r/worldnewsvideo • u/PlenitudeOpulence Plenty 🩺🧬💜 • Apr 27 '24

Live Video 🌎 “The Empire Did Nothing Wrong”

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u/jutzi46 Apr 27 '24

Do you see how it's functioning ATM?

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u/The100thIdiot Apr 27 '24

What do you mean by "functioning"?

The lights are on, they have running water and sanitation, a strong and resilient economy, and a democratic political system.

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u/ceroproxy Apr 27 '24

> a democratic political system

LOL

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u/The100thIdiot Apr 27 '24

You can LOL all you like but the fact is that it is a parliamentary democracy.

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u/ceroproxy Apr 27 '24

Apartheid states are not democracies.

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u/The100thIdiot Apr 27 '24

Israel isn't an apartheid state.

The occupied territories are operated under an apartheid system.

These differences are important.

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u/ceroproxy Apr 27 '24

Israel isn't an apartheid state.

The occupied territories are operated under an apartheid system.

Occupied by whom? Within whose borders??

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u/The100thIdiot Apr 27 '24

Occupied by Israel.

Within their own borders.

That doesn't make them part of Israel or Israel itself apartheid.

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u/ceroproxy Apr 27 '24

SMH

username checks out

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u/The100thIdiot Apr 27 '24

Oh sorry, is nuance a bit above you?

Next time I will try and dumb things down.

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u/ceroproxy Apr 27 '24

You're a fucking troll. I'm done with your stupid ass.

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u/The100thIdiot Apr 27 '24

Well done.

I'll still be here when you grow up.

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u/almighty_darklord Apr 27 '24

Is south Africa also a democracy then?

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u/The100thIdiot Apr 27 '24

Yes, although not the same type.

Do you not have access to Google?

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u/almighty_darklord Apr 27 '24

Ok great. End of discussion. You think apartheid south Africa is a democracy. That's all I need to know.

Or will you bend over backwards like a pretzel trying to explain how apartheid south Africa is actually a great democracy with no apartheid if you just squint and ignore everything that happens there

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u/The100thIdiot Apr 27 '24

Are you living in the past?

South Africa ended apartheid in 1994. I remember celebrating it.

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u/almighty_darklord Apr 27 '24

So you're ancient? Then you must know I mean when I say is SA a democracy. If you have more than two neurons to rub together you might just get what context mean.

Question still stands. Is APARTHEID south Africa. A democracy?

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u/The100thIdiot Apr 27 '24

So you're ancient?

Older than the pyramids.

Then you must know I mean when I say is SA a democracy

Not one to make dangerous assumptions, I shall and did take your words at face value.

If you have more than two neurons to rub together you might just get what context mean.

I wouldn't recommend rubbing neurons together. It isn't good for them. Yes, I understand what context means. Shame you didn't provide any.

Is APARTHEID south Africa. A democracy?

APARTHEID South Africa no longer exists.

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u/almighty_darklord Apr 27 '24

APARTHEID South Africa no longer exists.

Uhuh. But was it a democracy. History doesn't get erased if you don't like it. And south Africa still suffers from the effects of apartheid and will for a long long time. I'd appreciate it if you stop dodging a simple yes no question

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u/The100thIdiot Apr 27 '24

But was it a democracy.

No.

See, if you use the right words (even if missing the punctuation), you may find it easier to get the answers you want.

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u/almighty_darklord Apr 27 '24

Great. So apartheid doesn't go hand in hand with democracy. So why do you call Israel a democracy.

If you want to say the same bs of it's not technically Israel 🤓 because the illegal settlements aren't on Israeli soil by some definitions. When there are cars marked Palestinians and can't go everywhere and Israeli cars that can damn well drive into gods house and the idf would protect them. When there are roads a Palestinian can't walk on. They can't modify their homes (even in the so called Israel free zone). They can't vote and have to stick with the government Israel installed

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2014/07/30/how-israel-helped-create-hamas/

https://www.timesofisrael.com/for-years-netanyahu-propped-up-hamas-now-its-blown-up-in-our-faces/

Or how the people in Israel still face significant discrimination and have second class citizenships. Etc...

Sounds very democratic to me. I mean how democratic can an ethnostate be?

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