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Comment by clot27

2 days ago

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We've banned this account for using the site primarily for political battle and flamewar comments. Not allowed here, regardless of which views you favor or disfavor.

It looks like your account didn't use to do this, if I look far back enough in the history. If you don't want to be banned, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and give us reason to believe that you'll stick to the rules in the future. They're here: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

> Democracy wont survive in iran until the govt want their oil to be depleted by western war hungry demons

Yet somehow Brazil, Mexico, India and hosts of other non-European-origin-majority resource-rich democracies exist.

That said, maybe the limiting factor on democracy is agency. If a culture blames outside forces for all of its woes, there is nothing it can–within that worldview–do to self improve. So it won't. If, on the other hand, it separates the factors it can control from those it can't (and nobody can control all of the factors, that's just reality), it has a hope.