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RedNote may wall off “TikTok refugees” to prevent US influence on Chinese users (arstechnica.com)
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[–] JiveTurkey@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Uhhh yeah. The Constitution establishes a federal democratic republic form of government. That is, we have an indivisible union of 50 sovereign States. It is a democracy because people govern themselves. It is representative because people choose elected officials by free and secret ballot.

[–] queermunist@lemmy.ml 1 points 23 minutes ago* (last edited 1 minute ago)

It's democracy when only white men are allowed to choose representatives? What?

It's settler-colonialism. Fascism. Where was the democracy for the Natives? Or the slaves? The original system has had many democratic reforms, but denying its roots as fundamentally undemocratic is historical revisionism and blinds you to the US's flaws. You'll never fix this country's problems if you can't even recognize this.