That's three completely different universes of experience in one family, sitting around the same dinner table: from famine to facial recognition in 75 years.
The way ppl write about China is infuriating, needlessly condescending. My regime would be locking people up for blogs in iron maidens.
In just 75 years we've gone from a nation with jobs and sitting cross legged in front of the radio to a nation with no jobs and televisions that spy on you
I noticed “famines killed 30 million people” and thought the writer probably has brainworms, then the end with “authoritarianism muh 
” confirmed it.
Free speech is so fuckin great it's why I can walk around telling everyone I'm a communist and suffer no negative repercussions
It's worth it to have this freedom, so much so that I'm willing to sacrifice not living in fear of getting shot, universal healthcare or really, any infrastructure
The freedom to have to look all around to see if I'm being watched before I want to kiss my partner in public. Love it.
And washing it down with liberal tears 
EDIT: lol the replies are pure liberal idealism
China faces the same issue as any other authoritarian nation. It's only as good as it's leadership. A benign dictator may well be the most effective form of governance, yet so few dictators are in fact benign. On a long enough timeline, all dictatorships degrade into graft and systemic human rights abuse.
It's taken precisely one nationalistic 'president for life' to strip China of it's emerging civil liberties, turn the nation inward, enormously increase xenophobia and create a prison camp from an entire region (Xinjiang). Where is the freedom of movement, let alone economic success for rural Chinese who cannot freely travel within the country, and need state approval to apply for a passport?
Perhaps China seems so appealing because the United States is so evidently failing as a state. But if there is hope for the future, it should be in systems which decrease power distance, not those that deify glorious leaders.
It's taken precisely one nationalistic 'president for life' to strip China of it's emerging civil liberties, turn the nation inward, enormously increase xenophobia and create a prison camp from an entire region
Oh look they're accusing China of the US's crimes again. Aside from the civil liberties part, the US never had those.
Civil liberties to these ghouls has always meant "we might be homeless and can't afford lettuce but at least we can say the president is bad"
Americans pride themselves on their freedom of speech because it is the only freedom they have
Not sure if you live here but we really don't even have that.
The one freedom we have is the freedom to exploit.
any other authoritarian nation
legitimate governments: us and our vassals
illegitimate governments: everyone else
The “international community” map
state approval to apply for a passport
What does this person think passports are lol
It's funny that everyone is saying that the US lost its mojo, but nobody with power actually wants the US to actually have any mojo. It would involve the capitalists sacrificing their wealth in order to actually develop stuff I guess.
Of course the US is still great at advanced technologies. Launching lots of rockets, doing fancy scientific research, designing integrated circuits, and so on. But that stuff mostly matters for military imperialist stuff, it doesn't always come to the US directly in the form of improvements to quality of life.
It's okay, once the US launches the Third World War and wins it, we'll have free healthcare and all that.
Eat me 
please I'm begging 
lol first they took away scrubbing, now you can't even listen without an account
yt-dlp can still download the whole shebang though in like 10s so they didn't even do a good job of it
comments are either CIA or CIA brain
the post itself is too. anyone that uses "authoritarianism" unironically has CIA brain.
any other authoritarian nation
let's assume this is true. What did Western democracy give us? genocide and more genocide.
Hey now, every once in a while they stopped doing genocide to build infrastructure (the infrastructure was for genociding more profitably)
Hey 'Xi' jinping. BITE ME 
Do you think the dragon's belly is like a Zelda dungeon ala Jabu Jab?
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