Your argument is that 1.4 billion people are too stupid or uneducated to …

No.

despite making up the world’s largest economy

Not an indicator for “democratic”.

The people in China support their system because it works.

Well, my view is: They can’t change the system, even if they want to. Their “democracy” (if you want to call it like that) does not offer changing anything that CCP want to have. The people on Tiananmen Square for example did not support the system and… You know… Let’s connect that with the point above: I don’t think, people in China are well educated about that event for some reason…

Or, you can go directly to Chinese state media explaining it themselves.

I have never in my life seen a Tiktok style CCP propaganda video before, so it was quite… (I don’t know which word to put here)… But yeah, if you tell it to your population like that, they might actually think, that they live in a democracy, although even the video makes clear that ONE party in actually the one in power.

I think, the main reasons why people don’t try to lean up against the government is: Because it is very risky and because of some great economic progress during the last decades that moved many people out of poverty, but that does not make the country democratic.

With “I have different views” or “I have a reason to not like country XY and it is …”, you can achieve a conversation with someone about it. By burning flags or sending that action as emoji, you are just making sure to end the conversation as quickly as possible or to even prevent it completely.

If you take some time and ask on the streets, you will find a person who has a really good reason to hate a country and you can achieve this for all countries on the planet. And if they start to burn a flag on the streets right on front of a random person, that random person will probably think “What a f*cking idiot”.

And it’s quite ironic that you write a **3 pages long text **about the usage of a burning-flag-emoji and how it could be interpreted. If you want your view to be interpreted “correctly”, then why posting 1 single burning flag in the first place instead of writing what you actually want to say??? It’s like showing someone the middle finger and afterwards, I talk an hour with that person and explain them the long story that their dad and I once had a conflict.

When you asked a question about the Uyghurs, and then connected it to the “Jewish Question” based on how I worded my response. That’s dishonest.

Oh, you meant it like that. I actually interpreted it as “The Uyghurs question”, like some narrative like “The Taiwan question”.

Do you think Chinese people oppose democracy

I think, Chinese people are blasted with lots of propaganda, so I would not even wonder me. But if you can make the people think that they live in a democracy, it’s of course not necessary to make it look bad…

Great… You have successfully criticised one of the rankings I posted. Do you have a different one that is better according to you? I’d even accept a pro Chinese one, I’d like to see it and also to see the criteria used by yours…

Economist at least makes them transparent:

    electoral process and pluralism (12 indicators)
    functioning of government (14 indicators)
    political participation (9 indicators)
    political culture (8 indicators)
    civil liberties (17 indicators)

You know what, “comerade”… Feel free to continue uncritically supporting North Korea (whatever than means) and good luck with your “death to XY” attitude… How can you expect anyone to take that serious?

there are separate worldviews than yours

Yes, and between black and white, there is a huge gray area. You should try it out.

Best regards The “pearl clutching liberal nerd”

Would be redundant…

Yeah, my bad… I should have entered a high quality discussion with someone who uses burning flags for communication. Damn… Probably, I’m missing out… 😅

Putin or Russia? That’s quite a difference. And how many of them contain a burning flag or a burning Putin? Feel free to look it up…

You asked a literal question, that’s incredibly dishonest.

What exactly?

That’s a survey (quite subjective), but the results is of course interesting. I expected “democracy” to be seen as “bad stuff form the west”…

It also has a disclaimer in the text:

A note accompanying the poll results offers a disclaimer, stating that “in authoritarian countries, positive perceptions might result from different conceptions of democracy, high levels of government satisfaction, or fear of speaking out against the government.”

Would be interesting to see such a survey in Russia or North Korea.

With “entity that classifies or ranks democracies”, I meant something like this (a more object classification of democracies based on some criteria):

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Economist_Democracy_Index
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_Ranking

You forgot some quotes around “re-education”.

Uigur question sounds like “Jew question”, which the Nazis named that way and tried to “solve” at the Wannseekonferenz…

Is there even one entity that classifies or ranks democracies that sees China as an actual democracy? If yes, please give me a link. We all know that China is a one party country. If you disagree with the government, you can be open about it and go to “re-education” 🙃. Alternative: You shut up about it, which is probably what most people do.

What do I have to do with US?

Most democracy rankings rank it as flawed democracy anyway. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Economist_Democracy_Index

What’s the imprisonment quote of Uigurs in China by the way?

your mom.

lol, yeah, let’s act like it did not happen. I’d try to find it and post you a link, but my comment was removed by the very brave moderators who did not do anything against the extremism and made sure that there was no criticism.

The word was “destruction” and that was described as “based”.

Imagine being angry enough about a country to post its flag burning over and over again…

Thanks for the explanation.

China, on the other hand, is a democracy. It’s not a liberal democracy, but the people have a direct influence on how their society is run

Yeah. Even, if you disagree with the government, because then, you can still be democratic in jail…

You’re talking about Hexbear being pro-Palestinian and anti-Zionist as though they are anti-semetic and wish extermination on Jewish people.

No, I’m talking about people from there literally suggesting to wipe out Israel… That very innovative idea hasn’t worked for the last 80 years and won’t in the next 80 years. That’s as intelligent as suggesting to wipe out the other side. I am not interested in that kind of content.

not interested in that.

Nice one, troll…

Is that the response of the prompt “Hey ChatGPT (or probably Deepseek, sorry), I have some views. Please make them look as radical as possible”?

Uncritical support for North Korea

lol, that says something…

Pretty much all my experiences with that instance and similar ones have been disgusting.

Pushing people who post burning flags of a country and posts about it to be fully wiped out are accepted… Criticism regarding this gets your comment remove and a ban from the community.

I don’t need that again. Where can I block this pseudo-left pro-authoritarian instance in Voyager?

All my experiences with that instance and similar ones have been disgusting.

Pushing people who post burning flags of a country and posts about it to be fully wiped out are accepted… Criticism regarding this gets your comment remove and a ban from the community.

I don’t need that again. Where can I block those pseudo-left pro-authoritarians instance?