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Two parties is bad enough. I will never, ever trust a one-party government. That's like — what if conspiracy theories, but they are just public policy? Frankly not unlike our government currently, but I'd prefer more parties than fewer.
Two wings of the same bird of prey, unfortunately.
Democracy is broken now. It used to work but whatever it has evolved into now doesn't. Both sides don't work together for the better. How long does anything take to do? It is insane and when one side gets in they just cancel everything the other side did its pathetic.
That's mostly just Trump. He's a complete moron, and tbh we will probably spend a decade or two undoing the stupid shit he has done — if we can. A lot of this bullshit we are stuck with until there is a big shakeup of the Supreme Court.
Absent Trump, however, mostly the efforts of both sides carry forward. Also, the world is a plate spinning on top of a pole. At any given moment, it threatens to topple, and we need parties to adjust the axis so everything keeps spinning. If it gets yanked in one direction, the wobble gets really bad and we risk the plate falling. One party really only pulls in one direction. Two parties really only pull back and forth. Multiple parties would do a much better job of finding the center where everything keeps spinning smoothly.
It depends on the party. Being able to pick from of a dozen different parties of capital is no different from picking from a dozen brands of peanut butter that came out of the same factory.
No single party won't eventually turn into a mess. Authoritarianism is never going to end well for the population.
Depends on how democratic the mechanisms of the party is. Cuba's party has only become more democratic as time has gone on, and resulted in better outcomes for the people and enshrining gay rights in a constitutional referendum, which passed with 90%+ in favor. China's party has certainly became more democratic than in the 2000s when politicians were openly controlled by business.
Yea when one of the "became more democratic" also involve persecution and incarceration of ethnic groups, it has failed. Again, authoritarianism doesn't work. You may have stints where it seems okay from the outside but it won't end in the favor of the people.
No system that challenges Western hegemony could ever "work" so long as your perspective is grounded in its propaganda.
Say whatever you want about the west, it doesn't automatically make authoritarianism good or better.
It's less about how good/bad the West is and more about your perspective being influenced by the West's media sphere.
For most Western leftists, the only kind of revolution or movement they support are failed ones. The moment a movement actually succeeds and starts asserting control of it's own resources, you can count on hearing all about its worst aspects, if not outright fabrications, while the positive things get minimized, ignored, or "but at what cost" 'd. On top of this is the fact that some people have some perfect rosy ideal that could never exist because it fails to account for real world problems with no easy answer that you'd have to contend with in practice.
The result is a completely backwards analysis where failures are idolized and successes are seen as cautionary tales. Y'all also seem to think you're the first people in all of history to ever have the idea of "freedom good" occur to them. Which I mean, if you don't, and your approach works, then what do you have to show for it?
Evil authoritarian China lifted 800 billion people out of extreme poverty over the last 40 years. It has gone from one of the poorest countries on earth to one of the most powerful, it has established an alternative economic sphere which gives non-aligned countries choices on who to deal with (while often forgiving the debts of poor countries). But some sources in the West say they persecute minorities, and do you actually apply an ounce of skepticism to those claims? Do you critically evaluate the pros and cons and come to a nuanced, realistic evaluation of the country? Or do you just knee-jerk accept it and condemn them, wholly and without question?
It sounds like you are concentrating too much on comparing to the west and you need to look individually at the countries. The odd obsession with bringing up the west non stop is unnecessary.
Literally just spent that entire comment explaining that I'm not "comparing to the West," and the legitimate reasons I have for bringing it up. It's abundantly clear you didn't read any of it.
You're just doing the equivalent of responding to anything I say with, "The DOW is over 50,000."
Yeah I saw you said that but then you went on to compare. As you did all the previous posts. You don't get to just say I'm not doing this and then do it and think that is illogical answer. So you do you and keep supporting authoritarianism for some reason?
Quote the part where you think I'm comparing, because I have absolutely no idea what you're talking about.
You don't get to make shit up and claim I did something I didn't do.
More evidence you didn't read a word of my comment.
Lol just read your post again dude. You don't make it past the first sentence. Just stop, the far majority of people don't want your shitty authoritarianism. We don't want fascism, we don't want authoritarianism.
That's not in any way a comparison, liar.
It's not authoritarianism you have a problem with, it's critical thinking and actually challenging power that you dislike.
Pretty rich of you to accuse me of creating a strawman after your repeated lies that I was making a comparison with the West.
And that might mean something to me if you had the honesty and intellectual capacity to engage with anything I said.
People often call stuff they don't understand stupid. Says more about you than me tbh.
Lmao, I don't want to hear shit about "good faith" from someone who very blatantly lied about what I said.
I just wish there was a single one of you out there who was capable of engaging with any of the points I raised, honestly and in good faith. But all you know how to do is trade snipes. So congrats, you've taken what could've been a good faith, intelligent conversation and successfully brought it down to your level, by lying.
Anyone intellectually honest will eventually have to ask themselves the questions I raised, and either they will provide me with answers I couldn't find, or they will have to come around to my point of view. But there's no point wasting time on liars like you who don't care at all about what's actually true.
Jesus you just can't stop with random accusations lol. You think anyone else is still reading all this? Internet buddies? What are you, 15?
I recommend you go back and read your own lies. People might want to have a conversation with you if you don't just throw a bunch of assumptions at them. It's not good faith
So how long have you been a Nazi?
I've never been a Nazi, regardless of whatever you have to tell yourself to cover for the fact that you don't have any coherent beliefs.
That sounds about reich
Yes, you are the authoritarian one. Whew. Glad we finally came to an agreement!
Again, you already admitted to trolling.
Keep licking Trump's boots, MAGA fascist.
Hahaha you are the authoritarian, why would I be a trumper? You really are not smart. Also a nazi.
You're the one that supports authoritarianism, so you'd be the one likely to be maga. Nazi.
I'm not remotely dishonest. I just throw shit back in people's faces when they throw it at me.
Just think - all this time you've wasted, we could've been having an actual discussion. But you just had to go and lie. Because lying is all you know how to do.