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    10 months ago

    Basically democracies. It is kind of difficult to consider non-democratic dictators like Putin or Kim Jong-un as representatives of some kind of “community”.

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        10 months ago

        I said this about Assad as well, but when someone is a forever ruler, it may not be as democratic as the name implies

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        South America just isn’t really too involved in international politics in general, the whole region is neutral in almost all conflicts since very few directly affect them

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          They are involved in their own politics, just like the first world only cares about what happens to the first world.

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        Of course. I am not going to defend the particular choice of countries in that picture. Where is South Korea, for example? However. Democracy is greater than just democratic election. Fascists in Germany also come to power in a free democratic election, does not make Nazi Germany a democratic country.

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      What an odd coincidence that primarily white, English-speaking countries have democracy.

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        Nothing odd about it. There are historical reasons for that. But English speaking? You do know that there are many countries in EU?

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            Even as primarily, this is false statement. And even there, there are historical reasons.

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              You are so stuck on details you entirely missed my point. Are you just going to ignore the fact that the “world” depicted here is literally just Europe and its most successful colonies?

              Yeah colonialism is a “historical reason”, but wtf are you even saying there? Being killed is “a reason” to be lying on the stairs, but explaining that by saying “he has his reasons” is so out-of-touch as to be insane.

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      yeah,

      these are the democracies that invaded Iraq/Libya to install a democracy.

      I keep having to remind myself how much good it did to the people of Iraq/Libya.