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by BurningFrog 214 days ago
Not only that, they can ignore their laws and disappear/kill you whenever they feel like it.

They're not killing their own people by the millions like in Mao's days, but it's still a brutal dictatorship when it wants to be.
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underlipton 214 days ago
Oh, we do that, too. And we also don't protect our own in other countries.
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skinnymuch 214 days ago
Chinese people lives are getting better and they largely are on the same page. Meanwhile the US has DEI in the govt while the govt says DEI is bad. Minority authoritarian rule in the US with the Senate.

The US is a brutal dictatorship all the time.

China thankfully has a govt that is on the same page as the people.

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wiseowise 214 days ago
Obvious troll or just mentally sick.

Country with social credit, LLMs that have a seizure at "Tiananment square", Winnie the Pooh and Taiwan, Great firewall, cultural genocide of Uyghurs is a country where "lives are getting better" while US is a brutal dictatorship, my fucking sides.

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tgma 214 days ago
Is that so? I have not surveyed the Chinese, but will not be surprised if the approval was higher than you'd imagine. If anything, the core ideas of communism have clear demand in the west and people are voting for them when they are shown with a lipstick on top.
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wiseowise 214 days ago
> I have not surveyed the Chinese but will not be surprised if the approval was higher than you'd imagine. If anything, the core ideas have clear demand in the west and people are voting for them when they are shown with a lipstick on top.

Ask other dictatorships while you're at it. Systems so great one wonders why stupid democracies haven't adopted the model still.

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tgma 214 days ago
You're weasling your way out of the core point. I'm in no way advocating for such ideas. Quite the opposite. I'm just saying unless you have data about this you shouldn't rely on your instincts. There are many nuances around this and economic prosperity can mask huge other issues.

> Ask other dictatorships while you're at it.

In fact, I have observed immigrants from certain failed states that you refer to as "dictatorships." In many cases they say they hate their government yet they vote for mostly the same policies when they are given the chance to do so in the West, so again, even surveying them directly with a lazy question "do you like the government in country X" won't get you to the spirit of the answer.

To wit, you also just fell for the common fallacy of assuming dictatorship is the opposite of democracy. They are much more alike than you'd think. Democracy isn't liberty.

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