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by A_D_E_P_T 534 days ago
> more indicative of the downsides of authoritarianism

Look at the trends and think about what you're saying. What you're calling "authoritarianism" (very vaguely defined) has brought order from chaos. I don't know if there's a single large American city that is now safer than Beijing. Sure, things were different in 1960. "The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there."