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After Peddling Fake Hamas 'Beheaded Babies' Story, Media Ignores Actual Beheaded Palestinian Baby (www.thecanary.co)

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[–] [email protected] -2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Some context.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Additional context located under Leading Role of Communist Party. I would argue that one party/the federal government having full constitutional control over who's on the ballet leans more Authoritarian than Democratic.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I feel like reading through that just makes it feel like the USSR was more democratic back then than we are now.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I definitely can't argue with the world's constant decline towards fascism and authoritarianism. Though that doesn't discount the authoritarian tendencies that existed in the Soviet Union that stop it from qualifying as a true democracy.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I think it came closer to democracy as an ideal than any capitalist one tbh, especially before destalinization and the entrenchment of the bureaucracy that came with it.

Also the world isn't sliding toward fascism, that is just the US led imperial core as their power over the rest of the world slips. Plenty of places are freeing themselves right now, look to the west African confederation