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      1 year ago

      I think the main difference is that people who hold different political opinions are not randomly falling out of windows

      The other difference is that you can have protests and still get what you want. Or you can vote and still have the change you voted for count.

      If voting didn’t matter at all in the US or other democracies, psyop campaigns wouldn’t be targeting the citizens, but only the leaders or officials, elected or otherwise

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          not assassinating its own citizens

          I meant more as in opposition party members or political foes are not routinely disposed of

          If people have the standards you claim they do, they sure as hell don’t vote that way.

          So I guess a more educated public might help in this case? How do you tell people they have it worse off? Americans are so dumb that they can’t even look at Nordic countries for good examples of how to be.