I’m pretty sure there are other exceptions
I’m pretty sure there are other exceptions
It’s looking at you and your stellar body
Land of the free
There are many more examples than just Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan comes to mind but also many other Muslim countries use Islam and Shari’a law to control the population or use religious laws as an excuse for their authoritarianism. No religion is free of that.
The Chinese approach is far more effective I fear. The Soviet way worked only with mixed results and was more ideology driven than logical. In Poland, the Catholic Church became a huge factor in the opposition because of that. If religion is deeply rooted in society, controlling and steering religion makes for a powerful tool to control the masses while fighting it automatically makes it a strong opposition force.
Lol, sure it does
Two choices is not complete control
What? Not all positions are elected, in no system. Or when did you vote for secretary of state in the US?
The prime minister of France is not an elected position but appointed by the president. This has nothing to do with multiparty democracy.
Counter examples exist. Willy Brandt was social-democratic German chancellor in a coalition with the liberals while the conservatives were the biggest party in parliament. The conservatives could only watch.
Also recent state elections in Thuringia, the fascist AfD is the biggest party but nobody wants to work with them, so they don’t get a chance to form a government.
What’s important in both cases: the majority of voters want it that way. They wanted a social-democratic+liberal government under Willy Brandt and there is a clear majority in Thuringia that don’t want the AfD to govern. In both cases it’s more democratic to not let the biggest party govern.
In a two party system the power balance within the coalition is decided behind closed doors and the voters have no say in it
As long as the coalition represents the majority, I don’t see why the largest party needs to be part of the government. The largest party doesn’t represent the will of the people by itself, otherwise they would have a majority.
It’s different if you control the whole supply chain obviously, that’s one of the exceptions I talked about
They are all enabling drug cartels, so no, none of them are good. We can’t go around and say companies if not by law are at least morally responsible for child labour and forced labour camps in their supply chain and at the same time ignore that every fucking dealer gets their shit from sources that do the very same thing. There might be exceptions for some drugs, I’m not that deep into it, but in general there is no moral way to sell illegal drugs.
What’s a good person
Not the person I’m replying to, that’s for sure.
still taking Russian oil
That’s a lie
Also: Germany’s coal power production drops to lowest level in 60 years in 2023
Stop with that bullshit
Not if your goal is to reach net zero emissions at some point
There are definitely use cases for battery-electric trains:
It’s very popular, I’ve seen it a lot
It’s Germany’s biggest union