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Yes. Your argument is about de-democratisation. I talk about democratic vs. authoritarian.
I argue it's better to be democratic than not. You argue that countries become less democratic. Those are different topics.
Quite the opposite, actually. They're more lenient because they're less stable, as it's not guaranteed you'll stay in the office after everything's over. Russia's status quo from a political standpoint is the strongest it has ever been.
All political opposition has been eradicated. Everybody's threatened to speak out because they now they'll just get jailed. There can be no mass protests because the current incumbent is simply too strong to oppose.
That's not me they're disagreeing with. Again, that's not my classification. All I argue is that "artificial democracies" are far worse. Russia is one, BTW. It likes to hold a facade of being a democracy, when in reality, it's a hybrid regime (namely, informational autocracy).
So, you decided to ignore my question and be a douche about it... I'll take it as "I don't like it, so it's fascist" then.
Citizens, obviously. How is that even a question?