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    4 months ago

    The USSR, PRC, Cuba, and DPRK all hold elections and practice(ed) some form of democracy.

    Lol, alrighty we’re done here. 😆

    Edit: The only time tankies believe in voting is when they’re on lemmy hitting the downvote icon on the deep posts. 😜

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        4 months ago

        They’re sham elections. You telling me that fucking haircut in the DPRK is God emperor of North Korea because he has some mandate from the masses? He’s atop the throne because he’s the son of the last blowhard.

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            4 months ago

            George W. Bush was elected.

            When’s the last time haircut doofus had an actual election that he didn’t somehow manage 106% of the vote in?

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                Kim Jong Un did not stand for election, marking the first time that a North Korean leader did not participate as a candidate.

                He’s not even pretending anymore because he knows he’s God Emperor for life.

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                  You do realize you’ve moved the goal posts over time, right? Flawed democracy is still democracy, and if you’re going to pretend it isn’t then we have to agree that the US isn’t a democracy either.

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                    Flawed democracy is still democracy

                    Not voting at all for your leadership isn’t democracy.

                    It has nothing to do with flaws, of course countries have flaws.

                    If Trump manages to turn the country into full on dictatorship I’d acknowledge that as what it is, instead of pretending that it’s a flourishing democracy.

                    Besides all of this, China hasn’t even gotten rid of capitalism anyway. So they’re not only a dictatorship but they’re also practically a fascist one with worker aesthetics.

                    Half of the shit we buy in America is made in China by wage slaves who cannot advocate for themselves under threat of being carried off to jail or executed.