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Remember, the social Democrats sided with the Nazis over the socialists. They’ve done it every time they’ve been given the opportunity, and will continue to do so as many times as people fall for their shtick.

“The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house."
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[–] BartsBigBugBag@lemmy.tf 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

And under which ideology was that democracy index created? Why would liberal Democratic countries have a material interest in convincing their populations that they are Democratic in nature, while functioning entirely and scientifically proven as an oligarchy?

[–] jabberati@social.anoxinon.de 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

@BartsBigBugBag Yes, people with money have a lot of influence on elections. How do you think we should fix it? Otherwise the index looks pretty accurate to me, the most democratic countries seem to be on the top, the most authoritarian countries are on the bottom.

[–] BartsBigBugBag@lemmy.tf 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

There are examples of countries that prioritize the desires and needs of their population above the desires of capital, they’re heavily demonized in the west though. If you actually go to them, you might find out most of what you learned is literally completely bullshit, because it is.

[–] lol3droflxp@kbin.social 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)
[–] cnnrduncan@beehaw.org 1 points 2 years ago

Going by the "demonized in the West" part they're probably talking about North Korea, Russia, Eritrea, and the like.

[–] Klear@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Russia, China, Noth Korea, I bet.

[–] BartsBigBugBag@lemmy.tf 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

God no, Russia is a capitalist oligarchy hellhole run by a violent strong man. How tf could they take care of their people when the first order of business when they took over as the Russian Federation was literally to gut all public services and infrastructure and sell it on the capitalist markets for a profit. I bet it feels good to put imaginary boxes around people who say things you don’t like though.