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Of Course It's a Coup

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Re: Of Course It's a Coup

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Post by sebazzz »

Trasmatta wrote: post #4

It's a coup that is being allowed and empowered by the party that already controls all 3 branches of government. It's very clear what's happening: what's less clear to me is how to stop it. EDIT: this post keeps getting flagged. The techbros who are currently destroying our democracy are upset that they're being called out.

It is really the fault of the US being a presidential system rather than a parlementary system in combination with district voting system. This allows for one person to easily take hold of democracy - if that person does not respect democracy. It went well so far, but that is despite social media - not because of it.

In the Netherlands we really dodged a bullet on this, post WWII the UK and US had an example function when it came to democracy. The democratic D66 party attempted to transform the Netherlands to such a system but it didn’t go through. We still have a proportial voted parlementary system, which luckily allowed populist and radical parties BBB and PVV not to take too much hold on our democracy - and they are likely on their way out.

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Post by kreetx »

anon2549 wrote: post #34
kreetx wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As an European, I don't quite get what people are complaining about, Trump is doing what he said he will do and has a mandate for it. Of course the Democrat university professor will try to rally up people.

> has a mandate for it He certainly has no mandate for anything. He only barely won.

Is the typical presidential win much more substantial?

Re: Of Course It's a Coup

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Post by anon2549 »

kreetx wrote: post #42
anon2549 wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> has a mandate for it He certainly has no mandate for anything. He only barely won.

Is the typical presidential win much more substantial?

Yes. This is the slimmest margin of victory since at least Lyndon Johnson in 1964.

Re: Of Course It's a Coup

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Post by monetus »

monetus wrote: post #8

One torment on an individual level, is that none of us have any particular agency to do anything about it. Not alone, not even with many. Overwhelming numbers accompanied by intense societal disfunction could, maybe, possibly work. Signs and angry chants won't stop these loons. Strategic occupations might help, like MLK overburdening jails during sit-ins, but even that is an annoyance they will put down violently if…

*dysfunction

Re: Of Course It's a Coup

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Post by kreetx »

anon2549 wrote: post #43
kreetx wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is the typical presidential win much more substantial?

Yes. This is the slimmest margin of victory since at least Lyndon Johnson in 1964.

Do you mean the margin presented in the table here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_presiden...

And how does one come up with sufficient margins for the president to do any given thing?

Re: Of Course It's a Coup

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Post by kreetx »

throwaway5752 wrote: post #38
kreetx wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Are you able to consider that others have an opposing opinion to yours?

Do you have a more substantiative point than this? To answer your question, yes I do. To try to guess what you are talking about, I'd say it's "Bluster tricks fools". I'm not saying everyone that disagrees with this administrations actions are fools, far from it. But they are governing by press release of administrative action. They could do everything they are doing quietly, but they are not. It is clear they are tr…

Well, the author says that what is going on is "all illegal" because nobody voted for Elon Musk. But if you only count who was specifically voted for, could a president even have a team or should they be alone, as nobody else was voted for?

The original topic text isn't "high quality, factual, and relevant", it's a person not happy with the outcome. IMO, that's life for you - sometimes you lose.

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