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Re:HK media erase their archives amid rising arrests by GordonS on Wednesday June 30, 2021 @04:22AM (#27686238)
> The west has been trying to spread liberal democracy for over the past 100 years. It is successful in some places, but not in others.

I think success largely depends on how democracy arrives - we've seen time and time again that forcing it upon a country (whether by military force or the more skullduggerous, CIA kind of force) is doomed to failure. I believe it needs to come naturally, slowly, over time.

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Re:HK media erase their archives amid rising arrests by wolverine876 on Wednesday June 30, 2021 @12:05PM (#27690192)
It's hard to deliver democracy and freedom by oppressive means; the means undermine the ends.

However, it's also a common error of the privileged to consign the suffering to wait for a slow, gradual process that results in their entire lives passing by, and those of their children and grandchildren, etc.

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