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"China is AuThORItAriAN!" - Liberals (europe.pub)
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[–] 80 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (59 children)

When will Westerners realize that the common characture of the brainwashed, thought controlled, information controlled, constantly surveiled citizen that we attribute to China/The USSR/etc... IS US?! You clutch your pearls at people in other countries potentially being treated like that but are inclined to do nothing about OUR OWN countries treating US like that.

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  • [–] 68 points 6 months ago

    A Russian is on an airliner heading to the US, and the American in the seat next to him asks, “So what brings you to the US?” The Russian replies, “I’m studying the American approach to propaganda.” The American says, “What propaganda?” The Russian says, “That’s what I mean.”

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  • [–] 46 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    Snowden showed they realized but didn't care

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  • [+] -10 points 6 months ago (54 children)

    You can be against US and Chinese fascism simultaneously.

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  • [–] 16 points 6 months ago (19 children)

    In what way is China fascist? It's a socialist country, public ownership is the principle aspect of the economy and the working classes control the state.

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  • [+] -9 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    Authoritarianism, violent oppression of minorites and dissenting movements, deeply ingrained surveillance state with state censorship.

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  • [–] 15 points 6 months ago

    China does not violently oppress minorities, and wielding state authority, censorship, and surveilance against capitalists and fascists is necessary for a socialist state, and doesn't make it fascist. Fascism is capitalism violently defending itself from decay and solidifying bourgeois control, not proletarian.

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