• notsosure@sh.itjust.works
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    4 days ago

    Europe is a bastion of democracy and freedom. Certainly better than the Arab world, china or nowadays USA.

    • تحريرها كلها ممكن@lemmy.ml
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      3 days ago

      If your definition of democracy and freedom is aiding and abetting genocide, war crimes, military interventions, and resource theft.

      I am in a generous mood, let’s assume non-Europeans aren’t equal people and so the crimes committed against them don’t count. How does [European-style]* democracy and freedom guarantee better outcomes? Europe has been experimenting with democracy for over 2000 years -not continuously obviously-, how are the outcomes today better than when they had Socrates poisoned?

      * I would argue that the PRC is a better democratic model than Europe with better outcomes.