simpleRussia starts blocking VPN at the protocol (WireGuard, OpenVPN) level
originaluciferannnd another dictatorship box checked off the list... wont be long now
bufordtUntil what? Until Russia is a dictatorship? That ship sailed a long time ago.
fluxionWon’t be long before Putin catches up to Kim Jong Un in the Oppression Olympics
Stalins_SpoonStill wouldn’t be able to catch up with the US, they are gold medalists
The US has some serious issues with corruption, but it’s FAR from a dictatorship, lol.
Highest prison population w/ privately owned prisons, besides the elite class of your country controls what happens in your country (media included), you have no say in it.
Is there any state, current or historical, that was not a dictatorship according to your metrics?
That would be a oligarchy, not a dictatorship.
So you admit the US has the same form of governance that Russia has? Also you could argue that all parliamentary ‘democracies’ are oligarchies or as Marx said ‘dictatorship of the bourgeoisie’
The dollar rules in the US. That is 100% true and is definitely not a good system. However, that doesn’t make it a dictatorship unless you consider money to be their dictator.
Money cannot be a a dictator, it’s just pieces of paper with value, however the people who hoard it in massive amounts and use it to exert influence on the system, resulting in laws that favor them and their companies, are.
That’s an oligarchy, not a dictatorship.
It’s capitalism’s natural evolution, it happens in every capitalist country, regardless if it brands itself as social democratic, parliamentary democracy, etc.