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Tedious Soapbox @lichaat.bsky.social · 18h

You do realize there were republics in Europe before the US was founded?
The US was modeled on the Republic of the Seven Netherlands.

Tedious Soapbox @lichaat.bsky.social · 1d

I have also heard people argue that fascism is extreme left on the political spectrum.

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Tedious Soapbox @lichaat.bsky.social · 1d

Most people in the US have no idea what communism, socialism, fascism, national socialism means. They use them as insults.
Many people in the US don’t even know what republic and democracy mean.

Tedious Soapbox @lichaat.bsky.social · 1d

Meh … the Dutch VoC predates that. It had its own currency and military. It had the authority to govern the areas it occupied/colonized

Tedious Soapbox @lichaat.bsky.social · 1d

When the US was founded, it was considered normal that only (wealthy) males could vote. The UK still has a House of Lords and the House of Commons wasn’t founded until 1801.
Women didn’t get voting rights in most of the world until the early/mid twentieth century.

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Tedious Soapbox @lichaat.bsky.social · 1d

You’re describing an oligarchy, which may or may not be fascist.
Citizens United is an abomination. US politics at every level is bought. The district system and electoral college limit honest representation and limit the ability for new parties. The US has not been a working democracy for decades

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Tedious Soapbox @lichaat.bsky.social · 1d

Neither democrats nor traditional republicans are fascists. The far right movement (MAGA) is.

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Tedious Soapbox @lichaat.bsky.social · 1d

History has shown that fascism can not be defeated without the loss of human life

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Tedious Soapbox @lichaat.bsky.social · 6d

112 in most countries of the world

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Tedious Soapbox @lichaat.bsky.social · 8d

They are not. There are no buffalo’s in North America (not counting the imported ones)

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Tedious Soapbox @lichaat.bsky.social · 8d

Again jerks. You are beautiful the way you are. And you should be commemorated for learning/speaking the language.

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Tedious Soapbox @lichaat.bsky.social · 8d

As a Dutch person … who cares, everyone has an accent. Ever heard a Twent, Limburger, Groningen or Zeeuw speak? Not to mention Amsterdams or Rotterdams …
Some people are just jerks and like to complain about everything

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Tedious Soapbox @lichaat.bsky.social · 13d

That is a valid complaint. One often used I the US to show universal healthcare doesn’t work.
Don’t be fooled. In the US we also wait weeks to see our GP and months for some specialists.

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Tedious Soapbox @lichaat.bsky.social · 27d

Tedious Soapbox @lichaat.bsky.social · Sep 17

When have facts ever mattered for this regime. Who remembers the “alternative-facts”?

Tedious Soapbox @lichaat.bsky.social · Sep 17

Venus, moon, Jupiter and others over Sacramento

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Tedious Soapbox @lichaat.bsky.social · Sep 10

That’s the same Supreme Court that ruled that universities can’t use race as one of the criteria for admission.
You can’t have it both ways. Either race is or it isn’t allowed. This is cherry picking in favor of the current regime.

Tedious Soapbox @lichaat.bsky.social · Sep 10

Get rid of the representative system. Simply use the % of votes to decide if someone is elected.
This also opens the door for new/smaller parties

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Tedious Soapbox @lichaat.bsky.social · Sep 10

Dengue has no US visum? Why does the graph stop at the US border?

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Tedious Soapbox @lichaat.bsky.social · Sep 3

And isn’t it wonderful?!

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Tedious Soapbox @lichaat.bsky.social · Sep 1

Is(n’t) America Great Again?! Modern day lynchings

Tedious Soapbox @lichaat.bsky.social · Aug 31

3 years and $30k is NOT good insurance. They want you to believe that’s good insurance

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Tedious Soapbox @lichaat.bsky.social · Aug 28

If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it...It…becomes vitally important for the State to use…its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the…enemy of the lie, and thus…the greatest enemy of the State.
— incorrectly attributed to Goebbels

Tedious Soapbox @lichaat.bsky.social · Aug 28

2. The original quote in The Crown of Life already mentions “lie”.
Hitler and Goebbels altered it into “Big Lie”, where Hitler used it to attack Jews, and Goebbels used it to attack Britain

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Tedious Soapbox @lichaat.bsky.social · Aug 28

1.The essential English leadership secret does not depend on particular intelligence. Rather, it depends on a remarkably stupid thick-headedness. The English follow the principle that when one lies, one should lie big, and stick to it. They keep up their lies, even at the risk of looking ridiculous.

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