• thesporkeffect@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    I don’t respect any authoritarian but I appreciate that China at least has some leverage over their billionaires

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      7 months ago

      We need a state with a certain amount of authority if we want to prevent those billionaires to become the authoritarians, though.

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      7 months ago

      Ditto. China is presenting an alternative to liberal democracy, and I’m afraid they might have a chance at propagating it to the rest of the world if this continues.

      Edit: oh yes, I did not realise I am in lemmy.ml. Of course there are tankie whack jobs.

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                Imagine have having to go back 45 years and multiple administration, to an event where rioters were burning police alive, to find an example of the government cracking down too hard on criticism.

                You sure as shit don’t have to do that in America.

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                    7 months ago

                    It’s amazing how meaningless the word “whataboutism” is when mentioning America in a conversation explicitly about comparing America and China is considered it.

                    Also, I’d love to hear what lie you think I fabricated.

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          7 months ago

          As if there isn’t one party ruling China for 70 years, lol. And as if China wasn’t doing their own genocide on Uyghurs and Tibetans. And sure, tell me China isn’t doing anything egregious.

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            7 months ago

            Anyone still trying to pedal the “secret Uyghur genocide” nonsense at this point, long after the Western media has given up on it, and with Isreal showing us what an actual genocide of a captive Muslim population looks like, is either knowingly lying or terminally brainwashed.

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              Is it possible for both things to happen at once?

              Anyone still trying to pedal the “secret Uyghur genocide” nonsense at this point, long after the Western media has given up on it

              “Shut up! We are no longer talking about it! So why do you remember? Pay attention to somewhere else so we can continue with our own oppression!”

              A tankie everyone.

              You must the be the appointed glorified CCP receptionist to be prowling and answering anti-CCP comments in this instance.