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[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

"z" is typically "zed" in Bri'ish English

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago

Direct democracy is very prominent on a local level in at least Cuba and China (at least that's my impression), and probably in the DPRK, Vietnam and Laos, too. Having no elected representatives is completely unfeasible on a national level for any country with more than a hundred thousand or so citizens (and even that's stretching it IMO -- I doubt most people would be interested in keeping track of the effects of policies and events on tens of thousands of other people, especially if that's not their full-time job), which is why AES countries use representative systems but ensure that officials can be stripped of their positions if their work is unsatisfactory. With that said, a disagreement on that front doesn't justify insults

(obviously, people who reject you for recommending Capital are just unserious and/or ignorant, likely both)

[–] [email protected] 32 points 10 months ago

Direct democracy is very prominent on a local level in at least Cuba and China (at least that's my impression), and probably in the DPRK, Vietnam and Laos, too. Having no elected representatives is completely unfeasible on a national level for any country with more than a hundred thousand or so citizens (and even that's stretching it IMO -- I doubt most people would be interested in keeping track of the effects of policies and events on tens of thousands of other people, especially if that's not their full-time job), which is why AES countries use representative systems but ensure that officials can be stripped of their positions if their work is unsatisfactory. With that said, a disagreement on that front doesn't justify insults

(obviously, people who reject you for recommending Capital are just unserious and/or ignorant, likely both)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

"white people that want to be black people"?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago
[–] [email protected] 33 points 10 months ago

it's almost like changing the figurehead doesn't affect the foreign policy, who'd've thunk it

[–] [email protected] 35 points 10 months ago (2 children)

if you're arguing that Donald Trump was secretly working for Russia, I assume you have some actual evidence

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

mediabiasfactcheck.com is an absolute joke

[–] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago

what about it?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

this thing?

it's jarring at first but you get used to the weird proportions eventually

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