• FlyingCircus@lemmy.world
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    6 hours ago

    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 hours ago

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

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        4 hours ago

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

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          3 hours ago

          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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              3 hours ago

              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 hours ago

                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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                  2 hours ago

                  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!