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NorseTikiBar t1_it164q4 wrote

Reply to comment by chickunsendwich in Why is it legal for us to have no representation? by throwawayobviousw

I mean, people living in London and Berlin have representation. This is just some hokey American shit where people with a 4th grade knowledge of civics lecture about how it's perfect because they've never bothered spending an iota of time thinking critically about it.

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chickunsendwich t1_it2w08u wrote

UK and Germany allow citizens of their capital cities to vote, but they still arbitrarily exclude other groups of people living in their countries. One of the scams successfully pulled off by the architects of liberal democratic systems is that it's totally fine and normal to disenfranchise people if they meet certain criteria. As long as it's seen as acceptable to say a non-citizen living within the country's borders cannot vote, for example, the door is open for excluding other groups.

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BansheeLoveTriangle t1_it1bkij wrote

We’re stuck in democracy alpha testing.

Notice how we never export our ridiculous version of democracy overseas? It would never fly

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