this post was submitted on 10 Oct 2024
143 points (98.6% liked)

chapotraphouse

13601 readers
913 users here now

Banned? DM Wmill to appeal.

No anti-nautilism posts. See: Eco-fascism Primer

Slop posts go in c/slop. Don't post low-hanging fruit here.

founded 4 years ago
MODERATORS
LENINSGHOSTFACEKILLA@hexbear.net
MiraculousMM@hexbear.net
Nakoichi@hexbear.net
corgiwithalaptop@hexbear.net
PorkrollPosadist@hexbear.net
ZoomeristLeninist@hexbear.net
EmmaGoldman@hexbear.net
sweet_pecan@hexbear.net
a_little_red_rat@hexbear.net
khizuo@hexbear.net
PaX@hexbear.net
143
Democracy is when only 14% of voters get to decide an entire election and the other 86% are functionally meaningless (hexbear.net)
submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by Guamer@hexbear.net to c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net
45 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

This is based on 43 states being considered "non-negotiable" and "set in stone" while only 7 are considered "swing" states

Also consider I specified "voters", who are at best only 2/3 of the total population, which leaves out about 100 million extra people

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[โ€“] zyratoxx@lemm.ee 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

That ๐Ÿฆ… moment when you are competing with Malta and Israel on the "democracy index" (Malta 28th, US 29th, Israel 30th) and they call you a "flawed democracy"

Some fun facts:

  • On the points "functioning of government" and "political culture" the US is competing with Hungary

  • The US has a worse score in "electoral process and pluralism" than for example Poland, Malaysia, Panama and Brazil

  • Besides Hungary, Eritrea and Uganda have a better score in "political culture" than the US

But ngl, people who think that the US is a perfect example of a democracy probably also think that the US is a keeper of peace for striking civilian targets in Iraq.