• PetoniousRex@lemmy.zip
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    15 days ago

    O.K. call me super nieve but and I mean a HUGE BUT, what if it became an actual working democracy? I know it sounds absolutely coo coo insane-o-style but a democracy with rules for the almost but not quite equal capitalism we once had. A regulated capitalism that doesn’t squash indevidual , independent voice. Or smother it with Hush money.

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      14 days ago

      I’m not sure if you are being sarcastic, but democracy and capitalism are fundamentally incompatible. “Equal capitalism” is an oxymoron.

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        14 days ago

        They said “almost” and would be accurate in that sense of using the same means just applied, explosives, to reach the speed of light, as material.

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      14 days ago

      iran was a democracy prior to the SHAH which was installed by the UK/US. the islamic revolution /current regime is more or less US’s fault.

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      14 days ago

      You’re just hoping for Iran to develop a better functioning democracy than the US after it was “bombed back to the stone ages”?

      That IS super nieve.

    • Tyrq@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      14 days ago

      Yes, the US will bomb them into a functional democracy.

      I’ll have what this guy is smoking, holy shit