• ByteJunk@lemmy.world
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    12 hours ago

    Optical illusion. Plutocrats sharing power among themselves is not democracy, friend.

        • Justin@lemmy.jlh.name
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          2 hours ago

          “sharing power” implies that non-plutocrats are not involved in the decision, i.e. implying elections are fake

      • leftytighty@slrpnk.net
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        9 hours ago

        It’s not about the elections it’s about who gets the support and opportunity and resources to win elections.

        A footrace can be executed completely fairly and transparently but if you need to buy special expensive shoes to participate and you receive them at someone else’s discretion and you need to join one of two private clubs to get an invitation and the leaders and members of those clubs also apply discretion then a lot of unfair choices and decisions are being made before the starter pistol goes off.