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You should have learned by now that representative democracy is not a meaningful practice, given its track record of almost no successes.

Also, you literally do coups - including against democratically elected governments - all the time, and don't have an issue with that.

The implication behind "democracy" is an equal vote democracy, which the US is objectively not. Which was the whole point of my comment. You can call us a democracy in the same way a slave state is a democracy if you're white. Our representative elections are not democratic, and individual wealthy people have an outsized vote over millions of people.

You didn't understand what I was saying, are too much of a moron to understand that, and think that it's me who isn't smart enough.

I would ask you, "when was the last time you voted for a policy and got it?" which would be "never" for me, but I don't know your politics, so I'll just point out that 70% of Americans want single-payer healthcare but most politicians side with the insurance companies for some mysterious reason, and there's nothing we can do about it as an electorate because our only option is to vote "lesser evil" every few years or boycott the elections and watch other people vote lesser evil.

If you've ever heard of ALEC, then you should already know exactly who this "representative" "democracy" functionally represents.

Everyone is biased, dipshit. Including you and the sources you get your news from. Not understanding something as fundamental as this makes your smugness even more embarrassing than it already is. Keep it up.

Tagline material.

Marxists.org is a collection of works on political theory. They aren't really biased beyond wanting to preserve the works and provide easy access to them.

The link is to something written by Lenin in 1917, referencing something Marx wrote earlier. I suppose you could say that Lenin and Marx were biased in the sense that they had strong views but that isn't a valid reason to dismiss everything they ever said, and that ignorant perspective is just going to get you laughed at here.

What's a site that's not biased according to you

Pointing to an obviously biased website is crazy

Ableist concern trolling shit aside, what is your "nonbiased" source, asshole?

marxists.org is an archive of hundreds of thousands of texts by influential sociologists, historians, political economists and political theorists. It's not our "facts" it's an argument in the form of a written text. Perhaps you should sit down and take the time to read sometimes and maybe learn something.

They're quoting Marx which is being hosted on marxists.org, you brick.

Also everyone is biased, objective reporting is literally impossible. Learn how to do source critique and text analysis instead of just gargling the same thought-killing propaganda you've been regurgitating your whole life

Are the marxists bad

Everybody is biased. Denying one's own biases just means that you do not understand them.

lol, lmao

Want to come over, I'll read it to you directly from a book?

space cadet

noun

1. One who shows difficulty in grasping or responding appropriately to serious or necessary concerns; a spacy person.

good bit tbh, sorry anyone wasted their time responding to you

Tell me you're an "enlightened centrist" without telling me you're an enlightened centrist...

You need a 'fat source' for stuff like the invasions of Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Vietnam, Iraq, etc., the coups in Brazil, Chile, Ukraine, etc., settler-colonialism in the Americas, in Palestine, slavery and segregation in the US itself, neocolonialism happening/being a thing and not just being a figment of everybody's imagination?

I mean, if you want me to, I can provide sources for those things happening, but I think that it's pretty obvious that those things did/do happen/are happening.

Here's a source for you: Wikipedia.com