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On 2025-05-23 18:34:51 +0000, moviePig said:

> On 5/23/2025 12:18 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
>> On May 23, 2025 at 12:19:07 AM PDT, "super70s" <super70s@super70s.invalid>
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> On 2025-05-23 02:09:09 +0000, BTR1701 said:
>>> 
>>>> On May 22, 2025 at 3:59:12 PM PDT, "super70s" <super70s@super70s.invalid>
>>>> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> On 2025-05-22 17:12:13 +0000, BTR1701 said:
>>>>> 
>>>>>> On May 22, 2025 at 9:00:45 AM PDT, "super70s" <super70s@super70s.invalid>
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> In article <100ncn3$3gior$2@dont-email.me>,
>>>>>>> Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> wrote:
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> Foolish old Orange Grandpa playing "fake news" while churlishly chastising
>>>>>>>> an experienced reporter. An international embarassment, every fscking day.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> No world leader is going to want to meet with him (with the exception of
>>>>>>> autocracies like the one he's hellbent to turn the US into). They don't
>>>>>>> want to be a pawn in his messaging to his base. Also they have their own
>>>>>>> constituents back home to consider.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Maybe him and Vance and Rubio can sit around in the Oval Office alone
>>>>>>> and lament the tragedy of American democracy.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Despite your inaccurate description of the U.S. as a democracy,
>>>>> 
>>>>> <roll eyes> One of those "America is a republic not a democracy" freaks.
>>>> 
>>>> <burps> Yeah, one of those "let's call things what they actually are"
>>>> freaks.
>>>> 
>>>> The U.S. is much more preferable than a democracy. Democracy as a form of
>>>> government is only slightly better than a dictatorship. Reduced down to its
>>>> essentials democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what's for dinner.
>>>> The sheep isn't gonna like the result of that election even though it was
>>>> arrived at democratically.
>>>> 
>>>>>> last I checked, we're still having elections and the current crew are there
>>>>>> because
>>>>>> they were voted in 'democratically'. I see no evidence that 'democracy' has
>>>>>> disappeared.
>>>>> 
>>>>> The US is now classified as a "deficient democracy," number 36 in a
>>>>> ranking of 176 countries.
>>>> 
>>>> Classified by whom? What are their credentials? What are their biases? Why
>>>> is
>>>> their opinion supposed to be considered fact?
>>> 
>>> See for yourself. And do your own research, I'm not Google.
>>> 
>>> https://www.democracymatrix.com/ranking
>> 
>> Well, if a bunch of leftist academics at Universitat Wurzburg say so, it must
>> be true.
> 
> How are they "leftist"?

They're serious and scholarly so obviously they can't be rightists.