the left is becoming the party of the bourgeois, while the right wing "big business" party is becoming the working man's party

cant do that. how will the politicians become billionaires then with just a 100k salary

speaking fees in qatar and saudi arabia <:makes_you_think:382980749780844554>

or Russia

nothing suspicious that your husband goes to Russia for a 30 min speak and your foundation get a huge donation. and a few weeks later you sign off a deal with your long time enemy that gives them 40% of all your nations uranium stockpiles

bro giving russia uranium as a western country should be considered treason

in the past you was shot just thinking that. we need to put a generator on Hoover now as he is probably spinning so hard that it can supply the world with free electricity for ever now

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqXzZKtCFGc

https://screenshots.firefox.com/DN89p4H767Cev7E3/www.bbc.co.uk

commies REKT by BASED conservatives

https://tenor.com/view/pepe-laugh-kek-intensifies-kek_intensifies-gif-10111909

apparently polling suggested labor was a sure thing

another polling fail it seems

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https://twitter.com/nntaleb/status/1129745595525140482

why do americans seem to make such a big deal about stressing the difference between THEIR system of constitutional republic and a 'democracy'
is this some 7th grade civics class thing?

i mean it's not all americans, but i must have seen at least 100 make this exact point the same way

can't just be a coincidence

To people who aren't morons its nothing

but progressives are very attached to direct democracy concepts

https://twitter.com/MichelleDewbs/status/1129779868797931520

MK11: How dare you objectify women and show too much skin! Change it!

Life is Strange: 16yo kids fucking on screen is perfectly fine

lel

bro 16 yos are old enough to vote, why can't you show them fucking in a vidya game

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"no" on both counts

@Tero Because we get bashed over the head with the false idea that we are a democracy constantly.

but you are

just democracy via representatives, rather than directly

We are a constitutional republic. Our votes are not direct, and can even be dismissed by the representative in the case of the Electoral College.

We do not vote on Federal structure aside from presidencies, and see above as to why this is not democratic.

We are a democracy LOCALLY.

But the local authorities answer to Federal ones.

you vote on federal representatives

and the ones not voted on directly, are chosen by people who are

Yes, who are not supposed to do anything but represent their state. They were never meant to be *part* of the Federal machine so much as a method of checking its power.

Almost the entirety of public officials are completely unelected, such as FBI Director.

sure, but that's the same in every european and anglosphere country