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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

😂 You know who defines the metrics for democracy indexes? Liberals who wouldn’t know democracy if it bit them in the ass. People who believe in bourgeois democracy.

Economist Intelligence Unit is by venerable rag of the bourgeoisie, The Economist. Karl Marx himself called it, “the tribune of the aristocracy of finance.”

The US score is 7.8, even though it is not a democracy and never was.

Most in China Call Their Nation A Democracy, Most in U.S. Say America Isn't