Tbf, out of all of them, ireland tried democracy the latest. The irish had a lot of examples to base their work on
Trenzalore11th on
I’m glad Germany wasn’t included here. Would have required a lot of scrolling.
ArcticTern4theWorse on
Somehow, Napoleon returned
i-eat-solder on
Britain is my favourite example of a democracy building even if they’re not a republic per say. King does an oopsie and ends up in an unfortunate position -> people demand more rights or else. Rinse, repeat.
Salt-Grass6209 on
Generations of Russians watching their autocratic and oppressive government collapse and be replaced with another one:
leoskini on
This chart implies that the February revolution was somehow a step backwards for democracy, which is… a perspective of sorts I guess.
CockchopsMcGraw on
Russia will collapse before it becomes a healthy democracy, the sooner the better
MorgrainX on
Try Germany next
Might need a couple pages
metatalks on
This should be a genuine chart that should be taught in schools. would save 3 months of teaching.
CardOk755 on
Sort of glossing over the Irish civil war and the decades of stagnation and corruption.
Real-Pomegranate-235 on
UK: Very slowly edging towards it until 1928 on a really long hill
Suspected_Magic_User on
Yeah… In my lifetime there have already been 4 popes, but only 2 presidents of Russia.
Ok_Angle7676 on
Dictatorship is the only thing that keeps the ruskis from destroying everything
Rabid_Lederhosen on
The Democracy flag for Ireland should arguably be before Independence.
Gav3121 on
You realmy simplified the french one
El-estratega_memero on
I’m surprised Spain didn’t appear in here, we went nuts with our governments during the period from 1812-1939
GB_Alph4 on
Freedom and democracy takes a lot of ways to get there but if you push for it you get there
Minute-Aide9556 on
Ireland was democratic before independence – as democratic as the UK, of which it was a part.
undreamedgore on
The US’s is actually similar to Denmark’s which for how early (relative to it’s contemporaries) it was is pretty great.
Greatest thing Gorege Washington ever did was stop being President.
Whole_Employee_2370 on
It will never not be funny to me seeing pre-revolutionary France described as “an absolute monarchy” lmao
buppus-hound on
Russia was more democratic when a monarchy than when communist?
MrGrax on
Now do America.
West-Contribution797 on
Haha, yeah 🙁
*sobbing in russian*
Drucchi on
For Denmark I will note that when women got the vote it is often forgotten that every adult got the vote, before that it was only wealthy land owning men who could vote, meaning that the entire working class got the vote then.
Mystic-Mastermind on
How is the reign of terror better than revolution or nappy 1?
Plodderic on
It’s been a long road, getting from there to here
Blubbolo on
Russia will never be a democracy, they have it in their DNA to live like cattle for the czar, be it a king, party leader or “president”
VladimireUncool on
Bicycles are always a solution to all of Denmark’s problems
hot_messxoxo on
this is kinda random but it reminded me of something my ex used to say… he’d always talk about how “nothing real ever comes easy” and i used to roll my eyes at it, but looking back it’s weird how true it felt in different ways. like we had such an easy start and i thought that meant it was meant to last, but when things actually got hard we couldn’t hold it together. now whenever i see stuff like this it makes me think about how messy the process is for anything meaningful, whether it’s countries or relationships… it’s never just a straight line 😭
DefTheOcelot on
Putting the Absolute Monarchy as a hill at all is not very historically informed. Even in the monarchies of europe, it was tyrannical, holding onto serfdom to the early 1900s. They were basically always 25 years behind western europe on progress. The very concept of ‘power comes from the people’ of the enlightenment deeply offended Catherine the great.
MateuszC1 on
Why would you consider the “reign of terror” as an “up”? It was by far the worst part of the, already bad, French Revolution.
StrontiumDawn on
France did the hard fighting for us (DK). They scared every monarch in Europe shitless.
Orion920 on
I find the england one more funny. Civil war to become a republic, decide 20 years later that a monarchy was more fun.
AvariceLegion on
That’s like comparing a small us town to an average Chinese city
Aggressive-Rate-5022 on
It’s kinda stupid to show “reign of terror” as closer to democracy than “revolution”. Or Napoleon I and restoration of monarchy.
The same can be said about Russian “absolute monarchy” and revolution. I know that people don’t like communists and revolution in Russia is linked to this, but monarchy was unbelievable shit, not one bit closer to democracy than communism. If anything, it was further in this regard.
Edit: I get the sentiment, but because of this little details picture still looks kinda goofy.
Oddisredit on
Why is the reign of terror seen as higher point than even Nap III?
are_you_a_clanker on
It’s mildly weird that it skips over all of Ireland’s rebellions but eh
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Tbf, out of all of them, ireland tried democracy the latest. The irish had a lot of examples to base their work on
I’m glad Germany wasn’t included here. Would have required a lot of scrolling.
Somehow, Napoleon returned
Britain is my favourite example of a democracy building even if they’re not a republic per say. King does an oopsie and ends up in an unfortunate position -> people demand more rights or else. Rinse, repeat.
Generations of Russians watching their autocratic and oppressive government collapse and be replaced with another one:
This chart implies that the February revolution was somehow a step backwards for democracy, which is… a perspective of sorts I guess.
Russia will collapse before it becomes a healthy democracy, the sooner the better
Try Germany next
Might need a couple pages
This should be a genuine chart that should be taught in schools. would save 3 months of teaching.
Sort of glossing over the Irish civil war and the decades of stagnation and corruption.
UK: Very slowly edging towards it until 1928 on a really long hill
Yeah… In my lifetime there have already been 4 popes, but only 2 presidents of Russia.
Dictatorship is the only thing that keeps the ruskis from destroying everything
The Democracy flag for Ireland should arguably be before Independence.
You realmy simplified the french one
I’m surprised Spain didn’t appear in here, we went nuts with our governments during the period from 1812-1939
Freedom and democracy takes a lot of ways to get there but if you push for it you get there
Ireland was democratic before independence – as democratic as the UK, of which it was a part.
The US’s is actually similar to Denmark’s which for how early (relative to it’s contemporaries) it was is pretty great.
Greatest thing Gorege Washington ever did was stop being President.
It will never not be funny to me seeing pre-revolutionary France described as “an absolute monarchy” lmao
Russia was more democratic when a monarchy than when communist?
Now do America.
Haha, yeah 🙁
*sobbing in russian*
For Denmark I will note that when women got the vote it is often forgotten that every adult got the vote, before that it was only wealthy land owning men who could vote, meaning that the entire working class got the vote then.
How is the reign of terror better than revolution or nappy 1?
It’s been a long road, getting from there to here
Russia will never be a democracy, they have it in their DNA to live like cattle for the czar, be it a king, party leader or “president”
Bicycles are always a solution to all of Denmark’s problems
this is kinda random but it reminded me of something my ex used to say… he’d always talk about how “nothing real ever comes easy” and i used to roll my eyes at it, but looking back it’s weird how true it felt in different ways. like we had such an easy start and i thought that meant it was meant to last, but when things actually got hard we couldn’t hold it together. now whenever i see stuff like this it makes me think about how messy the process is for anything meaningful, whether it’s countries or relationships… it’s never just a straight line 😭
Putting the Absolute Monarchy as a hill at all is not very historically informed. Even in the monarchies of europe, it was tyrannical, holding onto serfdom to the early 1900s. They were basically always 25 years behind western europe on progress. The very concept of ‘power comes from the people’ of the enlightenment deeply offended Catherine the great.
Why would you consider the “reign of terror” as an “up”? It was by far the worst part of the, already bad, French Revolution.
France did the hard fighting for us (DK). They scared every monarch in Europe shitless.
I find the england one more funny. Civil war to become a republic, decide 20 years later that a monarchy was more fun.
That’s like comparing a small us town to an average Chinese city
It’s kinda stupid to show “reign of terror” as closer to democracy than “revolution”. Or Napoleon I and restoration of monarchy.
The same can be said about Russian “absolute monarchy” and revolution. I know that people don’t like communists and revolution in Russia is linked to this, but monarchy was unbelievable shit, not one bit closer to democracy than communism. If anything, it was further in this regard.
Edit: I get the sentiment, but because of this little details picture still looks kinda goofy.
Why is the reign of terror seen as higher point than even Nap III?
It’s mildly weird that it skips over all of Ireland’s rebellions but eh