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"cuz, y'know, China bad." (lemmy.ml)
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[–] 26 points 6 months ago (51 children)

authoritarians

Thought terminating cliche used by the unintelligent and uninformed to avoid reckoning with reality beyond vibes.

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  • [+] -6 points 6 months ago (50 children)

    "non authoritarian governments are known to implement mass firewalls and online surveillance"

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  • [–] 30 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

    Every country should be blocking the US surveillance giants, its extremely naive for countries to be letting facebook, twitter, reddit, and google operate unhindered.

    There' no such thing as a "non-authoritarian" state or other myths like the tooth-fairy, but even if they existed, then it'd be hard to argue that letting the US surveillance state operate freely within your borders is somehow "non-authoritarian". The US is more likely than any other country to use the intelligence they've gained learned to harm you physically. See the Phoenix Program.

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  • [–] 24 points 6 months ago* (11 children)

    Literally every government with the capability to control information is doing that, and frankly the rise of bleach-injecting covid denialist flat earth tradwife inflluencers has proven China right to do so.

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  • [+] -10 points 6 months ago (10 children)

    From Merriam-Webster

    " of authoritarian

    1 relating to, or favoring blind submission to [authority].

    2 relating to, or favoring a concentration of power in a leader or an elite not constitutionally responsible to the people

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  • [–] 26 points 6 months ago* (8 children)

    So like, objectively not China? Because their ruling party consists of 90 million members and they're constantly debating shit, and enjoy an incredibly high satisfaction rate among non-party members?

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  • [+] -6 points 6 months ago (6 children)

    Would a non-aurhoritarian government be able to institute a one-child policy like China?

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  • [–] 18 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (5 children)

    Yes, of course they could. Individual people make the decision to practice birth control every day, and a vast democratic assembly of millions voted in by their peers can make that decision as well. Meanwhile in the US, reproductive policy is dictated by nine unelected ministers: an objectively far less democratic process, yet our media never describes the US government as "authoritarian." Because it's not a term meant to usefully delineate important differences in form and function, it's a vibes based epithet meant to be wielded against geopolitical enemies of capitalism. It's a thought-terminating cliche, deployed highly selectively against anti-imperialist societies to artificially cast proletarian authority as uniquely evil while tacticly normalizing the authority of billionaires and corporations.

    In practice, authoritarianism is when you are objectively more democratic in function and policy than western countries, but commit the cardinal sin of using that authority to safeguard your sovereignty, people and resources from the inhumanity of global capitalism.

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  • [+] -12 points 6 months ago (4 children)

    Yes, but those are entirely voluntary. The point is that a government should have no say in reproduction whatsoever. That is why campaigns to change the cratering birthrate have failed.

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  • [–] 20 points 6 months ago* (3 children)

    That's cool that you can have that opinion from your position of being one doordash order away from having food to eat, but if you were an elected representative of a society that had to build itself up under seige after a century of colonial pillaging and a world war that devastated your economic and food infrastructure and killed millions of people, you might actually have to engage with the brutal reality of famine and underdevelopment, with the unavoidable questions of survival. If the Palestinian Resistance manages to secure it's territory to administer, they will have to engage with these questions too. If and when that happens, will you simply write them off as "authoritarian", and dismiss those who support their struggle as "simping for authoritarians"?

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  • [+] -9 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    Lol such a tired argument. If you get to fucking assume shit about others (aka build a strawman) then the rest of us get to do it to you.

    You’re not even worth giving the time to read that whole thing. The moment you clapped off about fucking doordash you made yourself irrelevant.

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  • [–] 7 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

    You have no response to the fact that the work of building society requires engagement with reality, so would rather attack the person pointing it out on the grounds of some imaginary debate rules. Your desire to avpid thinking about the actual conditions of reality is transparent and cripples your ability to understand the world and why things happen in it.

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  • [–] 15 points 6 months ago (36 children)

    You clearly don't understand the purpose of the firewall and the online surveillance is no more than any other country but at least our government is accountable to us as opposed to owned by capital.

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  • [–] 17 points 6 months ago* (17 children)

    I was born and raised here. The VPN is for the firewall which has many reasons to exist and I support, also they're not illegal. Criticising the government is super common but mostly over mundane stuff because that's what people care about (there's a reason the approval even according to Harvard is 95+%). You people are always so arrogant while being so uninformed it's amazing.

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  • [+] -12 points 6 months ago (16 children)

    Making a statement that online surveillance there is no different from elsewhere will get you that kind of response tbh. It is measurably worse.

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  • [–] 16 points 6 months ago* (14 children)

    It simply isn't. Remember snowden? The NSA? TAO? Pegasus? Our government is simply more open and honest with us (might be a side effect of having real democracy as opposed to a charade put on by bought candidates every 4 years). Also before you say that's just America, Europe are American vassal states all of these and more (since this is just what has leaked) are deployed against Europeans too and intel is shared in deals like five eyes.

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  • [–] 14 points 6 months ago* (13 children)

    The method of voting isn't what makes it real democracy it's the class content of the state and the fact that voting is a ritual for representatives that will only ever serve capital as opposed to voting being a single part of a daily system of feedback and interaction with deputies embedded in the grassroots situation who need accomplishments (to solve our problems) to go for higher offices. There's a reason the number of billionaires in China is shrinking while public services and social safety nets are constantly seeing investment while in Europe and America austerity for the masses and tax cuts for the rich is law.

    End to end encrypted

    Nice vibes based analysis sort of redundant when they have backdoors on every piece of technology deployed there or the fact that most end to end encrypted messages are some mix of lying and insecure like WhatsApp.

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  • [–] 13 points 6 months ago (6 children)

    I use signal and I’m free to. I’m confident it’s secure. Confident enough that my wife can send me a titty pic without someone looking at it.

    I hate to break it to you but if the government want to see that titty pic if it's on either of your phones or any other device they can and likely have.

    You call out a straw man about it being back doored when you’ve no idea that’s the case but we’re certain it is in China.

    Again remember snowden? If you live in the western hemisphere the US and Israeli intelligence apparatus owns all of your tech that's the unfortunate truth you need to reckon with.

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  • [–] 11 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    You fundamentally disagree because you're a chauvinist and an idiot

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  • [–] 12 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    It's clearly true you are just stating things that are untrue but you feel must be because you are a chauvinist. And you are an idiot as you look past the very clearly documented history of the EuroAmerikan surveillance apparatus and pretend it's not real and if it is real it's bound by your laws etc etc. Hence you are a chauvinist and an idiot.

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  • [–] 12 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    Fallacy fallacy. So epic owned. Fucking loser Reddit debate bro. Genuinely impressively arrogant while being so uninformed and apparently genuinely unintelligent.

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  • [–] 9 points 6 months ago (5 children)

    Projection: Rare vance incident, usa.

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  • [–] 8 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    Bring it on. Disprove the rare vance incident, or prove your bullshit claims about WeChat. If you can do neither, it's a clear case of projection.

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  • [–] 11 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    I didn't ask you to prove anything about e2e. I asked you to prove that "something bad happens to you when you use pgp in WeChat"

    Read about the rare vance incident, what happened there was pretty much what you were so insistent on would happen in china. That's why I assumed you were projecting.

    Maybe you were not projecting, that's ok. Maybe you read it in a fiction book. Or it came to you in a dream. Who knows, you certainly won't tell me.

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  • [–] 16 points 6 months ago* (12 children)

    You are literally talking to a Chinese person from China, smug liberal dipshittery knows no bounds

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  • [+] -13 points 6 months ago* (11 children)

    Then they fit the second part, living in ignorance. Online surveillance there is measurably worse.

    Edit: just for clarity, I'm not "china bad" in my worldview but claims they their online surveillance is the same as elsewhere is utter nonsense and either from ignorance or indoctrination.

    You think they're posting on Lemmy without a VPN?

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  • [–] 14 points 6 months ago (10 children)

    The firewall was created to foster and protect China’s fledgling digital infrastructure and data sovereignty. Many countries regulate foreign platforms and data flows. China built its own ecosystem instead of depending on foreign companies. We have seen what happens when foreign platforms operate without local oversight: Facebook facilitating genocide in Myanmar, coordinated anti-vax disinformation campaigns in Southeast Asia, algorithm-driven radicalization. The firewall makes those kinds of external influence operations harder or close to impossible to run at scale. I support it and so do many others as the alternative is plain to see. Also everyone has a VPN we're not living in ignorance it is in fact people like yourself who are massively ignorant about us and our country.

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  • [–] 12 points 6 months ago (9 children)

    Ive been to your country. Many times. The ignorance call out holds no weight for me. I’ve lived the online surveillance and lack of access to sites or services I wanted. Hell even SSH connections are speed limited and frequently get a TCP reset to mess with them. Why? Because they can tunnel HTTP traffic.

    The firewall again isn't a surveillance tool it's a blacklist that protects us from the very clear worse option which is a US controlled digital infrastructure. Also you vacationing here really doesn't do much to assuage ignorance. Plenty of EuroAmerikans vacation across developing countries and are still massively ignorant on how they actually functions. I'd go a step further and say most EuroAmerikans don't even know how their own country really functions as "lived experience" is only a small part of the puzzle.

    It’s not just surveillance, it’s control. you continuously avoid talking about how end to end encryption is not an option

    I'm assuming the choice of the word continuously is an artefact from an LLM considering end to end encryption was only brought up once. Also I very clearly didn't avoid talking about it I simply pointed out that the most common ones such as WhatsApp are mostly a mix of insecure software and lies, also are largely irrelevant considering the NSA backdoors on every piece of deployed tech in the western hemisphere

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  • [–] 11 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    You’re making assumptions about back doors in all Western tech.

    It's not an assumption it's proven real

    PRISM: Allowed the NSA to access data from major tech companies, including emails, documents, and photos.

    XKeyscore: Enables the NSA to analyze global internet data, making it easy to track individuals' online activities.

    Tempora: The UK’s GCHQ tapped fiber-optic cables to collect vast amounts of data, sharing it with the NSA.

    Boundless Informant: A data visualization tool that documented the NSA's global data collection effort.

    All revealed by snowden. If you think that they stopped any of this or this was all they were doing you are so incredibly naive it's amazing you lived past 12.

    All I can say is cope.

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  • [–] 8 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    I have no issues with people using llms to help them format and formulate responses into coherent comments I just think it's important to read over the output carefully hence I responded to the points while still pointing out it made some common llm errors that he must not have noticed. Why are you so aggressive?

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  • [–] 13 points 6 months ago

    I don't work for the government. I do however have friends who are party members (shouldn't be surprising considering slightly over 1/14 people are) and I did work alongside the CPPCC for a period and many of my classmates from my master's in Marxist theory were doing it to work towards civil servant positions. Even besides all that I interact with my local party office fairly regularly to provide feedback as do many others.

    You can check the modlog or DM the mods and ask I'm not a mod I also didn't report them so your guess is as good as mine.

    I very clearly didn't dismiss any of his points I just pointed out that continuously didn't make sense considering we only brought encryption up once prior to this comment and I had responded to it at that time I didn't dodge I also then responded to the point at hand again anyway so idk why you're lashing out. I didn't dismiss him.

    This is just typical chauvinist dehumanising bullshit. "Anyone who doesn't accept the western line on China is a bot or a paid shill" you should probably do some introspection on why you react so violently to a Chinese person providing a more accurate view of their country.

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  • [–] 10 points 6 months ago

    why the fuck are the mods removing the replies to you?

    Check the modlog, we can still see the comments if we want to, and they state the reasons for removal there.

    Most of the time something gets removed because of bigotry or being an asshole (I've seen people the mods agree with also have their comments removed when being too inflammatory, just so you know).

    “Ohhhhh” points “must be an llm!!! (Now we can all dismiss them! Convenient!”

    The LLM accusation was after a rebuttal, and then followed by another point, not an excuse to avoid engagement. You can't be for real.

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  • [–] 8 points 6 months ago

    You people have fully become the cold war boomers that everyone made fun of in the 90s. If someone has anything positive or informative to say about ZE DESIGNATED ENEMY, you immediately freak out and start calling them a spy. It's such 12 year old behavior, the defense of a wounded imperial ego.

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  • [–] 0 points 6 months ago (4 children)

    Are they accountable to you or to party members?

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  • [–] 21 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    To us. There's a reason that even from Harvard's research the government has a 95+% approval.

    Direct elections reach the township and county levels where voters choose deputies to local people's congresses. These grassroots deputies constitute the overwhelming majority of all deputies nationwide. Advancement to higher levels requires proven service at lower rungs, ensuring every national deputy has worked up from local material conditions and remains accountable to the masses below.

    Grassroots legislative liaison stations and community consultation channels ensure mass input shapes policy at every stage, making democracy a daily practice not a periodic (meaningless) ritual. Whole-process people's democracy embeds consultation and pilot programs into governance: policies are tested locally, refined through mass feedback, then scaled nationally. This grounds decisions in what we want and need.

    All 55 ethnic minorities hold guaranteed representation in the NPC. Farmers and labourers comprise roughly 15% of deputies while professionals and technical personnel make up the remainder.

    Even besides all that if you just look at what the Chinese government does as opposed to those owned by capital. Mass poverty alleviation, anticorruption at all levels, massive investment in socially profitable but monetarily unprofitable public services, deflating the housing bubble. These are not the actions of a government only looking out for a select few.

    And also the CPC has over 100million members since 2024 that 1 in 14 people are party members not to mind those who aren't but are active in consulting due to their position such as most engineers and scientists.

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  • [–] -4 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    You should be skeptical of any poll or survey that presents that level of agreement on anything with that breadth of societal implications.

    How do you square the whole Hong Kong protests in regards to the extradition laws? Or the aggression towards Taiwan?

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  • [–] 7 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    Just because the anglosphere is a socioeconomic nightmare realm of genocide, immiseration and omnipresent propaganda where everyone is at each other's throats doesn't mean everywhere else is too.

    What you're saying is you want to be suspicious of data that paints other places in a better light than us, because it makes you feel bad. You then rationalize this desire as "wisdom" while continuing to apply it selectively against societies your government has told you to hate.

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  • [+] -7 points 6 months ago

    Oh, I assure you, I have no red tinted glasses for my home. We are run by a decaying orange pedophile and his fascist sycophants.

    That means I'm less inclined to trade one set of unaccountable "elites" for another just because they don't like each other.

    China is a state capitalist society that has the very same problem the US does. Overproduction of a group of "elites (parasites)" that need more and more power and wealth so they can get more power and more wealth.

    Chinas actions towards the HK protestors and towards Taiwan indicates they are imperialist, which is a non starter for me already.

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