PHOENIX (AP) – The 2024 presidential election is drawing an unusually robust field of independent, third party and long shot candidates hoping to capitalize on Americans’ ambivalence and frustration over a likely rematch between Democrat Joe Biden and Republican Donald Trump.

  • @[email protected]
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    -37 months ago

    We’re not a democracy, we’re a republic.

    Not that that’s any better, but there is a difference between the two

    • @[email protected]
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      37 months ago

      We’re not a democracy, we’re a republic.

      Things Republicans say when defending voter suppression.

        • @[email protected]
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          47 months ago

          If you don’t want me pointing out that you’re using the same argument here that Republicans use when they’re defending voter suppression, select a different argument than the one Republicans use when they’re defending voter suppression.

          • @[email protected]
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            07 months ago

            It’s not an argument, it’s a factual statement. There is no debate here. I stated the fact that we are a republic, not a democracy. Am I happy with it? No. So I support it? No.

            It’s not an argument. It’s not a debate. It’s not a defense. It’s just a fact.

            You interpreting this as anything else is entirely your fault.

        • @[email protected]
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          17 months ago

          That’s the point of Political discussion, to grow your arguments and to learn from mistakes. It isn’t to convince someone to chance their position, that is impossible.

      • @[email protected]
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        07 months ago

        That’s not blue, it’s aqua! Both are blue Karen!

        A Republic has a Consitution that separates power away from a single person.

        A true Democracy has no means of protecting against a tyrant.

    • GodlessCommie
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      -87 months ago

      That’s the common response from shitlibs, ‘we need Biden to save democracy’

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        -17 months ago

        We need someone to stand up to Trump and protect our nation from a Tyrant. So far Joe Biden is the only individual with the titanium balls to do that. So yes, he is the only person standing between our Republic and a Christian Fascist Theocracy.

        • GodlessCommie
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          -37 months ago

          Biden has spent his entire career helping build the systems that enabled someone like Trump. Biden isnt fighting fascism, he’s enabled it to happen