• Gucci_Minh [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    22 hours ago

    The purpose of a system is what it does. You can say it’s freedom and democracy all you want but all I’ve seen out of it is genocide, human trafficking, and money laundering regardless of which of your capitalist parties is in charge.

    • hector@lemmy.today
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      22 hours ago

      Not the point. Describing the system of government as being better does not endorse everything that government has done, not the least as it has become the superpower.

      Western style governments elect leaders, they have free press, they can criticize their leaders, and so forth. Eastern governments have never had that tradition. Might makes right, you criticize the leader you are in trouble, no honest media exists, and they do not elect leaders in any honest way.