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> If you think "liberal democracies" still carries the same positive vibe across the world that it used to some years ago you are in for a big surprise. I mean
by filoleg 4y ago
> If you think "liberal democracies" still carries the same positive vibe across the world that it used to some years ago you are in for a big surprise.
I mean, I agree that it doesn't carry the same positive vibes that it used to, but it still carries much better vibes than "corrupt authoritarian semi-dictatorships".
To those who might try going "muh western propaganda" on this, save your time. I am speaking as someone who grew up in one of those "corrupt authoritarian semi-dictatorships" and eventually immigrated to a "liberal democracy".
- corrral 4y ago"Two cheers for democracy", as usual, to borrow Forster's words. As he noted, it doesn't merit three cheers. Two, though? Maybe two.
- jiggawatts 4y agoYeah, the gaslighting cracks me up. I too escaped a former Soviet bloc country that Russia invaded in exactly the same way it is invading Ukraine right now. I now live in one of those “horrible” western democracies where I can tell the Prime Minister that he’s an idiot to his face and the worst that’ll happen is that he’ll laugh at me in a dismissive way. But these countries are “all the same”, right? Right?
- swader999 4y agoI live in one of those two. Six million are prevented from traveling by plane in mine at the moment.