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Re:5G: The outsourced elephant in the room by mr_toad on Saturday April 17, 2021 @09:50PM (#26849114)
> Russia is ostensibly a democracy, albeit one where the leadership is somewhat predetermined a very small minority. USA is a democracy albeit one where the leadership is somewhat representing the interests of a very small minority.

The US electoral system may have it’s flaws, but to compare it to Russia is absurd.

How many opposition leaders has the US government tried to murder recently?

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Re:5G: The outsourced elephant in the room by buran77 on Sunday April 18, 2021 @05:30PM (#26856582)
> but to compare it to Russia is absurd

The statement was clearly about the relationship each country has with democracy, comparing not to each other but to what democracy should be. There's value in evaluating things against what they should be, not against an arbitrarily worse thing. It's the only way to see the flaws and look to improve.

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