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Oh no! A country that's successfully modernized in 50 years! The horror

• hkt 8y ago
  I'd rather be in a country where I get a meaningful vote. The downvotes I'm receiving are indicative that there is a contingent of unpleasant faux-libertarians, populists, and other assorted anti-democratic trolls and scumbags on HN. Edit: also, the EU has done a better job of modernising some of the biggest and oldest states the world has ever known over the last 50 years, and has done so at the behest of democracy.
  • Nasrudith 8y ago
    I have snarked before the best way to get rid of dictatorship brigades with a minimum of effort is to start posting references to their Tiananmen Squares - very awkward facts they don't want disseminated and may have auto-blocked.
    • hkt 8y ago
      You may be a literal genius. Great idea.
  • nostrebored 8y ago
    Right, that's why large swathes of Europe face 40% youth unemployment, higher than where I live in Africa, right?