Communism controls the truth, while democracy warps the truth.

@Elessar Things also get messy when you ask "what version of democracy are you talking about?"

@thewindupbirdchronicles It's just frustrating when you make the false claims Socialist states were communist.

@Gloomy I never did, check my replies. I said socialism has only been tried once.

@Gloomy But it's ample evidence to suggest (for me) no political, nor economic system will ever hold the fabric of what being human is. Why I veer away from these conversations.

@Longpatrol just like Kelly Ann said, we have alternative facts.

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@Freeranger Just fight it out among your self

@Freeranger quit thinking it's not working for you

@Brasceo telling people what to think? Quit being an authoritarian douche.

@PicturesOfABetterTomorrow but the science gets done

@kartoffelkopf2 True. Which is why Democracy is the second worst political system. The worst is everything else.

@PicturesOfABetterTomorrow To the contrary the opposite is true compared to any other poltical system.

@Spotpot If you believe that I have a bridge to sell you. At least if we are talking so called western style representative "democracy."

@Roundandroundwego in war always Fair.

@Disgustedman Nice job proving you don't know what those words mean but studied your cold war talking points real good.

@PicturesOfABetterTomorrow do you think I really care?

@PicturesOfABetterTomorrow fuck head I don't need to read a book to answer common sense go eat bull cock

@Brasceo You are also announcing to the world you have no idea what common sense is either. Not to mention common sense is often wrong. Consensus doesn't magically make something factual.

But that distinction is above your ability to understand.

@PicturesOfABetterTomorrow stick your head up someone elses ass you super smart genius

@DeluxedEdition Not necessarily, there are several healthy democracies all over the world, it's not that the US is the only democracy or even the healthiest, neither currently nor historically.

What kills democracy is

1) inequality, allowing very rich people to accrue more and more money (which traslates to power, the moment they start using that money to buy politicians, media outlets, set up propaganda machines, and so forth) in order to de-facto become oligarchs, or get away with crimes unpunished, and I may agree with you that's the direction you're taking

2) the widespread idea that "we need a strong leader to fix the country" or "voting and not voting is just the same", "all choices bad" or anything sounding like that which gets people disenfranchised to do anything to fight against point (1) and at a later stage turns into "yeah, s/he may be a dictator, but still better than the chaos we'd have otherwise". Which is the exact kind of mentality that keeps and kept people like Putin high in the polls and safe from being overthrown for decades.