NightOwl@lemmy.ca to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 months agoWe don't all smoke weed in Germany, Scholz assures Chinese studentswww.reuters.comexternal-linkmessage-square11fedilinkarrow-up16arrow-down10
arrow-up16arrow-down1external-linkWe don't all smoke weed in Germany, Scholz assures Chinese studentswww.reuters.comNightOwl@lemmy.ca to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 months agomessage-square11fedilink
minus-squareforce@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·6 months agoI can’t seriously believe that Chinese people didn’t abuse psychoactive substances before they discovered the joy of British opium
minus-squarewoelkchen@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·6 months ago British Also Imperial Britain was a monarchy, not a free country. Brunacho’s comment makes zero sense.
minus-squareforce@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-26 months agoTo be fair just before the time of the opium wars they were relatively far along in their process of converting to a democracy.
minus-squarewoelkchen@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·6 months ago they were relatively far along in their process of converting to a democracy. A country with an unelected House of Lords is still not a free democracy.
minus-squareFozzyOsbourne@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·6 months agoThe wackiest thing is that it’s often the Lords who have stopped the Commons enacting some really authoritarian stuff!
I can’t seriously believe that Chinese people didn’t abuse psychoactive substances before they discovered the joy of British opium
Also Imperial Britain was a monarchy, not a free country. Brunacho’s comment makes zero sense.
To be fair just before the time of the opium wars they were relatively far along in their process of converting to a democracy.
A country with an unelected House of Lords is still not a free democracy.
The wackiest thing is that it’s often the Lords who have stopped the Commons enacting some really authoritarian stuff!