Re:Iraq blocks Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp, and Instagram, s...
by ivalm on Wednesday October 02, 2019 @07:01PM
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Iraq is an example of country with government that "Americans and their rich owner-class" definitely didn't want. It's democratic in the actual sense of the word:
-- It's a government that got majority of the vote.
This has little to do with corruption/accountability, iraqis tend to vote along sectarian lines. There are more shia, they are better organized, they win.
Re:Iraq blocks Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp, and Instagram, s...
by astronautjones on Wednesday October 02, 2019 @07:34PM
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the shia are also protesting fwiw
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/10/iraqi-police-open-fir...
- to the people, it means a government that is less corrupt and more accountable to do the people's work; a semi-meritocracy.
- in diplomatic circles, it means whatever Americans and their rich owner-class want. There aren't very many democratic countries allowed; they're usually small and don't have a resource curse.