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Seeing a lot of "Both sides" comments again so need to remind y'all (slrpnk.net)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Yeah I have no disagreement with what you're saying. This was also true with Russia, where Navalny was hardly left wing. I think it's moreso the idea of a democratic system versus dictatorship.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

This was also true with Russia, where Navalny was hardly left wing.

Even the so-called Communist Party of Russia is a vestigial remnant. That is as much a result of the socio-economic rewiring of the nation after Yeltsin's coup as any functional dictatorship. People are saturated in Putin-friendly right-wing media in Russia not unlike how Americans have been surrounded by ultra-orthodox conservative news media.

What's the difference between a democracy and a dictatorship in a nation where mass media and big business are all beholden to a handful of oligarchs?