NightOwl to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 7 months agoWe don't all smoke weed in Germany, Scholz assures Chinese studentswww.reuters.comexternal-linkmessage-square16fedilinkarrow-up189arrow-down13cross-posted to: [email protected]
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minus-squarewoelkchen@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12arrow-down2·7 months ago British Also Imperial Britain was a monarchy, not a free country. Brunacho’s comment makes zero sense.
minus-squareforce@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·edit-27 months agoTo be fair just before the time of the opium wars they were relatively far along in their process of converting to a democracy.
minus-squarewoelkchen@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5arrow-down2·7 months ago they were relatively far along in their process of converting to a democracy. A country with an unelected House of Lords is still not a free democracy.
minus-squareFozzyOsbourne@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·7 months agoThe wackiest thing is that it’s often the Lords who have stopped the Commons enacting some really authoritarian stuff!
Also Imperial Britain was a monarchy, not a free country. Brunacho’s comment makes zero sense.
To be fair just before the time of the opium wars they were relatively far along in their process of converting to a democracy.
A country with an unelected House of Lords is still not a free democracy.
The wackiest thing is that it’s often the Lords who have stopped the Commons enacting some really authoritarian stuff!