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[–] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca -2 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

You guys seem to blissfully ignore the fact that democracies are built one bombing at a time.

[–] sturmblast@lemmy.world 5 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

You seem to ignore how democracies actually work.

[–] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 0 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

I just explained it to you. Just look at the Middle East for example after example of successful democracies built by bombs, not votes.

[–] Doomsider@lemmy.world 4 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Democracy existed before bombs.

[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 2 points 19 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Doomsider@lemmy.world 2 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (1 children)

I am not sure about that, and they do have a point about modern "democracy" spread by the barrel of a gun. The US is quite found of overthrowing supposedly anti-democratic governments and installing dictators (see Iran and most of South America). This is obviously not democracy, but the Neo liberals/cons will claim that is what they are doing.

I was just pointing out that ancient democracies did exist before the perversion that we see before us today. Perhaps I am just idealizing societies like ancient Greece though.

[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 2 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

Their comment on the middle east is definitely sarcastic. There are no functioning democracies in the middle east that resulted from a US bombing campaign, except maybe Iraq, though I don't think they'll keep it to maturity.

[–] Doomsider@lemmy.world 1 points 18 hours ago

That makes sense. Thanks.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 8 hours ago

They didn't say US bombing, they said bombing