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"cuz, y'know, China bad." (lemmy.ml)
submitted 6 months ago by to c/memes@lemmy.ml
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[–] -5 points 6 months ago (7 children)

The communist party controls the state, and not everyone is a member.

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

    No just one out of every 14 people, which you may notice is many thousands of times more democratic than any of the western so-called democracies by percentage.

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  • [+] -7 points 6 months ago (5 children)

    So 13 out of 14 people do not belong to the only political coalition (the 8 parties with 700,000 members total don't really count as "opposition parties") that is legally allowed in their country?

    In reference to my original post, we agree that authoritarianism is bad and you are arguing the case that China and the CCP is not authoritarian, correct?

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

    They seem to be doing a pretty good job

    we agree that authoritarianism is bad

    No. We disagree that "authoritarianism" is a meaningful distinction when every government exists by authority. Might as well call it "badguyism"

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  • [+] -7 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    Why do you believe the "democracy perceptions index"?

    Take a look at their supporters... like Palantir and Microsoft.

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  • [–] 10 points 6 months ago

    Oh, two corporate entities tightly bound up with American imperialism and who therefore have every incentive to lie in the opposite direction?

    Like yeah dude, it's a Harvard study, of course they're tangled up in US bourgeoisie shit. If it was a Chinese survey you'd be dismissing it for not being a Harvard study

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  • [–] 9 points 6 months ago

    They have no interest in portraying China positively, when a person or source you mistrust publishes something against their best interest it makes it a lot more likely that it's true (like the CIA saying the USSR was democratic despite being enemies)

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