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Re:FAA orders grounding of more than 170 Boeing 737 Max 9s by lostlogin on Saturday January 06, 2024 @07:02PM (#38896912)
> Honestly it’s super depressing and makes me question if we are even a functioning democracy (inverted corporate democracy perhaps?)

By international standards, US ‘democracy’ doesn’t get rated that highly.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Economist_Democracy_Inde....

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Re:FAA orders grounding of more than 170 Boeing 737 Max 9s by virtualritz on Sunday January 07, 2024 @01:52PM (#38903996)
> By international standards, US ‘democracy’ doesn’t get rated that highly.

For starters, it's a two party system.

Sharp tongues would point out that this is double the amount of political parties you'd "find" in Russia or China ...

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