kadup

The point is that you don’t know the first thing about American politics,

You couldn’t even comprehend the point being made, misinterpreting it so fundamentally I genuinely - non-ironically - believe you struggled reading the words being written.

and are wholly unqualified to make any comments about it.

And yet, what I wrote is an aspect of democratic structures so fundamentally basic it wouldn’t even matter if the US was the target of the comment. Funny how that is.

Let me hijack your comment mentioning Krita with another KDE app: Okular!

I simply can’t believe a PDF app can be this performant, this fully featured, and entirely free. It even works on Windows, if you’re trapped in that nightmare.

Adobe Acrobat Reader, from the people who created the PDF format, is unbelievably slow, it takes a thousand steps through an ugly UI to do anything useful, and any feature you actually care about is locked behind payment. Okular, a free tool, will load PDFs instantly, render previews flawlessly, let you edit, sign, merge, add text, select text, whatever you wish.

And KDE creates this app and a thousand others for less money than Mozilla wasted on some random bs last year. Long live KDE.

If you honestly think a military junta would be more representative of the American people than Trump, then I don’t know what to tell you.

Good thing I never made such claim and absolutely nothing on my comment reaches that conclusion, then.

Also our president is not elected via majority (or plurality) vote.

The details about your horrendous electoral system are irrelevant to the point, which by now is very clear you didn’t understand.

You’re not doing much to fight the stereotype of americans lacking basic reading comprehension though.

a huge emphasis on giving the people the power to write their own collective destiny.

A functional democracy is not a dictatorship of the majority, and people from the US love making this mistake. It is true that the president gets elected by a majority vote… but this person now represents everyone, including the minority that opposes them. They do not have the right to sink the ship and kill everyone because the majority thinks that’s a good idea.

It is natural that their government will make decisions aligned with their voters (in theory) but they shouldn’t be allowed to actively undermine the rights of everyone else.

No matter how inflated your perception of your “flawless” constitution and democracy is, this is something many countries understand pretty well and yours struggles with.

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