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[-] febra@lemmy.world 85 points 1 year ago

Amazing. Losing democratic rights quite quickly up there in the UK, I see.

[-] chitak166@lemmy.world 54 points 1 year ago

The solution is to break the social contract on both sides.

Governments need to learn they answer to the people, not the wealthy.

[-] qdJzXuisAndVQb2@lemm.ee 26 points 1 year ago

Nothing will be accomplished without violence.

[-] chitak166@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

Civil disobedience, more likely.

[-] endhits@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

Civil disobedience is what the history books say is the thing to do. Not what reality says is the thing to do.

[-] qdJzXuisAndVQb2@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago

Agreed. See Scheidel's The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century.

Civil disobedience is what they just got 6 months in jail for.

Por que no los dos?

[-] Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

What are you talking about? They still have the right and ability to vote.

[-] febra@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yeah because we know democratic rights evolve just around the right to vote and nothing else on top of that

[-] owen@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago

I'm sure North Koreans feel blessed with democracy and freedom every time they hit the polls LOL

[-] postmateDumbass@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

They would be totally good if they got 2 choices instead of one.

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