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cytg111

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But not China. Tianmen is still non existent in China.
Not arguing China isNT further ahead than the US, just saying it's on the same trajectory. I mean I hope there is a democrat tea party moment in the workings but .................
 
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Fenixgoon

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fskimospy

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Brovane

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The EU democracy index only goes through 2024 so this would make sense as that's the US under Biden.

I strongly suspect when that comes out for 2025 the US score will be MUCH lower. Much, much lower.

What is the number you are predicting? You have a number in mind right?

EIU Democracy Index

North Korea 1.08
China 2.11
United States 7.85
Canada 8.69
Norway 9.81
 

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"Time to drop the really big bomb: @realDonaldTrump is in the Epstein files"

– Elon Musk, June 5, 2025
 

cytg111

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https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/what-countries-have-authoritarian-government

How are you objectively measuring the authoritarian level?

EIU Democracy Index

North Korea 1.08
China 2.11
United States 7.85
Canada 8.69
Norway 9.81
I take a crap and count the corn. How do you objectively gauge the stretchiness of ones own rectum. Like seriously, is there an iso standard, standardized tools, is a certification needed, is there training?

Free speech is not as free as it used to be is it? Now what you bring Winnie The Pooh up. Getting socials checked for bad mouthing dear leader, media getting sued and paying bribes to dear leader, media companies firing staff critical of dear leader, ice gestapo in the streets, military deployed to blue cities, educational institutions not fellating dear leader gets funding pulled SO ON AND SO ON AND SO ON.

But OBJECTIVELY? Objectively I guess I just took a shit. Was a big one too. You ever take a shit so big that you be like, I think I just lost all the weight... Do I have abs now? I think I'm ripped. - That kind of shit?
 
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fskimospy

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What is the number you are predicting? You have a number in mind right?

EIU Democracy Index

North Korea 1.08
China 2.11
United States 7.85
Canada 8.69
Norway 9.81
The number is before Trump so it is not informative. Pretty simple.
 

Brovane

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What a weird hill.

Considering what the Chinese people go through with the Chinese government and the authoritarian nature of that government it is fairly weird to try and place the US and China anywhere on equal terms. I believe Apples to Apples was the term used.

The number is before Trump so it is not informative. Pretty simple.

Technically not. Unless you have completely blocked out from you memory Trumps first term.
 

outriding

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Considering what the Chinese people go through with the Chinese government and the authoritarian nature of that government it is fairly weird to try and place the US and China anywhere on equal terms. I believe Apples to Apples was the term used.



Technically not. Unless you have completely blocked out from you memory Trumps first term.

The first term of trump we did not have ICE tazing and arresting US citizens and have a pod caster the head of the FBI
 

fskimospy

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Technically not. Unless you have completely blocked out from you memory Trumps first term.
It was measuring America as it was under Biden, which is radically different than it is now.

Sorry but you simply can’t use that metric to evaluate the US as it exists today.
 

Brovane

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The first term of trump we did not have ICE tazing and arresting US citizens and have a pod caster the head of the FBI

Have you not been paying attention? LE has been tazing and arresting US citizens for a long time. Sometimes just because.......
 

outriding

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Have you not been paying attention? LE has been tazing and arresting US citizens for a long time. Sometimes just because.......

Dude …..

Really

Ok. Point out where a FEDERAL agency which was tasked with capturing illegals based solely on color or the name being “Mexican sounding” be rounding up

Let me cliff note Tom Homen’s interview. If you look illegal you will be rounded up

Tell me where the head of a department openly said if you look illegal is enough to round up people

And the supreme court court is ok with this level of bullshit

 

trenchfoot

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Elmo isn't going to get the $1T pay package if sales keep dropping.

Apparently nobody has told him, Elmo is the key reason that sales are dropping.

That Nazi salute he so proudly heiled at Trump's Inaugural must be worth billions in lost sales scattered throughout his business empire. My schadenfreude rears it's sunny smiling face once again.
 

Brovane

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That Nazi salute he so proudly heiled at Trump's Inaugural must be worth billions in lost sales scattered throughout his business empire. My schadenfreude rears it's sunny smiling face once again.

Tesla shareholders voted for exactly what they are getting. Nobody could claim they didn't know when they voted for the most recent Elmo pay package.
 

UNCjigga

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Nazi boy did nazi that coming

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It’s so sad that in 2025 there are still so many MAGA diehards in this country who believe in their hearts they are “America first” and don’t realize they’ve been mind warped by a foreign influence operation and are blindly following traitors to the United States.

Many of us with more than 2 functioning brain cells realized it during Trump’s first campaign—many more came to this realization during the pandemic.