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by itsumoiru 943 days ago
"The people" are not one. It's entirely possible to have an oppressive democracy.
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As long as it cannot be oppressive to the majority of the population, and until you are free to emigrate taking your belongings with you, calling "oppressive" a modern democratic country is a huge lack of respect to those people who lived their entire life with no choice at all.
> you are free to emigrate taking your belongings with you

So Russia/China/Saudi are not oppressive? There are very few places that you can't leave, except maybe North Korea and Palestine