It sounds like you don't know how this works. US backing a government usually means the country is rich in natural resources, the government in return then helps US companies to extract those resources.
"Somalia has reserves of several natural resources, including uranium, iron ore, tin, gypsum, bauxite, copper, salt and natural gas. The CIA reports that there are 5.663 billion cubic metres of proven natural gas reserves."
Now that sounds more and more like Iraq, doesn't it? US military is usually there to protect those corporate interests at the expenses of US tax payers, which US corporate tax paid about 11% of it, the rest is paid by the people.
So both US and Somali governments are stealing from it's people. Apparently only Somali people are aware of it. With "free and independent" corporate media owned by the 1% I am sure you are well informed.
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NGMI (1184)
3 years ago
yes, well what else can we do besides become terrorists ourselves? They already called protestors at the capitol "insurgents" who literally didnt harm a soul. Voting doesnt work because both sides have been poisoned so you replace one scumbag with another
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fc31 (4950)
3 years ago
Liberal democracy is great on paper but 2 things went wrong:
1) Political parties are built on funding so government is always controlled by the political parties with the most money, in most western countries that is big corporations and labor unions, but they represent less than 15% of population. That is hardly democracy.
2) The free press. Nobody is going to tell you something very obvious, the "free" press is almost entirely corporate owned. No mass media is owned by a poor person, not even a middle class. How could you have democracy if the free press is owned by the 1%.
The result is usually a government largely controlled by big corporations and the wealthy.
Voting doesnt work because both sides have been poisoned so you replace one scumbag with another
It is no accident politicians are scums, they are chosen to lie to us. We elect whoever lie to us the best.
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NGMI (1184)
3 years ago
Democracy was working when it had things to place to prevent morons from voting (IQ tests, knowing the language, owning property). Then the civil rights era was a guise to get the dumbest, most government dependent morons voting, so it's no shock all our reps are morons who shill for money, just like their voting base. Both are whore. The elite can do ANYTHING they want as long as these bottom feeders get some crumbs for doing nothing, like the commie swine they are. Break laws, change laws, embezzle, cheat in elections, turn all media into one giant psy op of conditioning and programming.
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fc31 (4950)
3 years ago
Even when voters are intelligent & well informed it is not going to work (And they are not, corporate media made sure of it).
You see there is a saying in liberal democratic countries:"We can't control who wins elections, but we can pick all the candidates".
You are only allowed to choose from the candidates pre-approved by corporate elites. There might be left or right, but they are just different factions of corporate elites. You can't really call billionaires such as Mike Bloomberg, Tom Steyer and Warren Buffett (all support democrats) commies, right?
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NGMI (1184)
3 years ago
True, but the voters are commies, the elite just use that to their advantage. For instance, Warren Buffet owns the train line that ships oil from Canada to the U.S. so telling everyone the keystone pipeline hurts the environment (vs a train running back and forth constantly is just ignored lol). They just exploit morons uninformed beliefs.
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fc31 (4950)
3 years ago
They just exploit morons uninformed beliefs.
Well, that is the cornerstone of liberal democracy.
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NGMI (1184)
3 years ago
which you eliminate by not allowing morons to vote. Sorry if that means only 2% of black and latinos, and 20% of white women (and Im being generous with those figures.)
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fc31 (4950)
3 years ago
Like I said before it won't make a difference. Politicians are going to do what corporate elites told them to do, not the voters.
The job of politicians is to sell the agenda of corporate elites to voters, spinning those agenda in a way sound like in the interests of people. Corporate media of course will help deliver them to voters and add their own touches.
Where voters make a difference are usually the issues corporate elites don't care or do not have a firm opinion.
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