• davel@lemmy.ml
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    4 days ago

    There’s no “so-called” about it. Plenty of Westphalian states are “authoritarian”, and most “democracies” aren’t actually democratic[1][2].

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      4 days ago

      It was not a comparison, just stated the obvious. Calling names for things doesn’t change them. Hence calling themselves democratic doesn’t make them one.