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Subject: Re: Nazi White Supremacist Trump Seizes On Videos Of A Fringe South
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Date: Thu, 29 May 2025 17:34:51 -0400
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On 5/29/2025 2:43 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
> 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.

So, you mean "leftist academics" to be a tautology ...got it.  Let's 
just ignore how their report appears to be transparently objective and 
unbiased because, after all, it *couldn't* be, right?