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This reads like a butchered Chomsky reference. In actual fact so-called liberal democracies are free to the degree that authoritarian tools wouldn’t and can’t
by avgcorrection 5y ago
This reads like a butchered Chomsky reference.
In actual fact so-called liberal democracies are free to the degree that authoritarian tools wouldn’t and can’t work.
- denton-scratch 5y ago"In actual fact <opinion>" Is the USA a liberal democracy? Authoritarian tools (like packing the courts) seem to work there. Successive UK governments have tightened control over the BBC. Assange stews in a high-security prison, untried, for reporting the truth. Craig Murray has just completed his prison sentence for reporting the truth. Neither of those jailings has received significant coverage in the mainstream UK press.
- avgcorrection 5y agoIt wasn’t meant to be a compliment. EDIT: I mean that the category “liberal democracy” is not meant as some kind of praise. That’s just what they/we call them.