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I will never understand how people in the US are okay with this. Don't people care about justice at all over there?

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vikramkr|5 years ago

You see giant protests occupying cities for weeks and your first thought is that americans are totally OK with the state of things? All those folks on the street in Hong kong - they must just be out there celebrating their loss of liberties! It's a big party!

devenblake|5 years ago

There may be giant protests, but Americans continue to elect leaders that refuse to serve their interests.

rabite|5 years ago

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peroporque|5 years ago

Those protests in the US have nothing to do with justice. They are about power.

x86_64Ubuntu|5 years ago

Not really. When you ignore all the marketing material about "freedom" and such that accompanies a discussion about the US, you see that we are an extremely authoritarian country.

peroporque|5 years ago

Of course you have. These guys come to mind articlesofunity.org for example.

Sargos|5 years ago

We're not okay with this but we have no way to change the laws that are made by our Lords.

tutuca|5 years ago

Well to be fair. If more population were concerned an actively participating in democracy, by at the least get out and go to vote, some thing would change, for sure.

USA has the lowest participation on any democracy I know.

Universal obligatory vote is something that does wonders and produce actual change.