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Orange Crush | 9 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 They all lie. This is known. I agree Putin is trying to manipulate the people of the West. I also believe the leaders of the West are trying to manipulate the people of the West. All *governors* make themselves obsolete through their inability to rise above their own self-interest. They eventually go one psyop too far. The US blew theirs on COVID and people are waking up, gradually then suddenly.
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Fredster | 9 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Agreed. Just make sure you remember that one is a democracy and one is a mafia dictatorship. Democracy is by no means perfect. Absolutely not. It never will be, just like you and I and every other citizen. But as Winston Churchill put it, it is the best we have. The West may have much that needs fixing, we just need to make sure we don't brake more than we fix in the process. Anyway, the way towards a better society is definatelly not giving Putin more influence
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Orange Crush | 9 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 I think democracy has left. It has been replaced with political theater, and next comes politcal repression. In the US, the legislature is derelict in its duties, the courts are growing polarized, and the administrative state gobbles all responsbilities as the elected class seek high time preference solutions in support of reelection over reason.
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Fredster | 9 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Also, given that you live in the west, you probably have more opportunities, acccess to informatian and freedom of speech than 99,9% of the people that lived before you. Never forget that