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I like world leaders who don't die during their second term.
Diane Feinstein was in the House of Lords for decades before America was even invaded. There are rumors that Nancy Pelosi was present at the murder of Julius Caesar. Chuck Schumer may have been one of the Roman soldiers who crucified Jesus. Did you know John Dingle spent three generations terrorizing Americans from the house and senate?
It's farcical to pretend to care about this in a country where the SCOTUS is made up of decrepit rejects from the middle ages, Congress is full of corpse-liches that lack even the semblance of life, and the POTUS is like 111 years old and spent half that time openly and vocally doing corruption that would have gotten him shot in China.
half that time openly and vocally doing corruption that would have gotten him shot in China
Even more depressingly, Brandon didn't personally profit off any of the bullshit he spearheaded as a senator and Obama had to pay his kid's medical bills when he was VP so he didn't have to remortgage his house.
and this is the man that would never sign a medicare for all bill if it went on his desk. i guess we're all just supposed to call our obamas when we get hit with medical bankruptcy.
I know. It's so pathetic. The man has done so much harm and enacted so much that is obviously evil and cruel and wrong, and he was too stupid to even get rich from it. I could at least respect someone who had profited from their villainy, but Biden just seems to have been an unthinking useful idiot for his puppetmasters who truly has failed his way to the top.
The same people ruling for decades is good if it happens in civilized countries but bad if it happens in uncivilized countries. :so-true:
Not president, Chancellor, which is basically prime minister. You see, having the same president for more than two terms = authoritarian = bad, but having the same prime minister for a decade or more = democracy = good.
term limits only exist in America because presidential appointments of things like federal marshalls basically allow the president to do whatever the fuck they want
FDR was elected four terms, died early in the fourth, Xi has catching up to do, technically (though his tenure overall is getting close)
or is this a joke going over my head
"Absolute power corrupts absolutely" sweaty! I read it in a book once and it sounds simple enough! And being the President for any country must mean you get to decide everything!
A democracy re-electing a popular leader who protects their interests: tyranny
A small council of unelected judicial freaks appointed for life that have absolute power with no recourse: democracy
The lib reactions to Italian fascists winning an election with a minority of votes vs Cuba voting in by a wide majority the most progressive laws on LGBT rights of any country, which happened around the same time, tell you everything you need to know about them.
I remember one "criticism" levied at China was that Xi Jinping isn't actually directly elected, therefore tyranny.
When you don't directly elect the leader but instead a series of representatives who elect the leader: :wojak-nooo:
When you don't directly elect the leader but instead a series of representatives who elect the leader, but country is majority white and there are two nominally opposed parties. :so-true:
I remember one “criticism” levied at China was that Xi Jinping isn’t actually directly elected, therefore tyranny.
I hear this shit sometimes here in Canada, as well. You remind people that that's how the prime minister works too, and their heads explode.
Or how Supreme Court justices are appointed… or how Senators and Governors used to be appointed… or how laws are passed
being the President for any country must mean you get to decide everything!
Which is fine in america, obviously, because they Just Know Better than the rest of us. How else would they be President?
for example look at noted geniuses Donald Trump, Joe Biden, and George Bush
I like world leaders who don’t die during their second term.
You may want to google FDR quickly.
It's authoritarian when people like their leaders
Because in America, we hate our politicians, so it has to be the same everywhere else
Have prodded libs, and this is legitimately the thought process of some of them
Like, it's absolutely wackadoo that there's an entire industry built around convincing people that politics is like some kind of complicated tabletop game with resource management and shit
I don't get it
Enacting popular policy uses up all your pOlItIcAl cApItAl which means you won't have enough to purchase reelection from the menu!
Consider term limits. The US Constitution was amended to enforce term limits in direct response to FDR’s popular 12-year presidency (he died in office, going on for 16). As a policy, it is self-evidently quite anti-democratic (robbing the people of a choice), but nevertheless it has been conceptually naturalized to the extent that the 2019 coup against Evo Morales was premised explicitly on the idea that repeated popular electoral victories constituted a form of dictatorship. If rotation was important to avoid corruption or complacency, corporations and supreme courts would institute term limits too. Term limits ensure that in the miraculous scenario that a scrupulous, charismatic, and intelligent individual becomes a rebellious political executive, they won’t be in power long enough to meaningfully challenge the entrenched power of corporate vehicles manned by CEOs with decades of experience. Wolfgang Schäuble, a powerful advocate of austerity policy in Europe, succinctly summarized the extent to which electoral democracy is subordinate: “Elections cannot be allowed to change economic policy.” One Party States and Democratic Centralism are not the result of lack of sophistication or cronyism, they are a proven bulwark that acknowledges that political power will often need to be exerted against the will of Capital, and so the wielders of said power must necessarily undergo a much more serious vetting process than a popularity contest.
from https://redsails.org/why-marxism/
You can tell how good Xi is for China based off of how many of China's arch enemies are currently pissing and shidding themselves at his 3rd term.
