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		krapp on Feb 20, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: IRIS²: The EU’s Response to Musk’s Starlink If your definition of Democracy requires no deception or falsehood in politics then there likely has never been a Democracy in human history. The voters never work with perfect knowledge, and the politicians always lie.

skinnymuch on Feb 22, 2023 [–]

There's a bar to what we should call Democracy. It clearly isn't America with how liberal manufacturing consent works. We're in a neoliberal era.

Besides their xenophobia and racism, at least the Nordic countries are closer to informed voters.

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