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USA: vote for either of these rich old men
China: these rich old men will vote for each other
Russia: neighbor, vote for our rich old man or we will shoot you
Australia: voting is compulsory, but you can just draw a dick on the ballot if you want.
Europe: vote in a bazillion different levels of governance and still it's the same old rich people who decide what happens
i wonder if I'll be like half-super-powerful if I'm getting half of these qualifying attributes ๐ด๐ฝโ ๏ธ
In the Netherlands you can also do this, but if you then attribute the dick to a politician it will be considered invalid.
Well technically, since the US has the electoral college, the US is what you wrote down is China.
But that aside, one of Chomsky's books or something from the 80's discussed exactly that difference. Or was it Slavoj Zizek? Anyway.
How in the US, there's an illusion of choice, but how in Russia, there's only the one option. Both Americans and Russians have equally much agency, but the Americans want to believe it isn't true for them, whereas Russians are bored of pretending it's not true for them.
Or something. Memory fails.