• LarmyOfLone@lemm.ee
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    14 hours ago

    China is authoritarian, but if you look only at the material conditions for democracy like prosperity, peace, education they are better than the US. People fundamentally want to exist and raise families in peace without constant terror, confusion and economic hardship. That is because even they are authoritarian, they can still “afford” to have pro-human or pro-national ideology. In the neoliberal countries choosing that over profit gets you fired or sidelined.

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      3 hours ago

      The US is more authoritarian, if anything, especially if you live in a country that’s been on the receiving end of its foreign policy.

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      Being authoritarian is exactly what makes them good. When media talks about China authoritarianism, they’re talking from the perspective of capitalists, not average people. Capitalists hold no political power in China and that’s why western media it’s upset, because they can’t influence their policy through money. If western media cared about the material conditions of the average Chinese people, they would be chanting praise for the massive uplifting that China has went through the last 50 years.

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      5 hours ago

      if I’m from, say, Ghana, I’m judging China based on how China affects Ghanaian people, not on how China affects Chinese people

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          The Chinese people do not exist in a state of peace with the CCP that is one of the many reasons why there has been a rush of Chinese citizens leaving the country. The pandemic really exposed to the world how destructive and nefarious the CCP is. First they denied it started in China, followed by a weak attempt to blame foreigners for covid-19. And ended with the CCP welding peope into their homes, allowing citizens to literally starve to death.

          While the Chinese government pushes a very nationalistic message, It really isn’t pro-human in the slightest. The CCP top brass has been content to exploit the poverty of its populace in order to enrich themselves.

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            42 minutes ago

            https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2020/07/long-term-survey-reveals-chinese-government-satisfaction/

            The survey team found that compared to public opinion patterns in the U.S., in China there was very high satisfaction with the central government. In 2016, the last year the survey was conducted, 95.5 percent of respondents were either “relatively satisfied” or “highly satisfied” with Beijing. In contrast to these findings, Gallup reported in January of this year that their latest polling on U.S. citizen satisfaction with the American federal government revealed only 38 percent of respondents were satisfied with the federal government.

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            3 hours ago

            Least delusional western man right here 😂 yea, the “CCP” is evil for being the most successful nation in dealing with the covid pandemic while good ol’ free murica had 10x deaths with 5x less population.