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Moldoteckyesterday at 1:16 PM1 replyview on HN

part of democracy is being free to criticize. And their threat to leave italian market is fair too


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notepad0x90today at 12:20 AM

Part of democracy is that the people of that country get to criticize their own government. It is anti-democratic for a wealthy and powerful individual of a foreign country to undermine a democratically instituted governmental organization. Italians get to have a voice in the governance of Italy and criticize their own government, that's democracy. We just had our democracy destroyed by another billionaire, quite frankly people like Musk are the biggest dangers to democracy right now, powerful individuals wielding unequal influence over democracies, where they use that influence to use democracy as a proxy for their oligarchy.