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[–] 5 points 5 months ago (24 children)

Strange to see China of all places to be societal ahead of everyone else.

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  • [–] 23 points 5 months ago (21 children)

    Not really to be honest. They're an authoritarian regime, but they do a lot of social policies. It's a weird mix but not a new one.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    Turns out when you run a government like a corporation properly, you can think about long-term profits instead of only next quarter. It isn't fully-automated luxury gay space communism, but it's a hell of a lot better than neoliberalism.

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  • [–] 5 points 5 months ago* (1 child)

    Turns out when you run a government like a corporation properly

    This is not what China has done though...

    Stop trying to launder this "run the government like a corporation" garbage

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago

    In the sense that they're maximizing (tax) revenue by investing in infrastructure, maintaining a strict hierarchy, and so on, not the Reaganite destroying it and selling it off for parts.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (16 children)

    It’s not nearly as authoritarian as people like to claim. Chinese citizens hold tens of thousands of protests each year against a wide variety of topics, and the government is legally required to respond to them. As a consequence, the Chinese government is orders of magnitude more responsive to local corruption or abuses of power than almost any western country.

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  • [–] 6 points 5 months ago (15 children)

    It absolutely is. Have a look at the definition of authoritarianism, China checks all the boxes.

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  • [–] -1 points 5 months ago (12 children)

    Literally all governments are definitionally authoritarian, it's a stupid criticism

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (11 children)

    Absolutely not! I encourage you to re-read the definition of authoritarianism and research a bit more about the governments all around the world!

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    Ah! So you consider that every single restriction a country applies makes it authoritarian. Yeah, I don't think you understand authoritarianism, and in today's context, that's dangerous.

    But I won't lose sleep over it!

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  • [–] -2 points 5 months ago (8 children)

    Whichever western shithole nation you're from is complicit in more atrocities and crimes against humanity in the past decade than China has been in a fucking century, you're either an incurable moron or a fed, embarassing either way

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (7 children)

    I'm aware, and yet, that is not what an authoritarian government is... But sure, continue to spread your ignorance and double down with dull insults, that will do a lot!

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  • [–] 0 points 5 months ago (5 children)

    Is this some kind of a weird self-own?

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (4 children)

    Is this a rhetorical question or are you sincerely that stupid?

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  • [–] 0 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    Still he fails to learn. Smh.

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