• Majorllama@lemmy.world
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    21 hours ago

    Oh absolutely not. It’s a much smaller population and being an island it’s got a figurative and literal buffer to the rest of the world.

    I have always loved New Zealand. It’s like the cooler uncle of Australia minus all the spiders the size of my head.

    And it’s just a beautiful place. Makes me wanna go frolicking in the mountains with an elf, dwarf and old white guy lol

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      16 hours ago

      Just because an island has a smaller population doesn’t make it any more or less predisposed to egalitarianism, nor do large populations have to be predisposed to authoritarianism.

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          4 hours ago

          “It’s a much smaller population” literally your second sentence, or do you not comprehend your own writing? Why is their smaller population relevant?

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            60 minutes ago

            I should have been more clear. I never said the words “egalitarianism” or “authoritarianism”.

            That would be those “either” of the things I was referring to me having not said.

            Smaller population simply means each person’s vote counts for more. Easier for small groups to have an effect when they only need to reach a smaller number of potential voters.

            EDIT: spelling

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              56 minutes ago

              Smaller population simply means each person’s vote counts for more.

              What about the smaller tribes who live under strict patriarchies that can’t vote? Plenty examples of those in history and today (cults for instance). There are also examples of massive cities with egalitarian urban planning with no centralized temples or food storage. So again I ask, what makes you think population size has anything to do with their politics?

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        20 hours ago

        I never said the politics were the same as my country.

        And many countries are currently in the middle of or already have elected right wing leaders. Not really propaganda when it’s verifiably a fact.