[QUOTE=NoDachi;38286983]Heh my copy of this just got posted through my door 30 minutes ago. I haven't gave it a read yet.
[editline]2nd November 2012[/editline]
They're really not. They just provide commentary on shit that works and what doesn't mostly.
They're always picking apart 'conservative uhmerica' anyway, from gun laws to the GOP to how immigration is actually great (it is) and so forth.[/QUOTE]
I haven't read much of the Economist, but that article at least shows a significant right-wing (as in, right-wing economically, not the conservative or authoritarian ideas that it gets bundled with for some reason) slant.
[QUOTE=GoDong-DK;38298766]If you think ancient Greece (and even talking about ancient Greece as one entity is not very smart) had democracy, you should read your history more carefully - only people that had been in the army were allowed in the people's council, which meant that no women, children and slaves were allowed there. It was quite close to a real democracy, but in no way a modern one. And many of the countries in ancient Greece had oligarchy or monarchy, Athens did not, though.[/QUOTE]
And those were the times, so modern representative democracy was not truly democratic when women and black couldn't vote ?
Surely we can appreciate Athens's direct democracy without wanting the segregation of slaves, women and children.
[QUOTE=HumanAbyss;38285392]I find it hard to believe anyone actually wants a return to the Reagan times without a sence of irony about what happened in the time since.[/QUOTE]
This is the Economist. They love licking Reagan's and Thatcher's arse. They also hate the French because they voted a Socialist president.
[QUOTE=redhaven;38303251]This is the Economist. They love licking Reagan's and Thatcher's arse. They also hate the French because they voted a Socialist president.[/QUOTE]
They also love China, and hate conservative america.
Go figure.
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