Israel has these things too. Doesn't excuse its leadership of their crimes
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no it doesn't.
it doesn't count if it only applies to a select subgroup.
Ok, and Gaddafi's policies were only for the political subgroup of people who supported him, as you'd be imprisoned or worse otherwise?
Troll grade: C-.
Most countries in the world already get this without having to have gadafi as a leader.
Not to carry water for Gaddafi, but do they? Gestures at Western housing crisis.
You can have subsidized housing, free education and free healthcare and still have a housing crisis.
The housing crisis is largely a consequence of NIMBYism and also the result of centralisation which leads to more and more people wanting to live in a certain area while others get neglected. Even if you built a million new apartments in new York within a year, you'd have a couple of million more people live there but the housing situation would be just as dire. Meanwhile there are millions of empty houses in places with less demand.
I mean, the Nazis had universal healthcare too...
The fucked up thing, is that is an incredibly low bar, and most dictators understand that they need at least some citizens healthy and educated to able to work to pay taxes.
So yeah...
A lot of horrible authoritarians who commit daily human rights abuses, still give some of their citizens healthcare and a good education.
I feel that more people should know that Gaddafi was a mass child rapist who had a personal corpse freezer.
Also, while NATO and Qatar backed the anti-Gaddafi forces, they didn't create those forces.
Some of those forces were Gaddafi's own military, who refused to follow Gaddafi's order to crack down on protesters.
I mean, this was a rebel fighter. You'd kinda expect those guys to hate Gaddafi.
the post is about how the news article seems to equate or correlate free healthcare and housing with autocratic goverments
It doesn't, though. It's drawing a contrast between the two and explaining the context behind remarks made by the military president of Burkina Faso. It's the BBC, it's the state-funded news of a country that has universal healthcare