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Re:Indian Supreme Court orders inquiry into state’s use of P... by tw600040 on Wednesday October 27, 2021 @12:38PM (#29015648)
EXACTLY. You can't just label any government you don't like as undemocratic or authoritarian randomly. If elections were held and when there were no electoral fraud and people voted for this Government, it doesn't just magically become undemocratic just because you don't like it.
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Re:Indian Supreme Court orders inquiry into state’s use of P... by ridiculous_leke on Wednesday October 27, 2021 @01:45PM (#29016547)
Calling India undemocratic is definitely a stretch. But the current government is definitely more authoritarian. Considering the huge lack of respect to law and order in India, that's fair to a certain extent. Here, in the US, anti-vaxxers practically have a free reign in certain places. Any attempt to coerce them into vaccination is considered as "authoritarian".
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