• yesman@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    It’s time we stop pretending that Israel is a European country living off-campus, and recognize that she’s a brutal little theocracy typical of her region.

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      3 days ago

      israel is not a theocracy, its a liberal capitalist democracy that has support of other western liberal capitalist democracies to commit genocide.Call it what it is, they are liberals.

      edit: also you just seem to be racist towards muslims.

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        One third of people living in Israel can’t vote in their election, even if they lived there all their lives, their parents lived there all their lives and their grandparents lived there all their lives.

        Israel isn’t even a Democracy.

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          Still its a democracy because the leaders are elected by people, and they rank pretty high in western democracy indices

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            Russia too has elections and the leader there is also “elected by people”.

            As for the endorsement of their “democratic” credentials by “western” nations, well, the very same ones supporting the Israeli Genocide the hardest, like Britain and the US are the ones producing the “Democracy Indices”.

            I lived in Britain and I would certainly not trust anything produced by a British Think Tank or well known and openly Neoliberal Economics weekly Magazine - they’re in their own words “opinion formers” - there to make their audience have specific opinions -which isn’t at all the same as journalists.

            More broadly and specifically for Israel, were exactly is the threshold for percentage of population not allowed to vote that disqualifies a country as a Democracy? Because 1/3 of the population not being allowed to vote is way above any other country deemed a Democracy, even the US with it’s ridiculous disqualifying of felons to vote.

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        I was about to argue with you however seeing your avatar I guess that’s futile.

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          Why are you mad at mao? liberal democracies have carried out countless genocides, whats your point even and why is it so hard to digest facts

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            I’m not mad at Mao. I just see no point arguing with a person choosing a mass murderer as their profile picture.

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              mao was a liberator, you dont know anything about him and have gulped billionaire epstienite propaganda against him. Its not that I am interested in debating someone who do not bother to engage with argument at hand. Also you are morally better than me because… you vote for an imperialist zionist political party who is probably responsible for way more deaths? heck yeah.