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[–] AsyncTheYeen@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The right given by the "democratic" capitalist state to own the means of production is the root cause of this problem

[–] balderdash9@lemmy.zip 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

I love the quotation marks here. We have two parties that are both team stock-market/GDP, and there is no third option: we can hardly be called a democracy.

I mean, between our FPTT voting system, the electoral college and rampant gerrymandering we have absolutely no right to call ourselves a democracy.