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Re:Fifteen Years Ago, America Destroyed My Country by bogomipz on Tuesday March 20, 2018 @02:28PM (#16631199)
>"To be serious, blaming an "entire country" is a little more understandable if that country is a functioning democracy."

No it would be "more understandable" if that country was a direct democracy and the people actually voted on the resolution. The US is a representative democracy and often resembles a plutocracy at that.

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Re:Fifteen Years Ago, America Destroyed My Country by jmkb on Tuesday March 20, 2018 @02:35PM (#16631264)
Yes, compañero, this is pretty much what I was getting at. I said it was a little more understandable, but I didn't mean to imply it was correct.
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