@Darth:
You mean US?
The US government functions on a functional court, a variably effective or devastating president, and a cesspool of idiots known as congress.
2/3 of this is done by voting.
Authoritarian states literally can't function without crushing dissent and people power, like by design.
Except of course for the warm fuzzy version in your head.
Oh by the way, about your adorable amateur stab at throwing around logical fallacies. You weren't no unique flower.
Also I dunno why you point at the US anyway. There's a half dozen peaceful (or mostly) little democracies in western Europe and elsewhere.
A) And the only reason that said system was supposedly destroying my country (which, mind you, I know people who would debate you on that fact), is because it was allowed. By your country. Who did absolutly nothing to prevent that.
Wait are you talking about the Russian, Prussian (German), and Austrian empires partitioning up Poland and pooping on Poles? Because the US had nothing to do with that.
Or do you mean WW1 where the same three assholes stomped around that same area, which the US had nothing to do with.
Or WW2 where Hitler invaded and fucked your shit deeply up. Which the US had nothing to do with.
Or Stalin capturing Poland into his empire, which would only have been prevented by the US, UK, and France declaring war on the USSR while the Nazis and Japanese Empire were still alive and kicking.
Stalin wanted his buffer zone and aside from the outer areas like Greece and Austria? There was no stopping that without a massive second phase to WW2.
Also what's your point even? "AUTHORITARIANS TOOK US, AND DEMOCRACIES DIDN'T STOP THEM. ERGO AUTHORITARIANS ARE BETTER?"huhhhh?
B) First off: Most of the countries that took part in WWI were not absolute monarchies. Second: Equating authoritarism with nazism is stupid. Third: For that matter, equating authoritarism with totalitarism is stupid.
Most of them were.
Russia was, Austria was, and the Ottomans were.
Germany was amidst a system that resembles modern day Iran at best lol.
I never equated authoritarianism with Nazism.
Not being North Korea but being East Germany isn't going to appeal to fucking anybody but a nutbar like you.
C) I actually posses several works that were released during PRL, that are far more anti-authoritarian in nature. Somehow, they were not censored. Imagine that. It's almost like you are talking shit.
By an author who was no doubt hounded by whatever the Polish stasi were, or were published in the 80's as the Eastern European communist countries were dying and loosening their grip in the process?
D) Your understanding of european politics is poor at best, which that last comment proves quite easily.
I'd love to hear what's wrong with it lol.
No, people were talking about ELECTING Dalton. The extent of his power remains to be seen. For that matter, whatever or not he is hereditary remains to be seen. Democracy would assume that there would be contr-candidats and that he would remain in power for only limited time.
They were literally talking about voting lol.
Democracy doesn't always assume a relevant challenger.
Why would they vote once and never ever again, when has that ever been a thing anywhere ever.
For that matter, that is baseless conjecture if I ever saw one. Oda lives in constitutional monarchy, therefore any country that's not evil and is a monarchy must be a constitutional monarchy?
Do you really think Oda if pressed would state that the Nefeltari family holds an iron grip on all power lol.
Or you know, considering setting and all, could it be that they are absolute monarchies, just not evil? Oh wait, that would imply that Oda's world has shades of grey, and is not forcing YOUR politcal agenda down everyone's throats. My mistake.
Too bad the first monarchy we ever saw was a perfect example of why hereditary monarchy is inherently retarded and that this is not a black and white issue whatsoever.
It was Drum where no matter how good Wapol's father was, the order of succession rather than anything else put his cartoonishly evil son into a position of unchallenged authority.
Also LOL at acting like being opposed to hereditary fucking monarchy is some political agenda. Are you from the early 1800's or what the fuck??
The only places it still exists are Arabian (and one Malay) petro-states and one tiny shithole in Africa.
all credits to benjamminbrown
