Britain, full democracy: Last two PMs elected by no one other than the Tory Party members, Leader of the opposition (and presumably next PM) elected to his role based on a completely fraudulent campaign that also broke campaign funding laws, previous leader of the opposition faced a coup from his own MPs only months after winning the leadership and then spent his entire tenure being smeared by them and their friends in the press
also still a monarchy. like straight up. not even like vestigial royal family, just straight up a monarchy where the king gets your shit if you die and the royal family keeps interferring and blocking shit
You’re also not allowed to speak of the queen or king or the royal family in parliament without notifying them ahead of time
Uhh yeah but the parliament that can be dissolved by the monarch at any time and is elected democratically (at least sometimes, considering recent events) says that’s okay so actually that’s democractic. That reflects the will of the populace
Lmao, can’t believe I missed this one
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You can tell that the mayo countries aren’t actually democracies because they’ve all had non-white people elected as presidents
No country with a monarchy, no matter how “constitutional parliamentary” it is, can be a democracy lmfao.
Death to ameriKKKa. Death to europe. Complete destruction of the Western Entity.
Europe alone getting a zoom in scope where other areas that are as dense with nations and therefore hard to read at this scale not getting one, while simultaneously just straight up blocking out other countries, is all you need to know about this map
Look at how they avoid calling attention to Israel, actively conducting a genocide as we speak, being colored green.
Like, there’s multiple African countries that just aren’t labelled.
I think the funniest part is some of them have scores, but no names. Far more important to know it’s bad than what it even is
Literally “We went down to the pub and here’s what five regulars told us” the survey.
At least a few of those 60 questions seem to be “how often do you vote with the US at UN assemblies” because that’s the only way some of these scores make sense
this has been a real international moment
Germany 8.8 when they had the same chancellor for 16 years in Angela Merkel lol. And then Evo Morales tries the same thing, and Bolivia gets a 4.5.
Westerners when Angela Merkel stays for 16 years:
Westerners when Evo Morales wants to stay for 16 years:
the german liberal believes both that term limits in the US are democratic, that they are not in germany and also they’re more hardline about their constititution being perfect than the most fundamentalist republicans as per change
I mean it gets changed all the time but it’s like in the boring bits about how the state functions so who cares
Germany 8.8
Fuck me. No. It cannot be a dogwhistle. I’m losing my mind.
you are, but in this case your madness reveals a deeper truth
Germany is like 3 election terms away from being a CDU one party state and even then two of those terms are basically the social democracts doing christian democrat stuff
Which is even funnier when you realize there’s no like legal / constitutional reason for there to not be a plurality government that gets like weed legalized or whatever (I think that’s been politically viable for about 20 years at this point), it’s just the underlying assumption is if you don’t have a massive 50%+ coalition the country will go under, like Weimar, due to infighting. It’s basically placing some notion of “stability” over everything else. Which is currently in it’s funniest phase as the govering coalition is the greens, the libertarians and the rightest-wing of the social democrats who get fucking nothing done due to infighting.
Hence, I propose that germany is a one party state ruled by the party of “stability”, which is every party
it’s just the underlying assumption is if you don’t have a massive 50%+ coalition the country will go under, like Weimar, due to infighting
Even funnier that the country might really go under (again) because they started a war with Russia (again) and are in the process of losing because of insane and totally unrealistic assumptions about Russia (again)
Saudi Arabia, an absolute monarchy with no legislative body, is more democratic than China or Iran.
It’s like they’re not even trying
saudi arabia doesn’t even pretend to be a democracy lol they’re one of like three countries in the world today that doesn’t claim to be democratic
Seriously, saudi arabia and like brunei i guess should be the 0.0 reference point
Citations Needed Episode 25: The Banality of CIA-Curated Definitions of ‘Democracy’
On today’s episode, we discuss the limits of democracy rankings, the oft-cited “Polity IV” metric devised by the CIA-funded Center for Systemic Peace, and more
Isn’t Ukraine the place that has not only suspended elections but also banned political parties and seized media to become apparatus of the figuredhead of the state?
Like cmon lol
melanin index
Highest ranked country of all is a monarchy…
democracy numbers, how do they work?
i think this is just measuring how easy capital has it in the given country. you know, democracy in the sense that money votes.
Bourgeoisie democracy numbers ig
Democracy is when the bourgeoisie has full control over the political system but pretend they don’t by holding sham elections every few years apparently.
How is Portugal less of a democracy than Spain??
Why is Paraguay, Mexico, Peru and Equador classified as Hybrid Regime? Is it because Paraguay and Mexico have been electing the same party for 70 years? Why is South Africa with 7.05 and fucking Japan with 8.33!? I mean, they do elect other parties sometimes so shouldn’t it be a Flawed Democracy then?
Chile: 8.22
lol, the same country that privatized water and social security, literally pays nothing if you’re old and retired.
Mexico elected AMLO that’s why they dropped their “democracy” score.
Tell me how Greece has been “democratizing” despite a deterioration in press freedom and the goverment spying on journalists and opposition leaders.
SYRIZA lost power, that is essentially all it took