Ireland, Wales, Cornwall and Scotland should be granted full independence and England should be divided up in several smaller countries all under a peacekeeping force.

  • Lester_Peterson [he/him]
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    4 months ago

    no term limits

    no constitution, through Parliament the ruling regime can overrule the judiciary at will and ignore human rights treaties

    antidemocratic electoral system where a party winning 1/3rd of the vote gets 2/3rds of seats

    state media spewing hatred towards refugees and trans people, inciting violent riots

    Chairman Xi, my people yearn for freedom

    • Xavienth@lemmygrad.ml
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      4 months ago

      Putting aside that bourgeois democracies are not democracies, term limits are the weirdest thing. If the people want someone to be leader, they should be leader. They get easily cast aside when somebody who really wants the reins of power gets it, so it's not an impediment to that. The only thing it does is stem radical change from taking charge for too long. It's a conservative concept.

      • PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml
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        4 months ago

        Term limits were invented by ancient Greeks and Romans for the purpose of reducing infighting for the offices among the members of ruling class. Note how bourgeois historians are presenting ancient Athens in V century BCE as the classic example of democracy, while even if we ignore how classist that democracy was, it was explicitly a period when one person (Pericles) basically ruled as informal dictator and turned Delian League into actual empire.