▲ | throwaway2037 4 days ago | |||||||
Can you name some? I am confused by this term.Japan, Korea, Taiwan, India, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, and Indonesia all have fairly robust democracies. Yes, some of them probably look and feel different than those of NATO, but they are a great improvement over previous colonial administrations, monarchies, theocracies, and "single party democratic states" (Korea and Taiwan before late 1980s/early 1990s break-throughs). | ||||||||
▲ | specproc 4 days ago | parent | next [-] | |||||||
I was thinking largely of Russia, but when it comes to internet freedoms we're absolutely heading in a China direction. Coming at it here from a broadly UK perspective. We have: - Very little difference between ruling parties on core issues since the seventies, I'm thinking largely on the economic and foreign policy front here. - Prison under terrorism offenses for peaceful protest. - Arrests for (checks notes) complaining about the management of your local school in a WhatsApp group.[1] People who argue we're somehow better than the people we happen to be fighting need to take a long hard look around. And maybe also remember that when we're not fighting folks (e.g., Saudi, Israel) abhorrent behaviour is tolerated and supported. | ||||||||
▲ | kissaprofeetta 4 days ago | parent | prev [-] | |||||||
Japan has had a ruling party in power almost continously for 70 years. If the ruling party was not friendly to the West, then I bet you it would be called something else than democracy. | ||||||||
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