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If the goal is to fight fascist tyranny wherever it is - and it damn well should be - then you will be better equipped to fight it where you are than anywhere else. It doesn't seem like that's your goal if you just try to act better than people in other countries that ostensibly have a bigger […]

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Þommy

@thomaswebb.net

But to answer the question Europeans are asking - here in the US we have a strong executive directly elected president. Every country that has this system has this problem. Even worse, we have an insurmountable 2/3rds requirement for removal in the senate, a body tied to state, not population […]

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Þommy

@thomaswebb.net

The whole system is confusing so even US citizens tend to have misconceptions. So to clear up some about impeachment: - Impeachment refers to the removal proceedings. We've impeached many presidents. We impeached Trump twice and will probably impeach him again. - Nixon resigned upon threat of […]

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Chris Alemany

@socialbc.ca

@thomasjwebb if the political system in place makes it impossible to remove a dictator than the only other option is sustained, overwhelming, popular protest. No one can help Americans with that part. The country needs to get off their collective butts and get in the streets every day until he’s […]

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Þommy

@thomaswebb.net

@chris I agree with this. One's responsibility is to fix their own country. There's usually very little that can be done to help other countries directly and fixing your own country's tyranny (especially if you're an influential country such as US, China or Russia) helps other countries quite a bit.