• slate@sh.itjust.works
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    5 months ago
    1. Manipulating tens/hundreds of millions of people into voting for something is not easy
    2. Some of these people weren’t exactly democratically elected
        • takeda@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          5 months ago

          There was no democracy in Russia at any point in time. Putin was placed in charge to restore USSR, and he didn’t win by chance.

          North Korea also has elections, so does Iran, Belarus, the difference is that we always know who will win.

          • NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io
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            I’m not sure where you got that from, but no, Putin won three* free and fair elections, one as PM and two as president.

            *My memory is iffy so it could be that his reelection as president wasn’t a fair election, but the preceding two were.

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              one as PM and two as president

              The reason he flipped between PM and president was that the Russian constitution prohibited consecutive terms in either position, so he alternated with his peg-boy Medvedev while remaining the real supreme power.

        • theUwUhugger@lemmy.world
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          5 months ago

          Simply untrue?

          The us system is so wildly undemocratic with its two party, first past the post, electoral college that definitionally it cannot be considered a democracy!

          We may never know what happen and happened in russia! Boris Yeltsin, the president before Putin, literally disappeared for weeks then suddenly reappeared next to Putin to hold speeches… And you are telling me that Putin was elected democratically for the first round?

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            The us system is so wildly undemocratic with its two party, first past the post, electoral college that definitionally it cannot be considered a democracy!

            We can get into the philosophy of it, but Trump was as democratically elected as any other president in US history.

            And you are telling me that Putin was elected democratically for the first round?

            Until you can provide evidence to the contrary, yes.

        • theUwUhugger@lemmy.world
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          Lets just do a lil recap for funsies! Someone blamed people for their leaders, I pointed out that two of the 3 was not democratically elected, and just as a cherry the third one will not be democratically elected again

          And you ask why that matters… Just take a guess buddy

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            5 months ago

            Yes people are responsible for not opposing their war criminals whatever they are democratically elected or not. Your statement is completely irrelevant

    • _‌_反いじめ戦隊@ani.social
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      1. Letting these genociders continue their conquests is power being gifted.
      2. There is nothing preventing civilians from taking those powers back.
      3. How many more old despots do civilians want to uphold?