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What's a scam that's so normalized that we don't even realize it's a scam anymore? (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 year ago by mastermind@lemm.ee to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] hglman@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Big yes to the scam that is liberal democracy. One terrible use of libs calling things democracy when they aren't is blanketly condemning everyone in some place bc someone got elected: Russia and every red state in the USA. These places are full of people who do not support the government and had no real chance of electing real representation nor would those elected officals really be useful.