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[–] 178 points 1 year ago (181 children)

Fun fact: It's actually possible for two countries to both be authoritarian!

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  • [–] 31 points 1 year ago (61 children)

    The US killed a million innocent people in Iraq just a few years ago, and is *currently * drone bombing several countries in ME and north africa, and is currently supporting the apartheid state of israel with billions of dollars in military aid.

    The PRC has not been in a war since its skirmish with Vietnam in 1979.

    The US has a network of > 800 military bases across the globe, and has been involved in regime change in nearly every country.

    Which one is authoritarian?

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  • [–] 24 points 1 year ago (81 children)

    "Authoritarian" is largely a meaningless term. All it really means is one group using force against another group, but it doesn't say anything about which group is which. In the US Empire, the capitalists use the state to crush the workers, and export genocide and chaos to the global south. In the PRC, the working class uses the state to keep the capitalists in check as they progress and develop along socialist lines. This stark difference in which class is in power is shown with immense popular support in the PRC:

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago (7 children)
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    [–] 49 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Libs be like "this is a totally organic movement with broad local support"

    Take a moment to imagine the absolutely demonic levels of McCarthyism that would be unleashed if it was discovered that BLM or the Green Party were headquartered in Beijing.

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  • [–] 22 points 1 year ago*

    Poor analogy. The US kills muslim people like they were rats. The secretary of offense is covered in tattoos glorifying the Medieval crusades and wrote a book titled "American Crusade" explaining the US is in a "holy war" agains muslims and China.

    So "East Turkestan government in exile" is headquartered in the capital of the empire that is is in a bloodthirsthy fanatical war against muslims. This empire also has "must destroy China" as its foreign policy absolute priority.

    Therefore, the corret analogy would be a separatist Jewish movement that wanted to take away a critical part of the USSR. And it is funded and headquartered in Nazi Germany. Who would believe them? The same people who believe the US is motivated by love of Muslims and only reluctantly funds a separatist movement to take away a critical part of China.

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    [–] 38 points 1 year ago

    China is indeed authoritarian, rich people cannot shape society however they want in China.

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  • [–] 38 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Responding to a federated comment because I don't have a .ml account:

    Okay, but we are talking about a country where you aren’t allowed to form a political party that opposes the CCP, right?

    There are eight other parties in the People's Republic of China other than the *CPC

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    [–] 35 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

    US is in a situation where even the Chinese government can make fun of how undemocratic it is. I think this explains a lot.

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    [–] 33 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    This is your brain on black-and-white thinking

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    [–] 27 points 1 year ago (20 children)

    I just gotta pop in and say: thank you, comrades, for absolutely making my morning by dunking on some capitalists' useful idiots.

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    [–] 22 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Freedom with the most people in prison

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