJuryAppreciator @ratelimitexceeder.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 27, 2024 at 17:49 UTC

This may shock you but Donald Trump and Joe Biden do not have identical foreign policies. Neither did George Bush and Al Gore. You may not think they mean much but they in fact do. In the end the difference between those policies computes thousands of people living or dead every 4 years.

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jamirepoix @nimrodtzarking.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 27, 2024 at 17:44 UTC

And in general, "accept that you have no choice but to submit to evil" is not a democratic message

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Dusty Poncho @dustyponcho.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 27, 2024 at 17:46 UTC

You don't care about democracy.

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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 27, 2024 at 17:58 UTC

Ok so how many votes do the people outside “the imperial core” have to influence who leads that “imperial core”? Maybe you think the whole world ought to be able to vote democratically to choose the president, but they don’t. So what then?

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