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Ireland had a lot of death and fights it was not easy… it never is.
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Not so fun fact, Switzerland became a “democracy” in 1848, but some parts of the country didnt give women the right to vote until they were forced to in the 1990s. At that point, there were only 9 other countries left in the world where women did not have suffrage
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also needs Putin at the end
To be fair to Nappy III, he’s surprisingly progressive for the time. He gave plenty of worker’s rights during the time when it had to be fought from the bottom up. He was still an imperialist though.
He wasnt democratically elected tho no?
He wasn’t really but he was following his uncle’s footsteps of being an “enlightened dictator”. It was kind of about ruling with more executive power to uphold liberal values for the benefit of the people. The view on what liberalism and democracy are, at the time, is different to the modern perception.
Hope left Russia long ago…
Nichevo.
And now every place has to do it again
Never forget https://youtu.be/fgm14D1jHUw
With this level of knowledge of Irish history, I can only assume that whoever made this is a proud Irish American.
I thought so as well at first, but the meme starts at the independence of the irish. Wasn’t it directly going Democratic? And the troubles were between 2 democratic countries. So while the meme doesn’t portray the history of the Irish and their problems, it shows the transition to a democratic system AFTER the independence was rather smooth.
The way I see it, when Ireland became independent, the proportional representation was already envisioned and embedded into the new Irish constitution when other countries, at the time, were pussyfooting on doing the same thing, because their elites benefit from the two party system. Fianna Fail tried to rid of the PR with a referendum in the 1950s, but failed by a razon thin margin. Imagine if ridding PR was successful and we’d be like the US and UK in having a shitshow of politics.
That said, many post-colonial countries either struggled or failed with upholding democracy and becoming rich, while Ireland had been relatively smooth in achieving both. The country had been lucky in that regard.
Is something troubling you about Irish history?
What you did there, I see it
I went to dublin once. I know more Irish history now then the creator of this.
Napoleon (again) looks a little too long, it was just 100 days.
Unusually frustrating pug posting as the timelines are on vastly different scales. Iirc Russia’s is like half as long.
There’s a bit missing from Ireland, if we’re honest.
Also a “few” bit missing from Denmark. The king didn’t relinquish actual power until much later, and interfered with Danish politics well into the 20th century. In fact Denmark had a dictatorship in the late 19th century which functioned via the power that the king still had.
Most egregiously that bit is a settler colonial statelett carved out of Ireland that is still to be reunited. But also some 700 years of violent, sometimes genocidal repression, long spells of apartite conditions, culture erasure, language erasure, and generally not cool behavior.
And something about potatoes
Didn’t Russia have an actual functioning but highly dysfunctional democracy for a few years until the oligarchs chose Putin as the ‘moderate’?
functioning but highly dysfunctional democracy
Haha, good one. I’ll drink to that.
It… depends on how you define functioning. The 90s were… chaotic.
now do one for the democratic people’s republic of the united states of america
How’s this?
GWOT?
“Global War On Terror”, the entire fucked post-9/11 state of foreign policy.
Includes internal rights restrictions of citizens as well
Thank you!
I figured it was “War On Terror”, but was going through stuff like Greater War on Terror or George’s War on Terror, but not global.
I’m a bit rusty but I’m pretty sure canada is up beside ireland
Probably would need the bike to be almost exclusively made out of indigenous leather. Even in the place where the thing was patented it is known.
