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On May 23, 2025 at 11:34:51 AM PDT, "moviePig" <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:

> 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"?

Oh, you mean they're the rare conservative university faculty? Much rumored to
exist but rarely, if ever, seen in the wild.