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> I can tell you that you are unequivocally wrong if you think that NK is anything like CA. It's a fun narrative of the uninformed. Also real democracies have
by bb88 5y ago
> I can tell you that you are unequivocally wrong if you think that NK is anything like CA. It's a fun narrative of the uninformed.
Also real democracies have real elections and real candidates and peaceful changes of power between politicians.
The DPRK, Russia, PRC, Venezuela all claim to be democracies -- but really they use assassination and imprisonment to quash dissent.
If the truckers wanted to protest with signs and march up and down sidewalks, or strike against carrying transport, those are all legal things they can do. But they can't block commerce...
- ComradePhil 5y ago>Also real democracies have real elections and real candidates and peaceful changes of power between politicians. I completely agree. And fake ones have faux elections with controlled oppositions where voting doesn't matter... like in the U.S. or Canada.
- arcticbull 5y agoHow familiar are you with Canada, Comrade Phil? We enjoy a vibrant, multi-party parliamentary democracy with all sorts of different opinions represented. We have five major parties, not two. An even an up-and-coming nutbag 6th.
- ComradePhil 5y agoThat's like saying Firefox is a competitor to Chrome... while Google pays Mozzila millions to keep it alive. Just so you know, North Korea has 4 political parties, China has 8, Russia has dozens. In faux democracies, small parties are paid for by the very same people who keep the big ones alive. Controlled opposition is very handy. People in power don't want to lose it just because half of the peasants don't like a face in an election.
- arcticbull 5y agoIt sounds like you know an awful lot about NK and the PRC and very little about Canada. I do wish you well, but your argument, to my point, is a highly fringe view.