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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.

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.

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

Its literally a map of how much economic influence the US has over other countries

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"

melanin index

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.

Lmao, Bo-"we're not calling it a US backed coup"-livia at a 4.5.

So they mention that it is at it's "lowest point" since they started tracking it in 2006. I think it is pretty clear that this just measures how compliant or subservient to the US a nation is. Surely even the libbest of libs would notice how dumb it is that Russia dropped almost a whole point in a year, despite no actual changes to their government and therefore their democracy.

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

Democracy is when the bourgeoisie has full control over the political system but pretend they don’t by holding sham elections every few years apparently.

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 more democratic than China LMAO

usians are the most propagandized people on earth

Saudi Arabia, an absolute monarchy with no legislative body, is more democratic than China or Iran.

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

"Hybrid Regime"

lmao

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.

Argentina will be a perfect 10/10 in the updated 2023 map. Thanks Milei!

this has been a real international moment

Source: the America Burger Eagle Institute

In what world is the UK a democracy?

...the Democracy Index produces a weighted average based on the answers to 60 questions, each one with either two or three permitted answers. Most answers are experts' assessments. Some answers are provided by public-opinion surveys from the respective countries. In the case of countries for which survey results are missing, survey results for similar countries and expert assessments are used in order to fill in gaps.

Literally "We went down to the pub and here's what five regulars told us" the survey.

what a joke

Lmao France is classified as a full democracy. The famously democratic Macron regime, such a shining example of democracy.

The numerology required for libs to feel comfortable with their white supremacy.

Greenland looking different lately

vibes based international order

WHo made this and/or where is it posted? I just want to write some...uh...friendly letters to them. Democraticallly, of course.

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.

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.

Democracy index from a pro Pinochet magazine.