• atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works
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    2 months ago

    I’m not sure why you would reply if you didn’t want to argue but okay.

    Thinking that individual European countries have local identities and states or others don’t is absolutely a lack of understanding and not a lack of context.

    That you seem to think that everyone in the US has the power to vote for or against the president would also seem to be a lack of understanding, I chose the leader of a specific country in Europe as my example for that reason.

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      2 months ago

      If you don’t have the power to vote for the president, you don’t live in a democracy.

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      2 months ago

      Thinking that individual European countries have local identities and states or others don’t is absolutely a lack of understanding and not a lack of context.

      That’s not at all what I said. It’s in fact the opposite and because of that I said I can’t argue with most of your previous points.

      On your latter point, I do lack some understanding on the native reservations, but as far as I know they’re still under the governance of the US to some extent. My assumption was they can at least participate in the ‘democracy’ which affects them immensely. It’s very sad that’s not the case…