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by pif 943 days ago
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.
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> 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