Israel - "Flawed" "Democracy" where majority of the poeple don't have citizenship or rights.
These people would call Apartheid South Africa a "democracy".
Also India being in the green is hilarious.
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These people would call Apartheid South Africa a "democracy".
I think they literally actually did thjs.
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How is fucking Saudi Arabia not the darkest red unless you are blatantly giving them bonus points for being a western ally. SA is about as autocratic as you get.
"Just because it is a literal monarchy where no one votes doesn't mean they can't support Western Democratic Values ®" the person who made this map probably.
Also Egypt
Egypts democractically elected dictatorship is more democractic than China or Cuba. Okay right sure.
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Kinda. They gave high scores to those countries in the global south that are more in line with the West. India has almost the same score as the US for example.
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Its literally a map of how much economic influence the US has over other countries
But they made up numbers -- with decimals! -- so it's official
Mexico changes from the neolib party that used to ruled the for 70 years via corruption and oppression to a 5/10 socdem party
drops from flawed democracy to hybrid regime
Lets goo 
melanin index
Ukraine banned a Zelenskillion political parties in the time since the invasion lmao, with the exact reasoning of foreign/enemy influence that is deemed unacceptable for all the socialist "regimes"
Well yeah. Russian influence is bad because its a bad country, so its ok for Ukraine to ban pro-Russian parties.
But the west are the good guys! So if a bad country fights western influence thats evil!
Democracy is when there fewer political parties to choose from, and the more parties you ban, the more democratic it is
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Germany 8.8 when they had the same chancellor for 16 years in Angela Merkel lol. And then Evo Morales tries the same thing, and Bolivia gets a 4.5.
Westerners when Angela Merkel stays for 16 years: 
Westerners when Evo Morales wants to stay for 16 years: 
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Germany is like 3 election terms away from being a CDU one party state and even then two of those terms are basically the social democracts doing christian democrat stuff
Which is even funnier when you realize there's no like legal / constitutional reason for there to not be a plurality government that gets like weed legalized or whatever (I think that's been politically viable for about 20 years at this point), it's just the underlying assumption is if you don't have a massive 50%+ coalition the country will go under, like Weimar, due to infighting. It's basically placing some notion of "stability" over everything else. Which is currently in it's funniest phase as the govering coalition is the greens, the libertarians and the rightest-wing of the social democrats who get fucking nothing done due to infighting.
Hence, I propose that germany is a one party state ruled by the party of "stability", which is every party
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Britain, full democracy: Last two PMs elected by no one other than the Tory Party members, Leader of the opposition (and presumably next PM) elected to his role based on a completely fraudulent campaign that also broke campaign funding laws, previous leader of the opposition faced a coup from his own MPs only months after winning the leadership and then spent his entire tenure being smeared by them and their friends in the press 
also still a monarchy. like straight up. not even like vestigial royal family, just straight up a monarchy where the king gets your shit if you die and the royal family keeps interferring and blocking shit
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You can tell that the mayo countries aren't actually democracies because they've all had non-white people elected as presidents
Saudi Arabia more democratic than China LMAO
usians are the most propagandized people on earth
How in the fuck is Mexico down? It has to be nationalizing natural resources.
Also lol at Japan. The LDP has been in control since the 50s with little exception.
Saudi Arabia, an absolute monarchy with no legislative body, is more democratic than China or Iran.
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"Hybrid Regime"
lmao
Normalize calling western governments regimes instead of administrations
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Europe alone getting a zoom in scope where other areas that are as dense with nations and therefore hard to read at this scale not getting one, while simultaneously just straight up blocking out other countries, is all you need to know about this map
Look at how they avoid calling attention to Israel, actively conducting a genocide as we speak, being colored green.
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Argentina will be a perfect 10/10 in the updated 2023 map. Thanks Milei!
How is Portugal less of a democracy than Spain??
Why is Paraguay, Mexico, Peru and Equador classified as Hybrid Regime? Is it because Paraguay and Mexico have been electing the same party for 70 years? Why is South Africa with 7.05 and fucking Japan with 8.33!? I mean, they do elect other parties sometimes so shouldn't it be a Flawed Democracy then?
Chile: 8.22
lol, the same country that privatized water and social security, literally pays nothing if you're old and retired.
Mexico elected AMLO that’s why they dropped their “democracy” score.
Source: the America Burger Eagle Institute
this has been a real international moment
Literally "We went down to the pub and here's what five regulars told us" the survey.
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In what world is the UK a democracy?
what a joke
The numerology required for libs to feel comfortable with their white supremacy.
Greenland looking different lately
Democracy index from a pro Pinochet magazine.
I am very groggy, but the way a "democracy index" gets its scores is flawed - theoretically because they work with bourg definition of parliamentary democracy, methodologicaly because sometimes its shit like (S)Expats giving their vibes-based score of the press in a country where they mostly mingle with the upper class (it looks like ""average joe"" middle class to them) or other pretty invalid, subjective or unreliable methods. It's sometimes funny that the US is even failing the more scientific ones that have bourg democracy standards.
Politically, a lot of these indices are tied to letter agencies or corporations, which makes it very easy to clown on them (besides shit like Libya being more democratic than Venezuela)
Obviously it's a somewhat silly idea to measure "democracy" to begin with since "democracy" is a very contested notion.
vibes based international order
Australia, famously a full democracy
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1975_Australian_constitutional_crisis
Edit: Lmao Chilie (and pretty sure Spain, too) have constitutions written by card-carrying fascist dictators.
WHo made this and/or where is it posted? I just want to write some...uh...friendly letters to them. Democraticallly, of course.
The economist
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