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[–] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

With a First Past The Post representative allocation system and no Constitution (so, for example, the current government which got a bit over 30% of the votes cast has over 50% of MPs and thus can make or change ANY law they want in any way they want since nothing is limited by a Constitution that can only be changed with much more than a simple 50%+1 majority), a head of state who gets their position by inheriting it and an unelected second parliamentary chamber, the UK has never been a Democracy.

Oh, they harp on and on about how they're "The oldest Democracy in the World", which is exactly the kind of compensation you would expect when a certain quality isn't actually true, same as when some people go around claiming they're beautiful, charming or intelligent - if you have it you don't need worry about convincing others that you do.

I've lived in a couple of countries in Europe, including over a decade in Britain, and that country is mainly bullshit (very poshly and elegantly done - just check the way the BBC uses Manufacturing Consent techniques to promote Israel or their constant spinning of news about foreign affairs into "we're much better than them" Nationalism) and the LEAST democratic of all was Britain.

[–] SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 17 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Okay Europe, show us Americans how it's done. Fix this shit.

[–] EvasiveSpecies@lemmy.world 14 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Europe is pretty fucked too. MAGA inspired political parties (many, if not all, sponsored by tge same people who support MAGA) with the same idiots or evil people you guys have in America in several countries... the future's unfortunately looking VERY bleak. :/

[–] Pandasdontfly@anarchist.nexus 6 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

Basically the world is fucked. Its bad only going to get worse I can only assume this is the start of a trend that is going to take a 80+ years to run its course... Fuck me

[–] quarkquasar@lemmy.world 3 points 3 hours ago

Unless there's a pandemic of intelligence out of nowhere, it's probably the end of the modern world in some soon-ish timeframe.

Although we are going through an extinction event, and I suppose if it's one severe enough to kill anything over a certain size, humans will probably go along with it.

[–] multifariace@lemmy.world 2 points 4 hours ago
[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 23 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

propaganda against lgbtq+ always increase when there is internal economic turmoil CAUSED BY THE same politicians railing on anti-lgbtq+ people as a distraction or START some nonsensical war or sabre rattlling.

[–] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 7 hours ago

That shit has been painfully visible in the US for over a decade: the Political "Fight" between the two parties of the Power Duopoly in highly rigged voting systems (like First Past The Post) naturally moves to being just the Moral plane and away from all the other things that shape people's Freedom and Happiness (most notably anything controlled by Money) as those parties become thoroughly corrupted (when politicians tell you "Greed is Good", they definitelly also mean it for they themselves) thus having pretty much the same policies in all fields where they can make some "greateful friends" who will shower them with their "gratitude", which leaves Moral as the only field where they can play politics to see whose next with their snouts in the trough.

IMHO in this shit Britain runs maybe 1 to 2 decades behind the US and the rest of Europe runs maybe 1 to 2 decades behind Britain.

[–] CyroSignal@lemmy.world 9 points 8 hours ago

This isn't normal, we can feel the rise of Reform UK...

[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 6 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Just a reminder that, in politics, nothing is inevitable and nothing is permanent.

[–] Wataba@sh.itjust.works 5 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

It's permanent for the people irrecoverably scarred/maimed/killed by these hostile policies.

[–] EvasiveSpecies@lemmy.world 4 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

1930s Germany wasn't permanent either... unless you opposed the Nazis or were anything other than able-bodied, able-minded, white, not jewish or any other minority s,stematically tortured or killed. And people don't learn from history because most survivors are those who hadn't been persecuted.

[–] Witchfire@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

As a trans immigrant who fled the US, this is a pattern I've been noticing a LOT. Specifically people downplaying the effects just because it doesn't affect them directly. As they say, the road to fascism is paved with people telling you you're overreacting

(Especially when the president signs an executive order telling trans people "we will find you and we will kill you")

Edit: case in point, look at the negative comments under this post

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