• lennybird@lemmy.world
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        8 months ago

        Funny that (a) one doesn’t recognize both espouse to be democracies, and (b) who said anything about right-wing nationalists requiring dictatorships? 🤡🧐

        … Try again, maybe?

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        8 months ago

        Both Russians and Israelis believe theyre doing the right thing, while slaughtering innocents en masse.

        If you actually were right, it would mean that Russians are more redeemable than Israelis, because if Israel is a democracy, then the majority are genocidal maniacs, as opposed to being a subjects to a genocidal government.

        But this comment isn’t for you, as you’re one of the brainwashed people and would never ever admit any flaw with your brainwasher.

        • What a ridiculous hot take. There’s a very good chance Bibi gets voted out. Same for Putin?

          Russians are the aggressors. Israel is defending itself from literal terrorists that have spent decades launching tens of thousands of rocket attacks, suicide bombings, and now mass shootings.

          Russians literally target civilians indiscriminately without even any pretext of a valid military target. Is there a single example that you can point to of the Russian military warning Ukrainians before bombing civilians?

          Israel actually is a democracy. Saying otherwise makes you indistinguishable from a flat earther.

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            Israel is the aggressor too, violently colonizing and ethnically cleansing the local population. The Palestinians are just defending themselves against their own destruction. But it’s an unfair fight, because they only have small make-shift rockets against Israel with a big army and getting billions from the biggest empire in the world.

            The fact that Israel has a democracy is of no concern to the civilians in Gaza being bombed and starved to death. In fact, it makes it worse: Russians can’t vote out their government, but Israelis can.

            • Blah blah blah. I did not invent political science and the definition of democracy. Stop spamming me the same four links to half truths and spin, which per usual are posted to demonize Israel as a whole, not to asserting anything having to do with the fact of whether it is a democracy, and write a letter to I don’t know a college of political science. I’m sure they will take your opinion very seriously.

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              Unfortunately, countries with elections in which there is a legally binding demographic imbalance are still considered democracies.

              Which is why even Switzerland, which did not allow women to vote until 1971, was still considered a democracy.

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          8 months ago

          If you actually were right, it would mean that Russians are more redeemable than Israelis, because if Israel is a democracy, then the majority are genocidal maniacs, as opposed to being a subjects to a genocidal government.

          I live in Russia, so very subjective, but this is true. There’s no support, but there’s nothing more to say, it all has been discussed 2 years ago.

          Israelis I mostly meet on the Web, so it would seem uncertain due to all the bots and loud morons, but sadly my relatives there seem to be in denial of reality too.

          EDIT: I remember somebody saying in my childhood that Zhirinovsky etc are useful to show how this kind of (genocidal/jingoist/anti-intellectualist/…) politicians in a democracy looks as opposed to power gained non-democratically.