Comment by agsqwe
5 months ago
Everything is relative. I'm an immigrant from a post-USSR country and the US is still orders of magnitude more democratic and free
5 months ago
Everything is relative. I'm an immigrant from a post-USSR country and the US is still orders of magnitude more democratic and free
Doubt. What are post-USSR countries (except for Ukraine) where government detains lots of people who hasn't committed any crimes? How many people get wrongfully killed by cops in post-USSR countries? In U.S. that's like a sport for cops to find an excuse to unalive someone.
And what is democratic about the fact that majority of people votes for candidate A, yet candidate B becomes the president because... because it's people don't actually vote for president, they vote for someone who counts pro-some party and it's THEY who vote for president in the end. What's democratic about corruption being completely legal (lobbying)? Do you know a single post-USSR country where lobbying is legal? (Hell, how can it be legal at all? there's no distinction between lobbying and corruption, that's the same thing!)
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