Look, the alternative is to be occupied by USG. Famine is better than letting USG empower your society's deviants to castrate and molest your sons and turn your daughters into sterile sexbots. It's easier to rebuild from famine than from USG rotting your culture.
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What about Saudi Arabia, which is an absolute monarchy of the ancien régime type, never been communist? The Saud royals have billions in offshore bank accounts, the people do barely ok (thanks to oil surplus) but are forced to live in the pod under the heel of the morality police
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KSA seems above average for an Arab society but the real main motivation for a King there is "don't piss off American progressives or they'll try to kill you to install fanatic Muslims". Dubai, otoh, looks great on almost any measure because they're small enough to be overlooked
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Dubai is great only if you're rich. But the US and Brazil too are Ok if you're rich.
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Dubai is well governed If you're poor and you want to work for some time to make good money, you can do so What it doesn't allow is a poor person going there to impose costs on everyone so he can get the thrill of living near wealth while getting the thrill of destroying things
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Is SF "good for poor people"? It certainly lets them get the monkey thrill of making people with more money than them miserable by petty annoyances and occasionally violent intimidation and even actual violence.
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Of course not, but democracy is not to blame for conditions in SF, because there's no democracy in the US. If there were, the immigration act of 1965 would never have existed.
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There's no democracy in the US the same way there was no communism in the USSR
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But I can point to Switzerland as a true democracy.
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Seems to work ok for the Swiss. They're Swiss; most things that aren't as insane as communism would work well for them Ultimately though democracy is broken and would break in Switzerland too if not held together by non-democratic means - if one party starts importing voters...
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What stops that is some rules but ultimately what stops that is a commitment that some things are more important than the "democracy" of counting noses.
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