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Screamapillar said:
*All* democracies are flawed. We don't need a hyperbolic, sensationalist headline to tell us that. We're not legally nor technically any less of a "democracy" than we were on January 19th.

Should also note that the US is a Constitutional Republic, not a democracy. In fact, the Founders detested the very idea of a true democracy. A democracy means mob rule, that the 51% can tell the other 49% what to do. Our system actually serves to protect the 49%.

Don't bother...

Some people like that the US Supreme Court goes and decides things to all states instead of letting each look out for its best interest.



duduspace11 "Well, since we are estimating costs, Pokemon Red/Blue did cost Nintendo about $50m to make back in 1996"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=8808363

Mr Puggsly: "Hehe, I said good profit. You said big profit. Frankly, not losing money is what I meant by good. Don't get hung up on semantics"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=9008994

Azzanation: "PS5 wouldn't sold out at launch without scalpers."

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Screamapillar said:
1. *All* democracies are flawed. We don't need a hyperbolic, sensationalist headline to tell us that. We're not legally nor technically any less of a "democracy" than we were on January 19th.

2. Should also note that the US is a Constitutional Republic, not a democracy. In fact, the Founders detested the very idea of a true democracy. A democracy means mob rule, that the 51% can tell the other 49% what to do. Our system actually serves to protect the 49%.

1. That's a dumb statement, because it essentially implies that trying to measure the degree of democracy is useless. The article also says Trump is just a symptom of the state of democracy in the US and not the problem itself.

2. Mob rule is a real problem only if a single party can get the majority of seats, which is inevitable in a two-party system. Here in Finland we currently have eight different parties in the parliament, and we don't have mob rule. It's not without its problems either, but it's definitely not mob rule.



CaptainExplosion said:
Turkish said:

Dayyum, slowly sliding into a dictatorship?

https://www.thenation.com/article/the-economist-just-downgraded-the-us-from-a-full-democracy-to-a-flawed-democracy/

Surprised it isn't already being classified as a dictatorship. It's already got the loud-mouthed sociopath who gets away with sexual assault, builds useless walls, demonizes specific groups of people, sleeps with an ugly gold digger, and wants to nuke everyone else.

Thanks for nothing America, you elected the bringer of the apocalypse.

That's a lot of hyperbole, but I find it funny that if can almost apply to Hillary. The one who defended Bill who actually truly committed sexual assault and adultery, who referred to African American youth gangs as ''super-predators'' and a quarter of the US population as ''deplorables'', and was issuing threats left and right to Russia, aka the country with the most nuclear weapons.

Also LOL at the apocalypse line. So many people need to take a chill pill. He's been in office like 6 days.  Calling this a dictatorship undermines actual dictatorships in the world. Nice clickbait for their ad revenue though. Lots of anti-Trumpers gonna click on that to validate their own biases.



It's doesn't matter what the US is technically called, fact is it is still flawed. Our founding fathers wanted qualified people to be in power. And yet, how is it we often see the opposite? Man, I want some PhD, university, inventor, philosopher, pimp, scholar smarty-pants to run our government, just like our founding fathers.



The United States was not a democracy to begin with anyways so no worries, we can probably live without elected officials ...

The only reason to call a democracy "flawed" is when all votes cast by every citizen are not equal when it's pretty much the case almost everywhere else or whenever the counting process is not impartial ...

That rules out parliamentary systems altogether since it is usually the lower house and not the citizens that elect the executive branch. Then you have freakish cases of presidential systems like the United States that have anti-democratic values already built in to the constitution. We also have systems where there is both a president and a prime minister which still isn't purely democratic. No points are given to monarchies or one party states ...

I don't quite understand why The Economist went on to downgrade the rating when the US still hasn't passed any laws during that time that would limit voting rights ...



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Well, I guess it's a good thing America is a Democratic Republic. Still, it's funny to see the media has learned absolutely nothing from this election. Same old nonsense. Handle Democrats with feather gloves, even if what they do is just as bad, if not worse than the guy before them. Then, the second a Republican gets in, bash him on any and all things, whether it is warranted or not.



We were never a full democracy lol.



thismeintiel said:
Well, I guess it's a good thing America is a Democratic Republic. Still, it's funny to see the media has learned absolutely nothing from this election. Same old nonsense. Handle Democrats with feather gloves, even if what they do is just as bad, if not worse than the guy before them. Then, the second a Republican gets in, bash him on any and all things, whether it is warranted or not.

Yep... just like with Bolsonaro in Brazil...

Trump and Bolsonaro already say their fair share of silly things and unappropriated things without the media needing to invent 10x more to paint them worse. But that won't stop the media from overblowing and misrepresenting anything any of them do and turning to the other side when it's their friends doing it.



duduspace11 "Well, since we are estimating costs, Pokemon Red/Blue did cost Nintendo about $50m to make back in 1996"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=8808363

Mr Puggsly: "Hehe, I said good profit. You said big profit. Frankly, not losing money is what I meant by good. Don't get hung up on semantics"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=9008994

Azzanation: "PS5 wouldn't sold out at launch without scalpers."

CaptainExplosion said:
Turkish said:

Dayyum, slowly sliding into a dictatorship?

https://www.thenation.com/article/the-economist-just-downgraded-the-us-from-a-full-democracy-to-a-flawed-democracy/

Surprised it isn't already being classified as a dictatorship. It's already got the loud-mouthed sociopath who gets away with sexual assault, builds useless walls, demonizes specific groups of people, sleeps with an ugly gold digger, and wants to nuke everyone else.

Thanks for nothing America, you elected the bringer of the apocalypse.

This is such a typical anti-Trump post. No substance to it. Will you be setting Trump supporters on fire next?



Screamapillar said:
*All* democracies are flawed. We don't need a hyperbolic, sensationalist headline to tell us that. We're not legally nor technically any less of a "democracy" than we were on January 19th.

Should also note that the US is a Constitutional Republic, not a democracy. In fact, the Founders detested the very idea of a true democracy. A democracy means mob rule, that the 51% can tell the other 49% what to do. Our system actually serves to protect the 49%.

we'll see in the next 4-8 years how much the 54% (of actual voters) that didn't vote Trump are actually protected from the despotism of the 46%