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- Comment on Instead of everyone leaving NATO, could everyone else just kick the US out? 6 days ago:
No serious political scientist claims democracy is a matter of ideology or “who feels represented.” There is broad cross-national agreement on procedural criteria: competitive elections, universal suffrage, freedom of association and expression, independent courts, civilian control of the military, and peaceful transfer of power. Chinese or Russian academics may reject these standards, but that doesn’t make them arbitrary—just inconvenient for regimes that fail to meet them. There’s no need for a supranational authority to decide this any more than there is one for physics; standards emerge from scholarly consensus and empirical comparison.
Second, pointing out abuses and contradictions inside democracies doesn’t negate their democratic character. What you describe in France, Greece, Germany, and Spain are are events happening within constitutional systems, not the absence of those systems. Courts overturn referenda because constitutions limit majority rule; executives misuse emergency powers; police and media manipulate narratives. That is democracy functioning badly, not democracy not existing.
The decisive distinction is whether these actions can be challenged, exposed, reversed, and punished. In Europe, governments lose elections, courts rule against executives, journalists investigate police misconduct, and opposition parties—leftist ones included—can recover and return. In Russia, journalists, opposition politicians, and anti‑corruption activists don’t lose court cases; they lose their freedom, their lives, or very famously, fall out of windows.
That is the difference between democracy and dictatorship, comrade.
- Comment on Instead of everyone leaving NATO, could everyone else just kick the US out? 6 days ago:
Also, what’s a sea lion supposed to be
good news, i just checked and google is up today.
- Comment on Instead of everyone leaving NATO, could everyone else just kick the US out? 6 days ago:
Putin has higher approval ratings than any western leader.
you are joking, right? a dictator who falsifies elections and statistics has good “approval ratings”, oh wow, we should abandon democracy immediately and opt in for a dictatorship, must be so sweet!
- Comment on Instead of everyone leaving NATO, could everyone else just kick the US out? 6 days ago:
I doubt political scientists in China agree with, say, German political scientists’ definition of democracy. What supranational organization will decide which country’s political scientists are correct?
china is free to form an alliance with anyone they want to, as long as that entity wishes same. and the democratic countries have the same right. you are either one of the <2 brain cells people, or a sea-lion, either way, i am done with you.
- Comment on Instead of everyone leaving NATO, could everyone else just kick the US out? 6 days ago:
that would be necessary, not sufficient condition.
- Comment on Instead of everyone leaving NATO, could everyone else just kick the US out? 6 days ago:
we have the whole field of expertise for that, we call it the political science. and no one with more than 2 brain cells thinks china or russia are democratic countries.
- Comment on Instead of everyone leaving NATO, could everyone else just kick the US out? 6 days ago:
the policy shoud be “this is union of democratic countries”
- Comment on Instead of everyone leaving NATO, could everyone else just kick the US out? 6 days ago:
no, i am just being sarcastic towards stupid commies.
- Comment on Instead of everyone leaving NATO, could everyone else just kick the US out? 6 days ago:
yes. as a geniune western citizen typing with my western democratic hands, i also support dissolution of nato.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
that’s surprise. the real red flag here is finishing the irl sentence with “lol”.
- Comment on What common American habits do people find quietly annoying? 1 week ago:
and I’ll bet you have smoke detectors and fire extinguishers around just in case
“smoke detectors everywhere” is not a norm everywhere in the world in a same way it is in usa.
“americans are not aware there is a world behind their borders” is already on a list in this thread, but thank you for practical presentation 😂
- Comment on What common American habits do people find quietly annoying? 1 week ago:
but in some small handful of cases it may save their lives.
in some small number of cases you can get hit by a meteorite during that search, so be careful.
- Comment on What common American habits do people find quietly annoying? 1 week ago:
great, another american immigrant. we need to build a wall and make america pay for it.
- Comment on What common American habits do people find quietly annoying? 1 week ago:
i am not going to verify what you said, but regardless of if it is true, if your grandparents have the citizenship, you probably don’t need dna test to find that out…
- Comment on What common American habits do people find quietly annoying? 1 week ago:
that is not exclusively american thing
- Comment on I should assume I'm not going tomorrow, right? 1 week ago:
- Comment on ublock Origin can get rid of Cookie Banners 2 weeks ago:
But my original point was about not making assumptions that people who use ublock are going to be tech savvy.
but you have to join these two statements together. ok, some subset of ublock users may be technically illiterate friends or relatives of yours, but these people are unlikely to search for problems they encounter on lemmy, they will probably go to you. which makes my original statement still valid.
but we are definitely beating dead horse here.
- Comment on ublock Origin can get rid of Cookie Banners 2 weeks ago:
i get that point, but do you think these people scroll lemmy to get this advice?
i don’t do unsolicited installs of ublock or any other extension exactly for this reason, because they will run into issue unable to handle it. and then next time, you see them using google chrome instead of the firefox you have fine-tuned for them, because “something was not working” and it did work in chrome 🤷♂️
- Comment on ublock Origin can get rid of Cookie Banners 2 weeks ago:
oh. TIL.
- Comment on What happened to lem.ee? 2 weeks ago:
yeah, and sometimes they say “your parents deserved to be murdered because they owned stuff”, so… 🤷♂️
- Comment on Could you be relatively healthy if you replaced traditional carb sources with skittles and multivitamins? 2 weeks ago:
check the other article i have strategically hidden as reply to myself.
- Comment on Could you be relatively healthy if you replaced traditional carb sources with skittles and multivitamins? 2 weeks ago:
there is one that is slightly more in favor. so take your pick i guess
…harvard.edu/…/should-i-take-a-daily-multivitamin
Most studies have not shown a definitive health benefit of a daily MVM supplement for men like you. However, a recent clinical trial, published online Jan. 18, 2024, by The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, suggests taking MVMs may help delay cognitive decline in older adults.
For the trial, 573 participants were given baseline cognitive and memory tests. Half were given one standard MVM daily, and the other half took a placebo. Both groups were unaware of which one they were given. The study participants were retested again after two years. The people who took the MVM scored slightly higher on the memory and cognitive tests than those who took the placebo.
but also says:
The grocery and drugstore shelves are full of other supplements, which are heavily promoted for all kinds of health benefits, most of which have no scientific evidence to support their use. It’s always best to check with the pharmacist or doctor before taking any individual supplement.
- Comment on Could you be relatively healthy if you replaced traditional carb sources with skittles and multivitamins? 2 weeks ago:
hopkinsmedicine.org/…/is-there-really-any-benefit…
significantly deficient in iron
if you are significantly deficient in anything, then take whatever your doctor recommends. but this idea people have “oh pop a pill a to get some vitamin c and others, you will be healthy” is just marketing.
- Comment on Could you be relatively healthy if you replaced traditional carb sources with skittles and multivitamins? 2 weeks ago:
wtf. multivitamins are largely a marketing scam, most of that shit will just go out of your body anyway, you are paying for enhanced urine. and skittles? food source? really?
- Comment on ublock Origin can get rid of Cookie Banners 2 weeks ago:
i don’t think you need to school ublock users ;)
- Comment on ublock Origin can get rid of Cookie Banners 2 weeks ago:
adblock? is that the one that accepts money for whitelisting adds? :D
- Comment on ublock Origin can get rid of Cookie Banners 2 weeks ago:
no one benefits from it (at least from the part regarding cookies, which i am honestly not sure is part of gdpr)
before that, you just dealt with cookies with whatever cookie extension you preferred. now you would have to trust the site to store your rejection in a cookie, because guess what happens next time you visit the site when it doesn’t find any cookie.
and these fucking dialogs are hard to get rid off even with ublock origin.
so it is definitely the case of road to hell paved with good intentions.
- Comment on First ever photo of the curvature of the Earth : December 30, 1930 2 weeks ago:
i liked the song 🤷♂️
- Comment on What happened to lem.ee? 2 weeks ago:
i am personally simple person. i see @hexbear.net, i block, no exceptions.
- Comment on What happened to lem.ee? 2 weeks ago:
the site received a considerable amount of “vile” content of one type or another
ok, i can definitely see problem with that.
…cnn.com/…/facebook-content-moderators-kenya-ptsd…
I’m not really sure why Lemm.ee (the 3rd-biggest Lemmy instance at the time) evidently received so much of that shit compared to others.
i remember his unwillingness to defederate with basically anyone, hard to say if that played a role.
but i agree it was very well ran instance. it is a shame it ended and i hope he is happy with his other endeavors.
