At least they were kind enough to point out the source

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    1 year ago

    Trying to figure out if they recognize the US is so bad it finally warrants as a flawed democracy by their own warped metrics, or if there’s a party bias and they’re calling the US flawed because they don’t like how much power the other side has in their country…

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        Oh they do. Even funnier, I bet some of them realize the “authoritarian” countries happen to be ones not under the economic control of Europe or the US, but as soon as they show a trickle of self-awareness I bet they shut it down.

        That one meme of Principal Skinner.

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      It also gives them plausible deniability. If you pint out an inconsistency they can say that they’re “unbiased”

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        True. Though, considering Europe - and especially Scandinavia - is deepest blue, I wonder if the source is just European.

        Actually just looked it up. Statista is German, lmao.