I like how a bunch of different retards throughout history looked at ancient Athens as some bastion of humanity and liberty and good governance and basically wanted to replicate it (or, at least, their weird idea of it) when basically every single Athenian worth a damn from Socrates to Pericles talked about how dogshit it was. Plato even went so far as to say that democracy is thr second worst form of governance, just a step away from tyranny.

The fact that if Athens even were to somehow manifest itself in the modern era, none of the western nations in the world would even consider it a "real" democracy (despite literally being a direct democracy) because, you know, they were basically the taliban if the taliban also allowed slavery.