The United States loses its status as a liberal democracy: ‘Trump is aiming for a dictatorship’
https://english.elpais.com/usa/2026-03-18/the-united-states-loses-its-status-as-a-liberal-democracy-trump-is-aiming-for-a-dictatorship.html
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Sciaphobia@sh.itjust.works · 30 pts · 149d
Losing?
makyo@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 149d
Yeah the country has been an oligarchy for a lot longer than most people realize
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 149d
yup. at least my entire life. fun thing is, i learned how to become an oligarch. i'm poor as fuck and am a local oligarch simply because i learned that the town's historical society, not city council decides shit. so i started going to the historical society's meetings and joined (a good quarter of the society worked with me running the homeless shelters and social services so i was more than welcome). now i have a major voice in how my town is run, just gotta show up once a month.
fun thing, membership is free. you just have to show up. but no one does, so we decide what the town's history is going to be.
cAUzapNEAGLb@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 149d
The headline and article all use past tense. Its lost.
lmdnw@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 149d
It is moral to kill all dictators and those who attempt to become dictators.
chaogomu@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 149d
I'd flip that around and say that it's immoral not to.
Spacehooks@reddthat.com · 4 pts · 148d
"You ask what right do I have to take their lives, those who know their nature ask me what right do I have to let them live"
AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor@piefed.social · 9 pts · 149d
Nobody ever could have predicted this outcome!
doesit@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 148d
Certainly not after J6
core@leminal.space · 6 pts · 149d
Lol Liberal? Democracy? The US hasn't bean either of those for a long time now.
Doomsider@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 148d
I think you meant ever.
GardenVarietyAnxiety@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 149d
This might be an unpopular opinion, but fuuuck, at least give us until the midterms.
Declaring this now just gives it more power to take hold.
HubertManne@piefed.social · 12 pts · 149d
I do disagree. We have to take it back but I don't see any value in pretending because we might reverse what has happened.
GardenVarietyAnxiety@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 149d
...fuck.
doesit@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 148d
Midterms will be either rigged or there will be a "state of emergency" or whatever.
Seems like a lot of people forgot what happened and what almost happened on January 6th. I strongly doubt power will be handed over.
chuckleslord@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 149d
Electoral politics got us into to this mess. Neither party is very interested in getting us out of it.
altphoto@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 149d
Who decides this?
chaogomu@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 149d
The V-Dem institute, out of the University of Gothenburg Sweden.
ChaosSpectre@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 149d
Opening links is hard huh?
Geth@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 148d
For me this like is paywalled.