• theUwUhugger@lemmy.world
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    11 hours ago

    Simply untrue?

    The us system is so wildly undemocratic with its two party, first past the post, electoral college that definitionally it cannot be considered a democracy!

    We may never know what happen and happened in russia! Boris Yeltsin, the president before Putin, literally disappeared for weeks then suddenly reappeared next to Putin to hold speeches… And you are telling me that Putin was elected democratically for the first round?

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      11 hours ago

      The us system is so wildly undemocratic with its two party, first past the post, electoral college that definitionally it cannot be considered a democracy!

      We can get into the philosophy of it, but Trump was as democratically elected as any other president in US history.

      And you are telling me that Putin was elected democratically for the first round?

      Until you can provide evidence to the contrary, yes.