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Originally Posted by mantisG35
yah it does sound bizarre because i wanna try to make it sound like a joke, but is it really a joke?
we're pretty close to dictatorships tho. we are almost identical to pakistan and egypt. this is where we have our democratic institutions like the congress but the president does what he wants to do regardless.
the other type of dictatorships is when the "democratic" institutions established only say what the president wants. that's like Saddam, or Russia.
i dont wanna get philosophical, but i really do not believe democracy exists anywhere in the world now.
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What do you know about Russia? the bullshit that the Fox channel is feeding you? Russia with Putin is finally rising from the bog of corruption, crime, and anarchy. And there is no political repressions or curtailing of freedom of speech, no matter what the U.S. mass media wants you to believe. But, if you think that, for example, prohibition of porn movies on public channels empedes the free speech, then yes, there is no absolute freedom in Russia. Absolute freedom = anarchy, that in fact, existed during the Yeltsin time.