You’d think a hegemony with a 100-years tradition of upkeeping democracy against major non-democratic players, would have some mechanism that would prevent itself from throwing down it’s key ideology.

Is it really that the president is all that decides about the future of democracy itself? Is 53 out of 100 senate seats really enough to make country fall into authoritarian regime? Is the army really not constitutionally obliged to step in and save the day?

I’d never think that, of all places, American democracy would be the most volatile.

  • merc@sh.itjust.works
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    3 hours ago

    Trump has said that Elon “knows those computers better than anybody … And we ended up winning Pennsylvania like in a landslide”.

    First of all, we know that to be false because we know Elon doesn’t know shit about computers. But, aside from that, there are multiple possible interpretations of what he meant, anything from “Elon rigged the election” to “Elon ensured the integrity of the election”.

    My policy is “Don’t believe anything Trump says about anything”. I don’t change that policy when he says something that I want to believe is true.