Because torture is the one thing the US will never ban. Just like slavery.

The US military has a strong no first use policy

LOL!

You are immoral and degrading.

Socialism would be nice.

Or just something that can actually be called democratic with a straight face.

that make non-americans like me pray for the fall of the American Empire.

I’m praying with you. But prayer will only get us so far.

Did they pay you extra for this hot take, hasbara?

I’ve heard US and France’s political systems referred to as “flawed democracies”.

Painting a lighter shade of lipstick on a pig doesn’t make the pig less of a pig.

I personally didn’t call either a democracy,

No, you didn’t. And that is legit refreshing.

I’ve explained why imho not voting was the least reasonable choice

I never said that not voting was reasonable. My point is that it’s perfectly UNDERSTANDABLE.

There is a difference.

There were two options.

Do tell… how does the meaning of the term democracy turn into an enforced choice between a mere “two options” inside your head? “Two options” that, let us not forget, share more similarities than differences and are inevitably designed to benefit the powerful elites that CURATED these choices FOR you?

So I guess it truly is YOUR genocide then, eh?

Colour me surprised.

an ignorant decadent American college student.

Those Yankee college students staging protests on US campuses are far better at “doing” democracy than all the voting you could do over a lifetime put together.

Perhaps it’s best that you don’t try to flex about something you don’t seem to know too much about, okay?

lmfao, YES

I just love baseless confidence.

Let’s be hearing them, then.

You won.

Lol!

No, the onus is first on you first to explain why “we don’t exist in a democratic society”

Did you vote FOR the ongoing genocide the liberal status quo is funding in Palestine as we speak, genius? Were you ever given the chance, hmm?

Yes or no?

If no, where is your “public power?” Where is the democratic power you should have if you actually existed in a democratic society?

To a non-brainwashed person, this would be perfectly obvious. But it’s not obvious to YOU.

above all what is your brilliant plan for making things better.

Now you are demanding solutions to a problem you insist do not exist. A bit incoherent, don’t you think?

while you undermine the system by opting out of it

ROFLMAO!

Good job demonstrating that you don’t have the foggiest understanding of the system you are defending.

Elections might be skewed,

If you want to see this glorified rubberstamping of elite rule through those kind of rose-tinted spectacles, fine.

But don’t call it “democracy.”

I used to be cynical like you

If you think seeing through propaganda is “cynicism,” boy, do I have bad news for YOU.

is the hard-won achievement of generations of people who came before you.

Really? The generations of people who resisted and fought against THIS EXACT STATUS QUO would be proud of these glorified rubberstamping spectacles which only exist to legitimize elite rule?

Really?

Boring liberal representative democracy is the exception in world history.

Really? So the ongoing genocide your “boring liberal representative democracy” is funding is… an exception? The history books says otherwise.

Most people in the world have never had the opportunity that you have to influence your government.

Lol! Do I sound like a billionaire parasite to you?

then I for one don’t care what you have to say about politics.

What’s the matter, liberal? Is all the cognitive dissonance starting to make you feel queesy?

Being able to demonstrate that I tried to do something

Participating in a glorified spectacle that simply exists to rubberstamp elite rule qualifies as “doing something” to you?

Make coffee.

Should I have thoughts on them?

Democracy relies on participation

You don’t exist in a democratic society. So what exactly do you want people to participate in?

They actively brought about political disaster

You want to blame the people who didn’t participate in anti-democratic spectacles for the existence of said anti-democratic spectacles?

They should shut up about politics

Not participating in fake, anti-democratic spectacles (somehow) “disqualifies” one from talking about politics?