Successful by what metric?

Economic cultural scientific military. Basically everything.

You will want to gtfo and move to Saudi Arabia then. Hope you're not female.

Iran and Russia and China are constitutional republics. It means nothing. Just another GOP dog whistle.

You miss King George III and your hatred of American values just caused you to wildly swing from republic to monarchy. Got it.

See above quote.

The quote from a British prime minister that says monarchy is worse than democracy?

but yeah go off saying Russia is somehow worse.

We don't push political opponents off buildings and kill them in prisons and plane accidents and poisonings over here Ivan.

https://static01.nyt.com/images/2022/02/24/world/CN-24ukraine-briefing-Russianprotestssub-copy/24ukraine-briefing-Russianprotestssub-videoSixteenByNine3000.jpg

"Title must fairly describe link contents. If your title differs from the site’s, it should only be to add context or be more descriptive."

I could be wrong, but I think this verbage was just added. Which is fine, because I suggested to mods that they make any rules about this explicit after they nuked the whole discussion. The only message to me was that it was nuked because of an "altered title".

Even so. My "title fairly describes link contents". Check. I changed it exactly to "be more descriptive". Check. So it still confirms to even the new standards. But at least now there is something that vaguely relates.

Censorship is a serious accusation, this doesn’t clear it.

It is serious enough for me to be glad that Lemmy has multiple sites to post things so that no one set of people are gatekeepers to information. I knew there was a reason why I loved the fact that Lemmy is decentralized.

“We do not want to be a democracy.”

The Nazis didn't want a democracy either. The neofascist movement that is trying to capture America just said the quiet part out loud.

I think this guy is a actually a bootlicker rather than a tankie. Ironic how they sound the same.

The most famous saying about democracy actually goes likes this....

Churchill: Many forms of Gov­ern­ment have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pre­tends that democ­ra­cy is per­fect or all-wise. Indeed it has been said that democ­ra­cy is the worst form of Gov­ern­ment except for all those oth­er forms that have been tried from time to time.…

These people are severely uneducated.

Nobody is really stupid enough to think that the word "democracy" is a value of the Democratic Party instead of one of the core values of all loyal Americans. Its a crude dog whistle to neofascists who despise American values.

At what point does this become manipulation with the intent of overthrowing the government?

We passed that point a long way back.

And seen by nobody at all. Letting critical facts quickly disappear into the ether while the neofascist movement repeats their same Big Lies over and over 50000x times is how the neofascist movement defeats democracy.

Because the media didn't report it much.