Comments by "Persona" (@ArawnOfAnnwn) on "Erdoganomics: the Policy that is making Turkey collapse - VisualPolitik EN" video.

@___Truth___ Ironically the US has far less effective govt. controls than parliamentary democracies do. The very existence of the presidency as a powerful institution is a statement in favor of strong leadership. And take note that the US is one of the few so far successful examples of this system. In other places where a powerful presidential system has been tried, it often just ends up slipping into autocracy and failing. America has just dodged that bullet, so far. But even in America, the President today is more powerful than he's ever been, or at least since the time of Lincoln...during the Civil War...
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Petian If Turkey has to be punished for its past, how about the US for theirs? It's both more recent AND larger (Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq, etc. etc. etc.). Literally millions. Or the British for theirs (say, for 3 million dead in Bengal)? Or the French? And so on. Why is it the west never has crimes to pay for? Oh right, they won the wars and emerged as top dog. Some justice.
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Petian No it's not flawed because you people only know how to use dismissive labelling tactics than actual engagement. Have you even looked up that word, say on Wikipedia? They have an entire section of the page dedicated to people who've pointed out how its used to avoid dealing with accusations of hypocrisy. Which is exactly what you're doing here. Makes sense if I used George Floyd, since that's just one death versus a thousands, but not when bringing up comparable or even larger crimes (also more recent here). "yea but one time.." - that one time was even more recently lol! It's also bigger. And that's just one example. How long are you going to keep evading responsibility huh? When is it ever going to be the wests' turn to face justice? Or are you going to keep pointing fingers at others every time, and when confronted with your own record for which you've never been punished, just dismiss it as whataboutism and get away with it again? See the problem? You never have to face justice this way. Convenient! And in terms of preventing future suffering, it's again the US that should be in the dock first lol! They're the country that's been to war around the world the most, and the one that's continued warmongering right up to the present. There was even a Gallup survey on that a few years ago, which asked people around the world who they thought was the greatest threat to world peace. The US won by a thumping majority, it wasn't even close lol! So if you want to prevent more deaths, the US is the country you need to rein in first. If you want 'deter other nations', the one most in need of deterrence is the US. But that's not even possible lol, since the US doesn't even recognize the primacy of the ICJ over it.
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@mayer14474 Iran? Lol, you do realize that Iran's economy has been deliberately made to suffer by the US, right?
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@farzana6676 Lol America hunts a lot more than just 'Islamist terrorists'. A LOT more...
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@___Truth___ No it hasn't. The amount of consensus required for Congress to do anything meaningful to challenge the president ensures it's mostly ineffectual. The SC is powerful, thanks to being more decisive, which is why skewing its judges is such a big priority for every president who gets the opportunity. But while the SC is an important part of the state, it isn't exactly a symbol of its democratic nature - that's on purpose, courts are typically insulated from popular control to ensure justice remains factual rather than sentimental. Congress is the most democratic institution in the nation and it's also the weakest of the three compared to its parliamentary counterparts.
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