Quote (fender @ 21 Feb 2023 23:04)
The Democracy Index was created by The Economist Group, you know, the ones who publish The Economist, which is THE flagship journal of neoliberal globalism.
Also, if you look at the comparison between Canada and the U.S. over the years, you will see that Canada's democracy index dropped by 0.27 between 2016 and 2022 while the US dropped by just 0.2 points over the same timeframe (which I chose because it starts with the last year of Obama's presidency and contains all of Trump's presidency during which there allegedly was oh-so-much "erosion of democractic norms").
Quote (fender @ 21 Feb 2023 23:04)
haha, remember how you lot predicted that after declaring emergency, trudeau would never rescind it again, turning canada into an authoritarian hellhole over night, quoting that dumb little milton friedman line about temporary government measures? was funny how none of you said a word about it after he ended it not even ten days later, after dealing with the weeks-long protests that shut down border crossings and effectively paralysed the canadian capital, holding the majority of its citizens, who aren't anti-vaxx karens, hostage.
you really think enough time has passed that people forgot that? that you can act like you ever had a point? think again, lol...
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/17/canada-trucker-protests-trudeau.htmlOh please. First, it should be obvious that public resistance to authoritarian covid policies played a role in pushing them back. Across the world, certain public health figures were suggesting that we should wear masks forever, every winter, irrespective from covid.
Here in Germany, the prime minister of the state of Baden-Württemberg (roughly comparable to the governor of Florida or New York, to give our American friends an idea) was suggesting to suspend inconvenient parts of our constitution and get rid of certain aspects of the separation of powers in favor of a more efficient pandemic regime. And if our minister of health had gotten his way, we would still be wearing masks in every interior setting until Easter (of 2023) at the very least; the only reason we got rid of them was the pushback from our country's classically liberal/libertarian party. The other mainstream parties would happily have gone along with it.
And last but not least, keep in mind that there was a clear majority in favor of a vaccine mandate in the German parliament... in fucking April of 2022, at a time when the worst of the pandemic was already behind us, when there no longer was a threat of hospitals getting overwhelmend and when it was already established by the science that the available vaccines were doing absolutely fuck-all to reduce the transmission of covid against the dominant strains at the time. The only reason the proposal failed was because the majority of yes votes were divided between the governing coalition and the opposition.
This post was edited by Black XistenZ on Feb 22 2023 06:17am