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[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 37 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (13 children)

From the latest Perceptions of Democracy index, from NIRA Data:

Ukrainians are among the most skeptical of the democratic processes in their country. Meanwhile, even a country as hotly contested as Venezuela, faith in elections is skyrocketing. And this is gathered by a western org run by a NATO official.

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[–] DependentFeature3028@lemmy.world 19 points 1 month ago (28 children)

Oh boy the reddit imperialists are angry with this one

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[–] sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 18 points 1 month ago

Canceling elections is totally fine if its guys we like

[–] Tabitha@hexbear.net 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I don't see any blue states going along with any potential attempts by Trump to cancel the election. There is literally nobody who is going to invade mainland USA in the next 3 years. It's just not in the cards. In Ukraine, women my age notice that 10% of their dating pool is gone (dead, moved abroad, missing?). The average US citizen is going to experience whatever obvious false flag, just something less impactful than 2020s "wearing masks", even if that's literally a drone strike from Latin America, and they're going to cancel elections over it?

[–] TiredTiger@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 month ago

I still think their play is that if Trump is succeeded by another Republican or if Trump himself becomes too unpopular, they coup him, and we wind up with a military junta. The libs would be so busy applauding their 'saviors' that they wouldn't even notice their rights being taken away until it's too late. I think the capitalists are tired of democracy, and want to be able to drop the pretenses without ceding control.

[–] astar26@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Just for factual correctness (don't actually care about your opinion) - no Israeli election was cancelled. Bibi himself lost an election in 2020.

[–] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Ukraine being less democratic than Israel is not the gotcha its supporters expected

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[–] thorhop@sopuli.xyz 8 points 1 month ago (19 children)

What part of martial law do you not understand?

A country being invaded can be and will be overthrown if possible. In fact, it's been done many times in European imperialist history.

That's why the clause exists, even before democracy was normalized in Europe. Just find someone else in line for procession and install a puppet prince.

It's even been abused. Some speculate that Trump would trigger martial law to stay in office - or even Netenyahu himself clinging to power.

In the end you don't want a captured government. That's also historically been really bad.

[–] Saymaz@lemmygrad.ml 15 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Ukraine already has a captured government. 😜

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