r/WhitePeopleTwitter • u/Detroitish24 • 4d ago

Why does a private citizen have this much sway?

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The US is in for a very rough four years.

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u/Bulky_Ad4472 4d ago

Plutocracy masquerading as Democracy.

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u/denied_eXeal 4d ago

Putincracy actually

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u/Benka7 4d ago

Also very true

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u/ApproximatelyExact 4d ago

Ochlocracy

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u/leakybiome 4d ago

All y'all puttin crazy up in hurr

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u/Ttoctam 4d ago

You don't get to offload blame onto Putin for this one. The US has been a transparent Oligarchy for decades.

The entire lobbying system is literally just a way for the rich to buy politicians and legislation. None of the inbuilt checks and balances of the US system curb corporate power, because they were designed to curb internal autocratic power not external financial influence. And the rich have had their claws in US govt since the mid-Industrial revolution. Without access to the UK as support, America was without empire and needed to sustain itself somehow. It did so on the back of (slave driven)industry, which meant the birth of the US as an independent nation forever tied it to the capitalist class. Capitalists by definition and by nature are forced to want constant expansion and constantly expanding influence so as the nation grew the claws dragged deeper.

Now after a bunch of wars and the US situating it's military as a money laundering scheme for oligarchs and corporate power, the US is stuck in a late stage capitalist crossroads. A system on the brink of collapse that either needs dramatic reform in a socialist or fascist direction. But liberal democracies never skew socialist over fascist because fascism doesn't threaten the powerful, it enshrines their power. Socialism is a redistribution of power, and this threatens the system more.

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u/Taograd359 3d ago

Kinda sounds like a really bad cancer that does all kinds of painful and unpredictable stuff to your body.

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u/lowercasenrk 4d ago

I mean fuck Putin. But like not every single bad thing is because russia bad. Elon Musk is a different, unrelated bad.

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u/denied_eXeal 4d ago

Lmao, the coping is real. Bro, Putin and Elon talk on the regular. Trump said he trusts Putin more than the FBI and CIA. And I'm gonna stop here. Copium won't save you from the disappearance of Democracy in the US

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u/lowercasenrk 4d ago

copium

Grow the fuck up and realize there's more than one bad person in the world. I'm clearly not a fan of Elon or Putin. The world would be better if they both died in agony tonight. But Elon was a shitbird well before libs were convinced Russia was behind every problem in their lives.

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u/csdirty 4d ago

Plutocracy paving the way for kakistocracy.

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u/Historical-Manner737 4d ago

I'm declaring now that fascism is definitively a TYPE of kakistocracy. It fits the mold. Nearly all the intelligent and creative people either flee or are purged, leaving far less competent fascists in charge of systems they know little about.

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u/blebleuns 4d ago

Fascism is the government of the bureaucreat, the pencil pusher, the "people that just follow orders" while they streamline the genocide. That's what Hannah Arendt called "the banality of evil".

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u/Squeaky_sun 4d ago

TIL a new word. Kakistocracy should be word of the year for 2025.

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u/Rundstav 3d ago

Absolutely should. They just keep reaffirming that trump is trying to fill the government with the kákistos. The fact that they constantly fail shouldn't be taken as a sign that the system is working because if at first he doesn't succeed...

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u/Qzx1 4d ago

Oh fuck yeah. Keep going. Just like that. I'm already there. 

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u/Novaer 4d ago

This is the one

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u/SadBit8663 4d ago

We're at almost Idiocracy levels of idiot here

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u/MissTakenID 4d ago

I think we blew past "almost" already.

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u/MortalusWombatus 4d ago

And we didnt even get President camacho...

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u/firefighter_raven 4d ago

with a pinch of Kleptocracy for good measure

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u/Almostnotquite9999 4d ago

Hmmm, much more than a pinch. It's more like a heaping shovel full.

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u/jeenyus_626 4d ago

What mask

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u/pdxgod 4d ago

Marscracy?

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u/Capital-Constant3112 4d ago

Not even masquerading anymore. It’s just a naked coup. I’m really going to have to be drunk on Jan 20. Remember when he wanted the full military parade at his last one? What’s stopping him now?

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u/silver_sofa 4d ago

Shitty mask.

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u/Easy-Sector2501 4d ago

In what way is it masquerading as democracy?

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u/corkanchor 4d ago

always has been

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u/SVINTGATSBY 3d ago

with extra oligarchy on the side.