• TheJesusaurus@piefed.ca
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    14 hours ago

    China is an authoritarian dictatorship, so if it does anything right that really doesn’t matter.

    Not that the US are better but what a wild stance to just decide to take unprompted

    • mrdown@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      10 hours ago

      The usa is a democracy that is responsible of ton of coups, creation of failed states and murder of millions of people all over the world

        • Maeve@kbin.earth
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          12 hours ago

          China is quite possibly less authoritarian than Western governments. All states have and use authority. Better it’s used for the citizens’ housing, health, food, transportation needs than Elon and Bezos.

          Edit: also while discussing authoritarianism, perhaps check the thread title and read the article. This is what Western authoritianism is for and spends.

          • TheJesusaurus@piefed.ca
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            12 hours ago

            Authoritarianism is when people are allowed to petition the government with their grievances

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              12 hours ago

              Way to deliberately miss the point. The point is ethnonationalism and genocide and apologia/encouragement.

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                7 hours ago

                Yes China does all of those things. Really awesome to see you’ve challenged your own flawed reality so quickly 😄