• BrainInABox@lemmy.ml
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    13 hours ago

    Obligatory “but at what cost!”

    And Chinese citizens consistently poll as being more satisfied with their election options and outcomes than Americans. Honestly, when you’re at the point where you’re saying that China is authoritarian but worlds largest prison state USA isn’t, you’re basically just giving up the game that you’re using the word as a euphemism for “non-western”

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      37 minutes ago

      Chinese citizens consistently poll as being more satisfied with their election options and outcomes than Americans. Honestly

      “What’s it like living in North Korea?” “Can’t complain”

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      6 hours ago

      Lol did you even read my comment? I specifically said the US democracy is crumbling. Three guesses as to what democracy crumbles into.

      But yeah OK, China is a great democracy, go ahead and vote out the CCP. I’ll wait.

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        4 hours ago

        Funny how it’s always “crumbling” but never actually crumbled. Non-western countries are full on authoritarian, but western countries are only ever “maybe heading in that direction, possibly” even when they do even worse shit than China ever did.

        Why role I vote out the CPC? It’s incredibly fucking telling that your idea of “democracy” is an incredibly popular party being removed from power because westerners don’t like them. Chinese citizens absolutely could vote them out if they wanted, but the in the western white supremacists idea of democracy, only the opinion of westerners matters.

        How about you go ahead and vote out capitalist parties in the West, if they’re such great democracies?