Re: Nazi White Supremacist Trump Seizes On Videos Of A Fringe South African Politician As Evidence Of Threats To White Farmers

On 5/29/2025 10:21 PM, BTR1701 wrote:

On May 29, 2025 at 2:34:51 PM PDT, "moviePig" <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:
 

On 5/29/2025 2:43 PM, BTR1701 wrote:

  On May 23, 2025 at 11:34:51 AM PDT, "moviePig" <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:
 

  On 5/23/2025 12:18 PM, BTR1701 wrote:

    On May 23, 2025 at 12:19:07 AM PDT, "super70s" <super70s@super70s.invalid>
    wrote:
   

    On 2025-05-23 02:09:09 +0000, BTR1701 said:

>

last I checked, we're still having elections and the current crew are
there because they were voted in 'democratically'. I see no evidence that
'democracy' has disappeared.

      The US is now classified as a "deficient democracy," number 36 in a
ranking of 176 countries.

          Classified by whom? What are their credentials? What are their biases? Why
    is their opinion supposed to be considered fact?

>
See for yourself. And do your own research, I'm not Google.
>
https://www.democracymatrix.com/ranking

      Well, if a bunch of leftist academics at Universitat Wurzburg say so, it
  must be true.

>
  How are they "leftist"?

    Oh, you mean they're the rare conservative university faculty? Much rumored
to
  exist but rarely, if ever, seen in the wild.

>
So, you mean "leftist academics" to be a tautology ...got it.

 What is it you people have against pattern recognition? Every time an
overwhelming pattern presents itself, we're chastised by the Left for noticing
it.
 

Let's just ignore how their report appears to be transparently objective and
unbiased because, after all, it *couldn't* be, right?

 No, it couldn't be. I have the same access to ballot box now that I did under
Biden and Obama and Bush and Clinton. No one has been disenfranchised. In
fact, the opposite is true. People are being franchised these days who
shouldn't be. More and more localities in blue states are giving illegal
aliens the right to vote. If *that's* what Wurzburg means by a "deficient
democracy", then I retract my criticism and agree, but somehow I doubt they
see that as a bad thing.

If you actually glance at the paper, you'll see that it ranks 176 putatively democracies according to a specified formula.  (The U.S. ranked 36th.)  Since this is obviously the sort of off-the-wall compilation that only an "academic" would undertake, you seem to judge such a list corrupt from conception.  Saves time, I guess...