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		JCattheATM 2 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Amazon's Ring and Google's Nest reveal the severit... Democracy has no built in controls to stop oligarchs becoming a thing, and the people were a problem in the first place as they voted against measures that would prevent them. See all the people voting for Reagan, for example.

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Gud 2 days ago [–]

The US is only nominally democratic

JCattheATM 2 days ago | [–]

With the population being what it is, it doesn't really matter.

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