• iglou@programming.dev
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      9 hours ago

      Not really to be honest. They’re an authoritarian regime, but they do a lot of social policies. It’s a weird mix but not a new one.

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        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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          4 hours ago

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

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            2 hours ago

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

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              1 hour 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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                  43 minutes 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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                    14 minutes 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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        8 hours ago

        Turns out when you run a government like a corporation properly, you can think about long-term profits instead of only next quarter. It isn’t fully-automated luxury gay space communism, but it’s a hell of a lot better than neoliberalism.

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          3 hours ago

          Turns out when you run a government like a corporation properly

          This is not what China has done though…

          Stop trying to launder this “run the government like a corporation” garbage

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            2 hours ago

            In the sense that they’re maximizing (tax) revenue by investing in infrastructure, maintaining a strict hierarchy, and so on, not the Reaganite destroying it and selling it off for parts.

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        8 hours ago

        It is indeed a weird mix in China, but I had not expected this one. Its a law that could be useful everywhere, even though it is hard to prove.

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      6 hours ago

      Of all place? Have you been living under a rock?