[dist-epoch]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mao_Zedong:

> Mao's policies were responsible for a vast number of deaths, with estimates ranging from 40 to 80 million victims due to starvation, persecution, prison labour, and mass executions, and his government has been described as totalitarian.

I guess according to you killing your own people shouldn't be counted.

[WhackyIdeas]

Surveillance on internet use in China probably results in many visits to forced labour camps. Or worse.

Imagine the Chinese people agreed and voted for their great firewall, wouldn’t we all think they were fooled into sabotaging their own freedom?

But they never had the chance to oppose it. We do. And so who are the real dummies.

With how popular Trump is in the states, that makes me think dictatorship is just around the corner. Settling scores is coming.

[tekknik]

Interesting you claim Trump is a dictator, you must’ve forgotten the attempts by the left here to remove parts of our constitution, including for free speech and consistently remove freedoms when one person screws it up. Another example, every car having interlock devices.

[cherryteastain]

Mao Zedong's CCP is as relevant to the present discussion as say Adolf Hitler, US treatment of Native Americans or British/French/Spanish colonialism. All awful, yet not awfully relevant.

[zirgs]

NSDAP hasn't been in power in Germany for like 80 years now. Meanwhile Mao's CCP is still in power and they haven't disowned him.