Comment by scarecrowbob

Hell, yall can put people in concentration camps, enslave folks, summarily execute them.

It's great. /s

Look: I live next to a reservation, where the US gov committed war crimes. There's a fort up the hill a quarter mile up from where I am, which was a "residential school" where the US gov put kidnapped children to "educate them".

You are 100% right that democracy can coexist with all manner of depravity.

We get it, yall can happily do enact horrors you feel like enacting on the rest of us and still enjoy feeling smug that we don't like it.

But that fact means that something being "democratic" does not mean that we should respect what you do just because you have a veneer of democracy across it.

I am profoundly grateful I have so many greater crimes commited by the US to contextualize what, in the big scheme of things, is a meaningless and goofy action. If I didn't know that they were spearheading the literal ecocide of the planet while incarcerating more people than have every been locked up, while simultaniously funding a genocide in Israel, I'd probably feel like this is some kind of espeically bad thing.

But it's not; it barely even registers once you start looking at the millions of people that the US has directly murdered in the last 250 years.

But It's Great! (tm)