I Saw Democracy Die in Russia

Re:I Saw Democracy Die in Russia by senkora on Monday March 03, 2025 @12:30PM (#43244322)

I encourage people to read the post. Whether or not Russia was ever a democracy in recent times, the author draws clear, specific parallels to the erosion of checks and balances that are interesting and informative.

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Re:I Saw Democracy Die in Russia by dpc_01234 on Monday March 03, 2025 @01:34PM (#43245103)

This post is just uneducated propaganda?

> In that climate, people accepted extreme countermeasures far more readily.

Duuuh. Anyone remembers 9/11? "Patriot" Act? TSA? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM ? Torture https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enhanced_interrogation_techniq... ? Dronestrikes killing citizens? Everything else that Wikileaks and Snowden exposed?

That didn't concern anyone?

And now that, as silly and annoying and full of stupid ideas as he is, the president actually does NOT want perpetual war, talks about shrinking military, cuts on the federal unelected beurocracy, now, you're going to talk about "saving democracy"?

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Re:I Saw Democracy Die in Russia by beretguy on Monday March 03, 2025 @01:49PM (#43245273)

Bless your heart.

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Re:I Saw Democracy Die in Russia by userlander on Monday March 03, 2025 @08:42PM (#43249176)

He is in the echo chamber. He can't hear us anymore.

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