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Re:The Coming Food Catastrophe by filoleg on Thursday May 19, 2022 @05:32PM (#31440444)
> If you think "liberal democracies" still carries the same positive vibe across the world that it used to some years ago you are in for a big surprise.

I mean, I agree that it doesn't carry the same positive vibes that it used to, but it still carries much better vibes than "corrupt authoritarian semi-dictatorships".

To those who might try going "muh western propaganda" on this, save your time. I am speaking as someone who grew up in one of those "corrupt authoritarian semi-dictatorships" and eventually immigrated to a "liberal democracy".

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Re:The Coming Food Catastrophe by jiggawatts on Thursday May 19, 2022 @06:41PM (#31441110)
Yeah, the gaslighting cracks me up. I too escaped a former Soviet bloc country that Russia invaded in exactly the same way it is invading Ukraine right now.

I now live in one of those “horrible” western democracies where I can tell the Prime Minister that he’s an idiot to his face and the worst that’ll happen is that he’ll laugh at me in a dismissive way.

But these countries are “all the same”, right? Right?

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Re:The Coming Food Catastrophe by swader999 on Friday May 20, 2022 @12:30AM (#31443362)
I live in one of those two. Six million are prevented from traveling by plane in mine at the moment.
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Re:The Coming Food Catastrophe by corrral on Thursday May 19, 2022 @06:02PM (#31440728)
"Two cheers for democracy", as usual, to borrow Forster's words.

As he noted, it doesn't merit three cheers. Two, though? Maybe two.

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