• sooper_dooper_roofer [none/use name]
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    3 years ago

    Mexico and India both only partly free? Is that because of their current leaders? Did they vote themselves out of being free?

    Mexico and India are both big potentially rival countries that can escape the US umbrella, so they can never be free.

    Only tiny ultra-balkanized controllable countries can attain the honorific of being "free".

    • Tiocfaidhcaisarla [he/him, comrade/them]
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      3 years ago

      That's about what I imagined could be the case. But then there's fucking Brazil as free lol. I suppose they've been pretty firmly under the US' thumb for awhile, though I'm sure they'll update the map if Lula gets back in power

      • Old_Barbarossa [he/him,comrade/them]
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        3 years ago

        Brazil is free because the USA installed a fascist dictatorship there wich for decades mass slaugthered anyone who was even remotely left wing. Thats what real democratic liberalism is.