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My Venezuelan friends say Maduro is a dictator (lemmy.ml)
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[–] narwhal@mander.xyz 37 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

"Dictatorship vs Democracy" is the new "Savage vs Civilized". Words thrown around without explanation to signal friend and foe in the current ideological framework used to justify imperial conquest.

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 26 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Biden literally framed it as “democracy vs autocracy.” As if the US has ever been anything close to a democracy.

[–] QuoVadisHomines@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 week ago

It has danced around notions of being a democratic republic.