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turkeyintrouble
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Social media shutdown in Turkey
It's hard to have a peaceful revolution when the people are mostly in favor of him.
234dd57d2c8db
on Nov 4, 2016
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So democracy is working as intended, the people decided. Just because you don't agree with the results of democracy doesn't invalidate it.
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Except democracy relies on freedom of the press in order to operate. Brainwashing a population into supporting one guy and holding elections every so often to confirm the brainwashing is working isn't democracy.
triplesec
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Exactly it. Turkey is operating like Putin's Russia. IT's on the way to the same model.
turkeyintrouble
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Yes. The problem is more complex than "democracy ra ra ra".
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