authoritarian and democracy are not mutually exclusive concepts. I think ignoring the details of both aspects in favor of thought terminating clichés is counterproductive, assuming the goal is to actually understand the intricacies of these societies instead of a black and white understanding.
You can either investigate yourself or lean into your preconceived biases, if you're choosing the latter that's your choice.
You clearly don't want to have an actual discussion that includes those nuances that take into account the geopolitics of global capitalism and material conditions, so let's just agree to disagree or something
It's a massive simplification that removes all context of each of those countries anti-colonialist and anti-imperialist histories, all of which is incredibly important to understanding their current political organization and the scope that democracy holds in each.
That's their version of Democratic Republic represention within the party, shaped by the material conditions of both the before-mentioned genocidal bombing campaign and the continued attempts of outside forces to collapse the state via CIA Activities and Sanctions designed to starve and isolate the entire country.
You should check out the Blowback podcast if you're interested in The Korea War and how those events shaped Present-day North and South Korea
North Korea is basically if a trauma victim was a country, shellshocked after a genocidal bombing campaign. Blowback Season 4 goes into crazy detail about the war. That's what caused them to pioneer the tunnel technology we saw in Vietnam and also Gaza today.
Well you ignored 3 separate articles detailing how the BBC's complicity in Genocide, saying that you'd only consider academic articles in particular. Then once I provided 2 academic articles on the subject in addition to the others, no response. It comes off like you're more interested in bias confirmation than in investigation
As the historian Ronald Aronson pointed out, even if Margolin did not cite the figure of one million victims of Vietnamese Communism invented by Courtois in the introduction, at no point in his chapter on Communism in Asia did he mention that the US intervention in Vietnam had cost, according to some estimates, up to three million lives.
Thankfully I don't see it as much on here as much as it used to be around the peak of the election, where I'd see (self proclaimed) liberals ignoring the reality and instead argue that his hands were tied or that he's totally working tirelessly for a ceasefire or that it was irrelevant to winning the race. I still see establishment Dems holding this view, especially during the controversy of the DNC refusing to release the autopsy
authoritarian and democracy are not mutually exclusive concepts. I think ignoring the details of both aspects in favor of thought terminating clichés is counterproductive, assuming the goal is to actually understand the intricacies of these societies instead of a black and white understanding.
You can either investigate yourself or lean into your preconceived biases, if you're choosing the latter that's your choice.
You clearly don't want to have an actual discussion that includes those nuances that take into account the geopolitics of global capitalism and material conditions, so let's just agree to disagree or something
It's a massive simplification that removes all context of each of those countries anti-colonialist and anti-imperialist histories, all of which is incredibly important to understanding their current political organization and the scope that democracy holds in each.
Chris Rabb is so goated, from policy to messaging discipline. Worth donating to, as with Abdul and Nixon, if you can spare imo
You're missing the point..
That's their version of Democratic Republic represention within the party, shaped by the material conditions of both the before-mentioned genocidal bombing campaign and the continued attempts of outside forces to collapse the state via CIA Activities and Sanctions designed to starve and isolate the entire country.
You should check out the Blowback podcast if you're interested in The Korea War and how those events shaped Present-day North and South Korea
Voting is incredibly minimal at best but has marginally expanded since 2023 with some primaries.
North Korea is basically if a trauma victim was a country, shellshocked after a genocidal bombing campaign. Blowback Season 4 goes into crazy detail about the war. That's what caused them to pioneer the tunnel technology we saw in Vietnam and also Gaza today.
Unfortunately nuance has no place here, nor does the anti-colonialist context or distinction between party and governance.
Leaving cats to find their own game instead of feeding them farmed meat is significantly worse for the local population (of birds in particular)
Cats are anarcho-monarchists (if more than one cat present)
That's as crazy as attacking Mamdani for being a white supremacist.. No way to take those people seriously
Not to mention the oil CEOs are directly responsible for delaying and inhibiting the transition to green energy
no, have you??
no he didn't
Well you ignored 3 separate articles detailing how the BBC's complicity in Genocide, saying that you'd only consider academic articles in particular. Then once I provided 2 academic articles on the subject in addition to the others, no response. It comes off like you're more interested in bias confirmation than in investigation
But have you considered scary black book of communism?
It would appear you'd rather disregard sources that detail the BBC's complicity in Genocide rather than engage with the evidence
but here's a couple more for good measure
Habitual media: interrogating Western legacy media’s complicity in the epistemic ‘war’ against Palestinians
Witnessing undone: silence, noise and the enabling of genocide in Gaza
Here's a few
How the BBC obscures UK complicity in Gaza genocide
BBC Failed to Name Israel As Perpetrator in Half of Civilian Casualty Reports, Data Shows
How the UK Media Became Complicit in the Gaza Genocide
Thankfully I don't see it as much on here as much as it used to be around the peak of the election, where I'd see (self proclaimed) liberals ignoring the reality and instead argue that his hands were tied or that he's totally working tirelessly for a ceasefire or that it was irrelevant to winning the race. I still see establishment Dems holding this view, especially during the controversy of the DNC refusing to release the autopsy